Matthew’s punch still delivers pain to North Carolina

The roads that are open and usable are backed up with traffic.

On Oct. 8 at 3:58 a.m. EDT (758 UTC) NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Matthew and measured cloud-top temperatures.

The flooding extended to SC, where 150 people had to be rescued Monday from the tiny town of Nichols, downstream from Lumberton. As he puts it, “We were definitely blessed”. Her brother told her the water was now waist-deep in the house.

Industrial air conditioning units were rushed in from around the country, after the roof came off the building that serves as the electric room for air conditioning throughout the main launch area.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory will update residents on how the state is doing after Hurricane Matthew.

Bonds tied to weather risks fell the most in four years, with the Swiss Re Cat Bond Price Return Index dropping 1.7 percent this week. By Friday, that water is expected to flood more than 200 structures in the town of Burgaw, about 75 miles downriver. Officials had ordered evacuations for the towns of Vass and Spring Lake, near the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg, on Monday night because of a leak, CNN affiliate WTVD-TV reported.

The hurricane killed hundreds of people in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean, and more than two dozen people in the USA have died as a result of the storm, The Associated Press reports.

While North Carolina residents struggle with flooding, the storm that caused it has headed out to sea and dissipated. “Probably the most expensive impacts of the storm are still coming”.

Gordon said the trooper saw the gun and shot the man.

Ten people were killed in North Carolina, up from an earlier count of eight people, North Carolina Gov. All but one have involved motor vehicles.

“We missed the bullet there”, he said.

While power was being restored in some areas, about 1.1 million people were without power in Florida, Georgia, North and SC and Virginia, down from Sunday’s peak of 2.2 million.

Some of the most extreme rainfall totals included more than 17.5 inches in Savannah, GA; 14 inches in Beaufort, SC and almost 13 inches in Chesapeake, Virginia. Bluffton Lisa Watton said she didn’t hesitate when the governor issued evacuation orders.

At peak intensity, Matthew was a Category 5 hurricane.

The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting.

About 150 people were rescued by boats from flooding in the riverside village of Nichols on Monday while across SC the oceanfront hamlet of Edisto Beach began the long work of recovering from what officials called the worst hurricane hit in nearly 40 years.

One in Sampson County on Saturday when a male driver hydroplaned his vehicle and struck a tree. Two others were found submerged in their cars. That brings the overall US death toll from the storm to at least 21.

In Florida, the powerful hurricane killed four people.

After receiving as much as 18 inches (39 cm) of rain from Matthew over the weekend, North Carolina’s skies were clear on Monday, but raging rivers and breached levees posed major problems. More than 47,000 utility customers remained without power in the state Tuesday morning, according to local reports. That’s down from about 400,000 late Monday and down from the total of about 850,000 customers who lost power during last weekend’s storm. It could take up to a week to completely restore power.

But officials warned the pace would slow significantly in the next few days as crews start to work on coastal areas where there was major damage to the power grid.

Deputy Public Safety Director Scott Brooks said that crews worked until about 2 a.m. Tuesday to get sandbags in place to reduce the threat at Woodlake Dam near Vass. “I told them, ‘Guys, this is barely a 1, keep this in mind, ‘ ” Sinclair said.

Brooks says he doesn’t know how quickly that inspection can occur.

State resources are stretched to their limit, McCrory said.

Florida reported four deaths from Matthew, and Georgia and SC reported three each. He will tour the damage in Fayetteville Monday afternoon.

The recruits were moved for their safety in the days before Hurricane Matthew hit SC, though the future Marines were able to continue “limited training” at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany in Georgia, Carroll said.

Rescue workers saved 150 people from the third floor of town hall after rising flood waters swamped a tiny SC town. Rescue efforts were still in progress as of Tuesday. They say other rivers won’t crest until later in the week. The storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early Saturday morning just southeast of McClellanville, South Carolina.