Gov. Pat McCrory warned that the state’s priority is to keep evacuation routes clear.

Police in Fayetteville, North Carolina are searching for four missing people as the state endures severe flooding as a result of the storm.

Matthew slammed into Haiti on October 7 with 145 mile-per-hour winds and sheets of rains that left 1.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

Finger called 911 around 10 p.m. Sunday when water reached her knees.

In the tiny town of Nichols, South Carolina, downstream from Lumberton, at least 100 people spent the night on the third floor of the town hall waiting to be rescued.

“Never did I think we would have this much rain”, he said. One 66-year-old man near Columbia, South Carolina, died at a nursing facility when he got pinned under his electric wheelchair in water after the heavy rains. It is a minimum-security prison that houses adult male inmates. The death toll in North Carolina has jumped to 14 from 11, Gov.

The damage from Hurricane Matthew continues to devastate North Carolina, with the state experiencing massive flooding. Some of the rescues included people being pulled off of rooftops and a nurse found clinging to a tree in the flood waters.

The man’s identity hasn’t been released. The power company said it now has to rebuild parts of the electrical system. The work would need to be inspected before residents could return home.

As of Monday morning, there had been two storm-related deaths reported in the state.

Authorities went door-to-door to let about 500 people in the Black River Basin know a mandatory evacuation had been ordered, the Pender County government said Tuesday.

Former Folly Beach mayor Richard Beck discovered the 15 cannonballs while taking pictures of the damage caused by the storm that wreaked havoc across the state over the weekend.

After cutting a deadly swath across the Caribbean and leaving more than 300 dead in Haiti, the Category Four storm was to crash up against the southeastern United States early in the morning.

Powers told reporters that Matthew’s effect on the town is “worse than we ever thought it would be”. Of those, about 300,000 customers are in North Carolina and around 100,000 were in SC.

Matthew has brought torrential rain and widespread flooding, as well as powerful winds and storm surges, to several Caribbean nations, the Bahamas and the southeastern United States and been blamed for hundreds of deaths, a lot of them in the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti.

Georgia Power reports that about 75,000 of its customers remained without power Tuesday morning.

“Get out now“, the governor said Tuesday morning.

The restoration of power after Hurricane Matthew pounded North Carolina is improving. There have been more than 700 swift water rescues in Cumberland County alone.

“There’s been a really serious hurricane”, President Barack Obama said Sunday.

Palmetto Bay Marina in SC took a major hit from Hurricane Matthew, local CBS affiliate WLTX19 reported.

One Johnson County resident person is missing, he said. The original pier was washed away during Hurricane Floyd and rebuilt a few years later, the station said.

But waterways haven’t crested in some areas, including the Tar River at Greenville, an east-central North Carolina city with about 89,000 people.

During the storm water rushed through streets, making roadways look more like rivers in parts of Jacksonville, Merritt Island, Fleming Island and other Florida communities. 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.

McCrory said one of the most recent deaths was in Johnson County, where a auto drove into flooded waters and was swept away. “But in Savannah, Chatham County Chairman Al Scott is warning them not to just yet, because he says conditions in many areas are still not safe”. More than 400,000 in SC remained in the dark, in addition to over 308,000 in Florida and 204,000 in Virginia.

On Monday, volunteers, USA marshals and water-rescue crews used helicopters, boats and massive trucks to save people stranded in Lumberton, N.C., after the Lumber River burst its banks, the Associated Press said.

The priority is to evacuate those people, the governor said, urging residents to exercise caution when riding through flooded areas and reminding them that several swamped roads and highways are still closed.

The National Weather Service said “life-threatening flooding”, will continue Monday over eastern portions of the state.

Hurricane Matthew damage in the southeastern USA, posted on Facebook.

Today in Lumberton, NC., 1,500 people were trapped by high water. some on the roofs of buildings.

That’s down from 625,000 on Sunday and about 825,000 at the height of the storm.

More than 469,000 SC customers didn’t have power Monday, Gov. Nikki Haley said.

North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety offers additional tips on how to safely remove trees and limbs from homes.

4 locations are at an all-time record flood this evening in North Carolina. SBCV feeding teams and flood recovery teams remain on standby to assist in North Carolina and SC.

Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007, was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Sunday after its rampage through the Caribbean killed 1,000 people in Haiti.