Hurricane Florence from the field Sunday afternoon: Taking shelter in Robeson County
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"I hate to leave Freddie," she said, lifting the cloth that was draped over her beloved 2-year-old cockatiel. "He's my baby."
But Alford gathered some clothes, a sleeping bag and her favorite pillow and got in the van anyway. She left the bird at home in his cage with extra feed and water.
Following a circuitous route to avoid submerged roads, severed power lines and all but one fallen tree, the van eventually delivered her to
Alford was among the first handful of evacuees to arrive at the
Even if the frenetic work by city crews to fill in a railroad opening in the levee works, large swaths of south and west
By ordering people in low-lying areas to evacuate, emergency officials hope to avert the need for hundreds of water rescues, which happened when
Dozens of volunteer rescue teams were poised around
Members of the loosely affiliated "
"Walking through the place, people would call to you and just beg you, please don't leave me," Lenard said. "You know, we have all these trucks and boats and all this equipment, but sometimes the best thing you can do is kneel down, hold somebody's hand and pray with them."
He did that, Lenard said, and then helped evacuate the residents to local hospitals.
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"When I was a baby, my mother passed me through a window during the evacuation of Hurricane Hazel in 1954," Mariniello said.
On Sunday, she stood on the porch of her apartment in the
Mariniello lives less than a mile from the
As of Sunday afternoon, the river was at nearly 40 feet and expected to continue rising to more than 62 feet, according to the
Police came through Mariniello's neighborhood on Saturday, she said.
"They scared all of us," she said. "They came through with their speakers and told everyone that if they don't leave, no one will come back for you. No one will be able to rescue you."
Mariniello was at home with her two cats, plus another two she was keeping safe for people who were evacuating -- Stormy, Bogey, Peanut and Hope.
As of Sunday afternoon, Mariniello said she had no plans to evacuate, and was waiting to hear if she has to go to work. "A lot of people are staying," she said.
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A fifth shelter at
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Emergency officials and volunteers had been working throughout the morning to hold back the rising
A mandatory evacuation was issued for residents in south and west
Buses are picking people up now at two locations: Burger King at
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The new line of storms, running south of
The
"Road conditions are deteriorating quickly," the city tweeted Sunday morning. "We highly urge you to stay off the roads unless it's absolutely necessary."
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Triangle: Turning on the lights
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"They said the levee broke," Bethea said. On Twitter, officials were saying the levee, an earthen berm that tries to confine the
As a result, many neighborhoods on the city's south side had from a few inches of water to 3 feet or more standing around them. The roofs of dog houses stood above the water in some places. On
Bethea took the warning, packed a few things and got her car out of harm's way while she could. She planned to try to find a hotel room, a rare commodity in a city with so little electricity and so many storm refugees already.
Bethea was in the same home in
The owners of many of those homes have made no repairs while waiting to hear whether their property will be bought out. Federal programs aimed at reducing future flooding help buy floodprone homes and remove them, leaving the land undeveloped.
Flooding from now-Tropical Storm Florence had reached many of those rotting, vacant homes Sunday morning, flooding them and the homes that had been repaired and re-occupied.
The rain paused from
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Water was rushing over five "weirs" at the dam -- long protrusions that increase surface area of the water and slow it down.
Warner said she's in contact with engineer for the dam, who also inspected it, and regular updates on its status are going out.
Despite overnight concern that
"It's a tremendous amount of water. So many people think it already failed," she said.
Water normally flows over only two of the dam's five weirs. On Sunday, it rushed over all five, bulging over the first two more than over the others. The dam is connected to
But there was still room for more water on the weirs.
"People were worried and were calling, texting and Facebooking throughout the night," Warner said. "It was a rough night, worrying that we might have an issue. But I'm confident."
But as the
"We're hoping it keeps flowing and doesn't push water back up toward us," she said.
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