Travel still dangerous in flooded areas of North Carolina
BLADENBORO, N.C. (AP) - Travel remained dangerous Saturday in southeastern North Carolina, where the 知事 警告するd of "背信の" 洪水s more than a week after ハリケーン Florence made landfall, and 勧めるd 居住（者）s to stay 警報 for flood 警告s and 避難／引き上げ orders.
Gov. Roy Cooper said nine of the 明言する／公表する's river 計器s are at major flood 行う／開催する／段階 and four others are at 穏健な 行う／開催する／段階, while parts of Interstates 95 and 40 will remain underwater for another week or more. 緊急 管理／経営 公式の／役人s said 居住（者）s whose homes were 損失d or destroyed will begin moving into hotel rooms next week.
"ハリケーン Florence has 深く，強烈に 負傷させるd our 明言する／公表する, 負傷させるs that will not fade soon as the flood waters finally recede," Cooper said.
Flooding from Sutton Lake has washed away part of U.S. 421 in New Hanover 郡 just south of the Pender 郡 line in Wilmington, N.C., Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Matt Born /The 星／主役にする-News 経由で AP)
South Carolina also h as ordered more 避難／引き上げs as rivers continue to rise in the 影響 of a 嵐／襲撃する that has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd at least 43 lives since slamming into the coast more than a week ago.
The small farming community of Nichols, South Carolina, about 40 miles (65 キロメーターs) from the coast, was 完全に inundated by water, 市長 Lawson 乱打する said Saturday. He called the 状況／情勢 "worse than Matthew," the 2016 ハリケーン that destroyed almost 90 パーセント of the town's 261 homes. 戦う／戦い said flooding from Florence has wiped out the 150 or so homes rebuilt afterward.
"It's just a mess," said 戦う／戦い, who was を待つing a visit from Gov. Henry McMaster. "We will try everything we can to come 支援する ... but we need to have 連邦の and 明言する／公表する help."
Benetta White and David Lloyd were の中で 100 people 救助（する）d with ヘリコプターs, boats and high-wheeled 軍の 乗り物s during a six-hour 操作／手術 in southeastern North Carolina's Bladen 郡 that lasted into Friday morning - their second 避難／引き上げ in a week. White and Lloyd, who live in the North Carolina town of Kelly, were given little time Thursday night to 避難させる when the Cape 恐れる River （機の）カム 急ぐing の上に their 所有物／資産／財産. By the time they 負担d their 先頭, they had to slog through waist-high, foul-smelling water to get to a neighbor's 好転.
From there, they went to the town's 解雇する／砲火／射撃 department and were taken by an Army トラックで運ぶ to a 避難所 at a Bladen 郡 high school.
"We had to 避難させる again, all over again, and got 罠にかける in a bunch of water and almost lost our lives," said White.
In Wilmington, where ハリケーン Florence made landfall and which had been 削減（する） off by 洪水s, 公式の／役人s said they'd identified three 安全な 大勝するs into town. They encouraged people to 避ける travel in areas where the 危険 of flooding remains.
North Carolina 緊急 管理／経営 Director Michael Sprayberry said Saturday that eastern 郡s continue to see major flooding, 含むing areas along the 黒人／ボイコット, 板材, Neuse and Cape 恐れる rivers. The Cape 恐れる riv er is 推定する／予想するd to crest Sunday and remain at flood 行う／開催する／段階 through 早期に next week.
He said 居住（者）s who 登録（する） with the 連邦の 緊急 管理／経営 機関 can begin moving into hotels Monday. The program 最初 will be open to 居住（者）s in nine 郡s, then will be 拡大するd. A FEMA 調整者／コーディネーター said about 69,000 people from North Carolina already have 登録（する）d for 援助.
North Carolina 環境の 公式の／役人s said they're closely 監視するing two 場所／位置s where Florence's 洪水s have inundated coal ash 場所／位置s .
The 明言する／公表する is using drones to get photos and ビデオ of a dam 違反 at the L.V. Sutton 力／強力にする 駅／配置する in Wilmington, where gray muck has been seen flowing into the Cape 恐れる River, and at the H.F. 物陰／風下 力／強力にする 工場／植物 近づく Goldsboro, said Michael Regan, 長官 of the North Carolina Department of 環境の 質.
He said Saturday that the ビデオ and photos show sand and "可能性のある coal ash" leaving the Sutton 場所／位置, and the DEQ will put people on the ground when it is 安全な. He said that DEQ staff has seen that coal ash left the 水盤／入り江 and entered flood waters at the H.F. 物陰／風下 工場／植物, and is trying to 決定する "how much of that, if any" has entered into the Neuse River.
