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                                                                                                 U.S. NEWS Monday 17 SepteMber 2018






























            Flooding fears surge as rivers rise; Wilmington cut off




            Continued from Front         dead.  More  than  2.4  mil-  ties, plus beer.
                                         lion  people  were  evacu-   “I  have  everything  I  need
            In  Wilmington  ,  with  roads  ated  from  China’s  south-  for  my  whole  family,”  said
            leading  in  and  out  of  ern  Guangdong  province       Merlos.  Nearby,  a  Waffle
            the  city  underwater  and  ahead  of  the  massive  ty-  House  restaurant  limited
            streams  still  swelling  up-  phoon, the strongest to hit   breakfast customers to one
            ward,  residents  waited  for  the region in nearly two de-  biscuit  and  one  drink,  all
            hours  outside  stores  and  cades.  In  North  Carolina,   take-out, with the price of
            restaurants  for  basic  ne-  fears of what could be the   $2 per item.
            cessities  like  water.  Police  worst flooding in the state’s   Kenneth  Campbell  had
            guarded  the  door  of  one  history led officials to order   donned  waterproof  wad-
            store,  and  only  10  people  tens of thousands to evac-  ers intending to check out
            were  allowed  inside  at  a  uate, though it wasn’t clear   his  home  in  Lumberton  ,
            time.                        how many had fled or even    but he didn’t bother when
            Woody White, chairman of  could. The head of the Fed-     he  saw  the  Coast  Guard
            the board of commissioners  eral  Emergency  Manage-      and  murky  waters  in  his   Chicken  farm  buildings  are  inundated  with  floodwater  from
                                                                                                   Hurricane Florence near Trenton, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018.
            of  New  Hanover  County,  ment Agency, Brock Long,       neighborhood.q                                                        Associated Press
            said officials were planning  said officials were focused
            for  food  and  water  to  be  on finding people and res-
            flown  into  the  coastal  city  cuing them.
            of nearly 120,000 people.    “We’ll  get  through  this.
            “Our  roads  are  flooded,”  It’ll  be  ugly,  but  we’ll  get
            he said. “There is no access  through it,” Long told NBC’s
            to Wilmington.”              “Meet The Press.”
            About 70 miles (115 kilome-  President  Donald  Trump
            ters) away from the coast,  said  federal  emergency
            residents  near  the  Lumber  workers,  first  responders
            River  stepped  from  their  and  law  enforcement  of-
            homes  directly  into  boats  ficials  were  “working  really
            floating in their front yards;  hard.” As the storm “begins
            river  forecasts  showed  the  to  finally  recede,  they  will
            scene  could  be  repeated  kick  into  an  even  higher
            in towns as far as 250 miles  gear. Very Professional!” he
            (400  kilometers)  inland  as  declared in a tweet.
            waters rise for days.        The  storm’s  death  toll
            Downgraded  overnight  to  climbed  to  at  least  17
            a  tropical  depression,  Flor-  when  a  3-month-old  child
            ence  was  still  massive.  But  was  killed  when  a  tree  fell
            with  radar  showing  parts  across  a  mobile  home  in
            of the storm over six South-  North  Carolina.  Earlier,  of-
            eastern  states  and  flood  ficials  said  three  people
            worries   spreading    into  died in separate, weather-
            southern Virginia and West  related traffic accidents in
            Virginia,  North  and  South  South Carolina.
            Carolina  were  still  in  the  Victor  Merlos  was  over-
            bull’s-eye.                  joyed to find a store open
            Half way around the world,  for  business  in  Wilming-
            meanwhile,        Typhoon  ton  since  he  had  about
            Mangkhut  barreled  into  20  relatives  staying  at  his
            southern China on Sunday  apartment,  which  still  had
            after  lashing  the  Philip-  power. He spent more than
            pines with strong winds and  $500  on  cereal,  eggs,  soft
            heavy rain that left dozens  drinks  and  other  necessi-
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