Tropical Storm Florence deluged North and South Carolina with “epic” amounts of rain as it trudged inland on Saturday, knocking out power and leaving at least 13 people dead. Florence’s intensity has diminished since it roared ashore along the US mid-Atlantic coast on Friday as a hurricane. But its slow march over the two states, crawling west at only 2 miles per hour (3 km per hour), is expected to leave large parts of the region deluged in the coming days. “This system is unloading epic amounts of rainfall, in some places measured in feet and not inches,” North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper told a news briefing. His state has already endured record rainfall, with much more forecast to come. Rivers will continue to rise days after the rain has stopped, he said. An aerial shot of flooding in New Bern, North Carolina ( Image: REUTERS) Residents help an elderly man evacuate a flooding trailer community in Lumberton, North Carolina ( Image: REUTERS) Flood waters lap at a high water warning sign on Oak Island, North Carolina ( Image: REUTERS) “This is a hurricane event followed by a flood event,” said South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster. With flood waters advancing… Read full this story
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