NJ Town Wants To Help ‘Fellow Lumbertonians’ After Hurricane Matthew

The death toll from Hurricane Matthew has risen to 20 in North Carolina.

“You may wish to obtain an estimate from their contractor but you are not under any obligation to use them”, CFA said. Others were airlifted from rooftops. Almost 3,400 people remain in shelters, though mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect for several parts of the state.

“We want you to evacuate these low-lying areas absolutely and immediately”, Kinston Mayor BJ Murphy told WITN-TV. “The time to get out is now”.

The deadly hurricane that wreaked havoc in the US from Florida to North Carolina has the potential to generate $45 million to $65 million in revenue and 15 cents a share to 30 cents a share in earnings for Generac, wrote Keybanc analyst Jeffrey Hammond in a note issued Thursday.

Flores said she and her husband do not have flood insurance and lack the savings to buy a new home if their trailer is flooded. Pat McCrory today noted that new flooding from rising river levels will create challenges in several eastern counties.

In the 1999 floods, much of the town founded in 1865 sat under up to 11 feet of water for nine days. Eighty of the rescues have been from the air by the N.C. National Guard, State Highway Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard. They’re being collected by the officials of the town for their flood-ravaged sister city, Lumberton, North Carolina, which has been devastated by the swollen Lumber River. But he warned that recovery won’t happen overnight once the water recedes.

There have been 2,300 rescues performed since flooding in the hurricane’s aftermath forced people out of their homes.

Matthew killed more than 500 people in Haiti last week, plowing into the desperately poor country at 145 miles per hour.

Sections of Interstate 95 from Lumberton to Fayetteville remain closed due to flooding. I-40 near Newton Grove remains closed and USA 70 in Kinston is closed.

Matthew’s flooding in North Carolina was made worse by heavy rains in September. The Tar River is now cresting, while others are starting to recede.

The governor was visiting one of the areas hit hard by flooding, but he called the residents in Robeson County “the most resilient citizens I have ever met”.

Kinston resident Toby Hatch, 60, who lived through Floyd and Hurricane Irene, which destroyed his home in 2011, heeded the city’s evacuation order this week and headed to a shelter. The fearsome storm then sideswiped hundreds of miles of the USA coastline from Florida through Georgia and the Carolinas, its eye staying far enough offshore that the damage in many places along the coast was relatively modest, consisting mostly of flooded streets, flattened trees and blown-down signs and awnings.

“These are going to be our two worst houses actually”, he said, pointing to the rental house and one across the street. “The roads are all cut off”.

Hurricane Matthew has brought record flooding to some areas of SC. Wednesday, it was still possible to get to Mount Olive, but even that route was down to one lane, Rigney said.

Sgt. Courtney Setzer and Paramedic Sam Robinson were sent to Columbus County on Monday for a seven-day mission to relieve worn out paramedics, help with 911 calls and water rescue.

Two days after their narrow escape, Lawson and her children were at a shelter in Lumberton, pleading with strangers for a ride to the bus stop so they can go home.