Before and after the North Carolina floods

She hopes they would be eligible for assistance from FEMA. She says she’s been crying, but she feels lucky to be staying with friends.

The mother and her five children managed to escape, but they lost nearly everything.

But the rest of Windsor was surrounded by muddy water.

N.C. Peanut Growers Association CEO Bob Sutter said last year was a down year for peanut farmers and another bad season could be “devastating”.

Vegetative debris from residents’ homes will be collected on the regular yard waste collection day through the end of the month. “Water started coming in, things were flying everywhere.no one could get hold of them”, explains Dicejour Gelin, 13. “Well, considering what happened weeks prior with the rain and combined with this, Mother Nature’s at its best”, said Lamont England, who was trying Sunday to get to his parents’ home in Fayetteville. “I’m just lucky to be here. I’m praying that is not going to be”, McCrory said. “My father also told me, but I was very scared when the roof fell over our heads”, says Renelson.

“If you know someone living in these areas, please plead with them to get out”, Murphy added.

Governor Pat McCrory said 19 people had died, mostly drownings.

Officials are also anxious that Hurricane Matthew and the subsequent floods have jeopardized crops in the state.

Volunteer firefighters drove their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into dark floodwaters, after torrents from Hurricane Matthew sent the Lumber River overflowing its banks on North Carolina’s coastal plain. For people stuck in shelters, McCrory said the state is working with Walmart to get long-term prescriptions to people who need their medicine.

An apartment complex near the Tar River in Greenville, N.C., is seen surrounded by floodwaters on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016.

“I can not stress (enough) to people, especially on the Tar River”.

McCrory said in a statement citizens should continue to exercise caution in the aftermath of the storm. Flooding has killed up to 5 million poultry birds, a lot of them chickens, in a blow to the local economy, said North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Donald van der Vaart. The declaration allows federal aid to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts. “I am impressed with the resiliency and spirit of the people here, and am inspired by the tales of heroism of rescue workers who helped evacuate people from high water”.

Van der Vaart said he did not know how many pits had been inundated.

While some areas are beginning to recover from the flooding, other areas are about to be hit. Several preachers and town leaders prayed for the waters to not rise any higher and for town unity in these tough times.

Officials were concerned that other cities could suffer the fate of Lumberton, a community of 22,000 people about 80 miles from the ocean.

While the Tarheel state has begun to address its wounds from the hurricane, more flooding is expected. He called the county the greatest challenge the state has right now because the utilities are disrupted and there are still people to be rescued.

Authorities say Hunt became hostile toward the officers and displayed a handgun.

The trooper identified as J. F. Hinson was placed on administrative duties.

Hurricane Matthew killed more than 500 people in Haiti and at least 27 in the USA – more than half of them in North Carolina.

Matthew – the most powerful hurricane to threaten the Atlantic seaboard in more than a decade – set off alarms as it closed in on the US, triggering evacuation orders covering at least two million people.

The latest crisis is the fear of another cholera outbreak, such as the one that occurred after the devastating 2010 quake, which caused the deaths of 10,000 people, the BBC reported.