Hurricane Florence Saturday live updates: Rescues and warnings
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Now, her path blocked, she walked out of her car and heard the cries of dogs from a nearby house. They were barking and whimpering, she said, making noise befitting of their situation -- some trapped inside, others in a kennel outside, while the floodwaters rose around them.
"We could hear them," said Casey, who lives in
And so with the help of her family, a jet ski and some jon boats on loan from others who joined the effort, Casey led an impromptu dog rescue in a region of the state that is now fearing historic flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. For about 90 minutes, people went to the flooded house and returned to safety with groups of dogs, many of whom were soaked and shaking. They saved 18 dogs.
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Raleigh: Interstate drivers asked to avoid N.C.
A stretch of
The number of primary roads closed Saturday increased from 60 to 100 in a few hours, Trogdon said.
"It has been increasingly difficult to find bypass routes for interstate traffic," he said.
All drivers should stay off roads south of
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Raleigh,
There are also 18 Raleigh firefighters who specialize in structural collapse rescues set to leave Saturday night or Sunday morning. And four members of
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"As long as my dogs are all right, I'm fine," she told her friends who called to check on her.
Then, Saturday morning, her 7-year-old pit bull, Snoop -- never sick a day in his life -- lay nearly motionless on the floor.
"His tongue and his gums were pure white," she said.
From caring for an anemic goat on her friend
Trouble was, by mid-day Saturday, the
Lewis, who turned 84 Saturday, wasn't scared of more than two feet of water. He drove a tractor with oversized wheels across the breach and delivered the medicine into Floyd's hands. She looked like she might cry.
She hugged Lewis's neck and thanked him.
"You saved my dog's life," she told him.'
"Well, we'll try," he said.
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"I saw a lot of siding off of houses, and some shingles, that kind of thing," Sanders said. "There was eight or 10 inches of water across the road where it's low, but it always flood there. This is about what we always see with a big storm."
Sanders said when he saw it Friday, the pier looked fine, and on Saturday he periodically checked the web cam at oceancrestpiernc.com, and everything looked ok.
But the forecast is for continued rain and wind through Sunday.
"Give us another 24 hours of this, and see how it looks," Sanders said. "That's what I'm worried about."
On the mainland, the mercurial storm continued to tease residents mid-day Saturday. Skies would darken and the rain would fall so hard, utility trucks on the road faced near-whiteout conditions. Then it would lighten and the rain would taper, though never quite stop.
Trees continued to drop onto highways;
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After two days in darkness, the city saw electricity return to a two-block grid on
As doors opened at
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A photo of
Simmons recounted his story on Friday while a kitten peered through the top of his rain jacket. Simmons had taken the animal with him on the boat. The kitten clung to Simmons, as if a newborn clinging to his mother, and while Simmons spoke, the kitten mewed.
"We done been through Bertha, Fran, Irene, Matthew," he said on Friday afternoon, sitting in the small boat and ticking off the names of hurricanes that had come through his part of eastern
Read more about the flood, Simmons and the kitten.
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Friday afternoon an alligator was spotted in the Osprey Cove neighborhood off of S.C. 707 and filmed by resident
"Well, hurricane update," she says in the video. "We have an alligator. Run gator, run!; Run from Florence."
The gator is seen crossing the road and running into a ditch as the effects from Hurricane Florence are felt in the area.
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