Death toll from Hurricane Florence at 31; storm moving away from North, South Carolina
World | September 18, 2018 9:45 ISTNearly 5,00,000 people remained without electricity, while hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes.
Nearly 5,00,000 people remained without electricity, while hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes.
Authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of up to 7,500 people living within a mile (1.6 kilometers) of a stretch of the Cape Fear River and the Little River.
The core of Tropical Storm Florence is now drifting westward over South Carolina, threatening more flash floods and major river flooding.
The mother and her baby were killed when a tree fell on a house, according to a tweet from Wilmington police.
Forecasters said conditions will only get more lethal as the storm smashes ashore early Friday near the North Carolina-South Carolina line and crawls slowly inland.
Faced with new forecasts that showed a more southerly threat, Georgia’s governor joined his counterparts in Virginia and North and South Carolina in declaring a state of emergency, and some residents who had thought they were safely out of range boarded up their homes.
The maximum sustained winds of the storm have dropped slightly to 110 mph (175 kph), but the storm continues being a catastrophic Category 3 storm as it heads towards North and South Carolina.
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