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FLORENCE ON A PATH OF
DESTRUCTION.
THE STORM MAKING LANDFALL, THEN
STALLING.
THE WIND HAS BEEN
FEROCIOUS, CONSISTENTLY FOR 24
HOURS.
THE STORM SURGE BRINGING
THE OCEAN INLAND.
WE 'TIL HAVE HOURS TO GO,
MORE RAIN, MORE FLOODING.
THAT IS THE OCEAN.
IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE
RIGHT NOW WONDERFUL WINDS
SNAPPING TREES LIKE TWIGS,
HUNDREDS WAITING FOR HELP.
IN THE MATTER OF SECONDS, IT
WAS TO THE WAIST, NOW TO THE
CHEST, WE ARE STUCK IN THE
ATTIC.
AT LEAST 5 PEOPLE ARE
CONFIRMED DEAD, A MOTHER AND
BABY ARE AMONG FLORENCE'S FIRST
FATALITY.
BOTH WERE KILLED AFTER A
TREE FELL ON THEIR HOME IN
WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA, AN
HOUR AGO IT WAS DOWNGRADED TO A
TROPICAL STORM, THE HEAVY RAIN
AND WINDS ARE RELENTLESS.
FLORENCE IS SITTING STILL
PONDING THE COAST.
OBVIOUSLY THE WIND PICKED UP
AGAIN THE PROBLEM THE RAIN WILL
NOT STOP, COULD GET ANOTHER
FOOT OR SO BEFORE IT IS FINALLY
OVER THE RAIN WILL GET SOFT
WHICH MEANS A LOT MORE TREES
WILL TOPPLE OVER.
DEVASTATED AFTER HER MOTHER AND
INFANT CHILD ARE KILLED WHEN
HURRICANE FLORENCE HITS
WILMINGTON, FIRE CREWS WORK FOR
A TREE, THE CHILD'S FATHER
SURVIVED.
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS BLEW
THROUGH WILMINGTON AS THE EYE
OF FLORENCE PASSED OVER,
BATTERING THE AREA.
THE TREES ARE SPLITTING ALL
OF THE LEAVES HAVE COME OFF OF
IT WHEN WE GOT UP IT LOOKED
LIKE WINTER BECAUSE THERE WAS
NO LEAVES ON THE TREE.
LAST NIGHT WHEN WE WENT TO BED
THERE WERE FULLY COVERED.
YOU CAN SEE THE POWER AND THE
WIND ON THE CAPE FEAR RIVER,
WHITE CAPS ON WHAT WAS
O'NORMALLY TRANQUIL WATER WAY.
ALSO BLEW THE ROOF OFF THE
HOUSE CREATING A BIG LEAK
INSIDE HE GOT CREATIVE MAKING A
SYSTEM TO CATCH THE WATER 90%
OF IT RAN IT OVER TO THE DRAIN.
CREWSWASTED NO TIME.
THE RIVER IS AT A RECORD HIGH,
IT IS FLOWING BACKWARDS AS
STORM SURGE PUSHED INLAND FROM
THE OCEAN, ALSO OVER FLOWING
THE BANKS FLOODING WATER
STREET.
I COME THROUGH SOME OF THE
OTHER HURRICANES, NEVER SEEN IT
THIS HIGH.
NEVER SEEN THE CAPE FEAR FLOW
THIS HIGH SOMETHING ELSE TO
KEEP IN MIND AND LOOK FOR, THE
CAPE FEAR RIVER HAS NOT
CRESTED, PROBABLY WON'T CREST
UNTIL TUESDAY, ALSO A LOT MORE
RAIN WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
LIVE IN WILMINGTON NORTH
CAROLINA.
ONE IS THE FLOODING AS WE
SAID THE STORM SURGE HAD WITHIN
CAUSING A PROBLEM ALREADY, BEEN
DOING THAT WITH THE CAPE FEAR
RIVER, WITH THIS RAIN THAT'S
GOING TO CAUSE EVEN MORE
FLOODING AREAS INLAND FURTHER
IN INLAND COMMUNITIES THAT'S A
BIG CONCERN.
ALSO THE POWER SO FAR MORE THAN
600,000 PEOPLE ARE WITHOUT
POWER THAT INCLUDES MOST OF
WILMINGTON.