Hurricane Florence from the field Sunday: Watching the rain and the rivers rise
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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
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 Florence's floodwaters could compromise the dam, Warner said she's confident it will hold.
"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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