Hurricane Irene hit the coast of North Carolina with winds ofup to one hundred and twenty kilometers an hour last Saturday.The storm weakened as it moved north. But Irene brought heavyrains and strong winds to the populated(人口稠密的) east coast.Hundreds of thousands of people were told to...
The 2023 seasonsaw its first major storm in late Augustwith Hurricane Franklin, a Category 4 hurricane that did not make landfall but still led to "life-threatening surf and rip current conditions" along the U.S. East Coast. That was followed byIdaliawhich hit Florida's Gulf Coast as a m...
A town in North Carolina that remained under floodwaters for days after Hurricane Matthew just two years ago is now bracing for another powerful storm. Sep 15, 2018, 1:35 AM 'It's like a bomb has gone off here': Stranded residents hunker down as Florence hammers NC First responders ...
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Why natural disasters hit harder in rural school districts A week after Hurricane Sandy flooded New York City's streets and subways in 2012, the city's schools were back in business. But schools in rural North Carolina did not reopen until almost a month after Hurricane Helene roared ... ...
The usually busy tourist season in Wilmington, a port city in east North Carolina, ended abruptly this year after Florence made landfall nearby in mid-September as a Category 1 hurricane. It brought in strong winds and record-breaking rainfall and caused devastatation that scared many local resid...
Progress Energy, the local electrical utility, projected 125,000 customers throughout coastal North Carolina were without power. Warren Lee, New Hanover County's director of emergency management, said the county was still evaluating damage in the Wilmington area but that, "We fared pretty well, gi...
A group of coal miners from West Virginia helped rebuild a road in North Carolina that was destroyed by Hurricane Helene. Tropics Headlines Tropical storm battering Philippines leaves at least 24 people dead in flooding and landslides Updated: Oct. 24, 2024 at 6:51 PM GMT+8 ...
"It is no exaggeration to describe Helene as the deadliest and most damaging storm ever to hit North Carolina," Cooper said while unveiling his request to the General Assembly for $3.9 billion to help pay for repairs and revitalization. He called it a "down payment on western North Car...
Hundreds of thousands of households in North Carolina remain without power days after the storm hit, according to PowerOutage.us. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing. Much of the rain fell on mountain communities with only one or two roads leading in or out, meaning that ...