Hurricane Matthew’s US death toll reaches 43

In Virginia, officials today confirmed to ABC News the state’s second storm-related death, saying that a Suffolk man who disappeared during Hurricane Matthew was found dead on October 12. Most businesses are doing the right things, some of them aren’t. and I’d say to North Carolinians, let’s all pitch in and help.

Joint Task Force Matthew distributes relief supplies to hurricane-stricken areas. It was a cruel fate for an economically depressed town historically saddled with an unemployment rate nearly twice that of the state.

Donald van der Vaart, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, also told Reuters that some pits that hold hog waste on farms had been inundated with floodwaters. Pat McCrory said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. “Some of these people have nothing”. “They are sitting right now in high school gyms”. Many residents had no place to go and have been living in shelters for days, he said.

The popular Covington variety is resilient against excessive water, which growers dealt with in the aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. “I know what they’re going through”.

Almost 3,400 people are in shelters throughout the state, McCrory said this morning.

Since then, the Hymans have been sleeping in their SUV, waiting for the waters to recede and hoping their home will be ready to welcome them back at some point.

North Carolina’s is going to take a long, long time.

McCrory said the death toll rose by two on Thursday as one man fell into a hole created by an uprooted tree in Robeson County and another man died after driving his vehicle around a barricade on a closed road and into a washout.

“We need to look at these classifications because the current classifications mislead”.

The saturated ground could not absorb any of the rain, leading to immediate flash flooding and excessive runoff into swollen rivers and streams. Flooding and rising rivers continue to pose a threat to central and eastern North Carolina counties including Lenoir, Robeson and Cumberland. Driving was hard, if not impossible because hundreds of roads were closed, in some cases isolating entire towns. N.C. Department of Transportation officials closed USA 70 near Kinston last night, due to rapidly rising flood waters, but a detour is in place.

There has been bits of good news. State officials, including Kemp, said residents in the affected areas had many other ways to register, including online.

Utility outage maps show that about 93,000 customers across the state remained without power Thursday morning.

“We have no reports of any breaches of the lagoons, but 11 where the floodwaters came into the lagoon, flooding from the outside in”, Hawco explained. “That is incredibly positive news”.

On Monday, requests for installation of new windows were up 133 percent in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, compared with the same day past year, according to HomeAdvisor, a website that connects homeowners with service professionals.

As North Carolinians pitch in to help, Cooper encourages residents to donate wisely when helping those devastated by the storm.

Stephens says it all started so quietly last weekend.

Hawco says at this point, they have had no true “breaches”.

But he has been heartened by the response of his community.

“Very close to the deadline, we have a lot of people scurrying”, Butler said. “But citizens have been incredible”.