In Conway, South Carolina, water from the Waccamaw river began flowing into a Santee Cooper ash pond. The company said in a 声明 that the overtopping occurred Saturday morning, but no 重要な 環境の 衝撃 was 推定する／予想するd because nearly all of the ash had been excavated from the pond.
The 国家の 天候 Service 確認するd Saturday that 10 トルネード，竜巻s spawned by ハリケーン Florence touched 負かす／撃墜する Monday in Virginia, the strongest of which leveled a 床に打ち倒すing company in Chesterfied and killed one 労働者.
An 経済的な 研究 会社／堅い 概算の that ハリケーン Florence has 原因（となる）d around $44 billion in 損失 and lost 生産（高）, which would make it one of the 最高の，を越す 10 costliest U.S. ハリケーンs. The 最高の，を越す 災害, ハリケーン Katrina in 2005, cost $192.2 billion in today's dollars, while last year's ハリケーン Harvey cost $133.5 billion
Moody's Analytics 見積（る）s Florence has 原因（となる）d $40 billion in 損失 and $4 billion in lost 経済的な 生産（高）, though the company 強調する／ストレスd that the 見積（る） is 予選 and could go higher or lower.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has 概算の 損失 from the flood in his 明言する／公表する at $1.2 billion. He asked congressional leaders to hurry 連邦の 援助（する）.
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Waggoner and Robertson 報告（する）／憶測d from Raleigh, North Carolina. Also 与える／捧げるing to this 報告（する）／憶測 were Associated 圧力（をかける） writers Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Dee-Ann Durbin in Detroit; Chevel Johnson in New Orleans; Meg Kinnard in Galivants フェリー（で運ぶ）, South Carolina; Denise Lavoie in Richmond, Virginia; Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Alabama; Michael Biesecker in Washington and Tammy Webber in Chicago.
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A road is flooded from ハリケーン Florence in the Avondale community in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Matt Born /The 星／主役にする-News 経由で AP)
Benetta White and David Lloyd sit after escaping their flooded yard to escape ハリケーン Florence's 最新の life-脅すing punch in Bladenboro, N.C., Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. This was their second 避難／引き上げ in a week. They were の中で 100 people 救助（する）d with ヘリコプターs, boats and high-wheeled 軍の 乗り物s during a six-hour 救助（する） 操作／手術 in southeastern North Carolina's Bladen 郡 that lasted into Friday morning. (AP Photo/Alan Suderman)
A 調印する 祝う／追悼するing the 再構築するing of the town of Nichols, which was flooded two years earlier from ハリケーン Matthew, stands in 洪水s in the 影響 of ハリケーン Florence in Nichols, S.C., Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. 事実上 the entire town is once again flooded and inaccessible except by boat. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A swift recuse boat モーターs through 洪水s in the 影響 of ハリケーン Florence in Nichols, S.C., Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. 事実上 the entire town is flooded and inaccessible except by boat, just two years after it was flooded by ハリケーン Matthew. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
FILE- In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018 とじ込み／提出する photo, part of the Starlite Motel is washed away in the 影響 of flooding from ハリケーン Florence in Spring Lake, N.C. Florence washed away half the rooms at the Starlite Motel ripping away the 暮らし of a family that bought it in 最近の months. (AP Photo/David Goldman, とじ込み／提出する.)
Volunteer Johnnie Evans brings a wagon of water to cleanup 乗組員s helping with the grisly 仕事 of 除去するing 嵐／襲撃する 損失d 所持品, spoiled food and soaked furniture at Trent 法廷，裁判所 Apartments in New Bern, N.C., Se pt. 21, 2018. ハリケーン Florence brought 嵐／襲撃する 殺到するs which 洪水d from the Trent River and 軍隊d many 居住（者）s of Trent 法廷，裁判所 to 避難させる. (Gray Whitley / Sun 定期刊行物 経由で AP)
Professional 災害 回復 services work to cleanup 嵐／襲撃する 損害賠償金 at the New Bern Grande Marina ヨット Club in New Bern, N.C., Sept. 21, 2018. ハリケーン Florence brought destructive flooding to areas in the waterfront 商売／仕事 地区. (Gray Whitley / Sun 定期刊行物 経由で AP)
Cleanup 乗組員s work to 除去する 嵐／襲撃する 損失d 所持品, spoiled food and soaked furniture at Trent 法廷，裁判所 Apartments in New Bern, N.C., Sept. 21, 2018. ハリケーン Florence brought 嵐／襲撃する 殺到する which 洪水d from the Trent River and 軍隊d many 居住（者）s of Trent 法廷，裁判所 to 避難させる. (Gray Whitley / Sun 定期刊行物 経由で AP)
