Hurricane Florence Saturday live updates: Rescues, floods and compassion
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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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Kitten clings for life as man awaits rescue from Florence. The cat's name says it all.
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5 dead in NC as Florence, an 'uninvited brute,' brings heavy flooding and power outages
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Damage from Florence? Here's how to file an insurance claim.
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Florence already drops record rainfall. Here are some of the numbers from NC, SC
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