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Hurricane Florence roared toward the Southeast as officials warned the more than 1 million people in its path to get out of the way or face its wrath.

Duke Energy serves 4 million people in the Carolinas.

According to CNN, Florence’s center will approach the coasts of North and SC late Thursday and Friday, with the actual landfall expected to come on Friday afternoon.

The area to the north of Florence’s landfall along the North Carolina coast-storm surge is always worst to the “right” of a storm’s center, where its rotation pushes water onshore-is less populated and developed than the New Jersey and NY shores. The...

Residents near coastal areas like this have been given evacuation warnings, although Raleigh is a bit inland so Chantal Cooke Weaver and her family are going to remain at home to wait out the storm.

Here are some of the best images of Hurricane Florence by Gerst and Ricky Arnold, a fellow NASA astronaut who’s also living on board the ISS.

After Florence makes landfall, that ridge, now over Washington and NY, will move east – but be replaced by another one forming over the Great Lakes that will likely keep the storm stuck, McNoldy said. Its maximum sustained winds are expected to top 145 miles per hour before...

Hurricane Florence looks like it’s going to take a very slow path and dump tremendous rain across the southeast, in addition to bringing along coastal flooding and strong winds.

The hurricane warning was issued for issued from South Santee River, South Carolina, to Duck, North Carolina, and the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds.

The storm, as of Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EDT, has sustained maximum winds of 130 miles per hour, keeping it as a Category 4, and is still expected to be a major hurricane when it hits land.

Hurricane Florence is seen from the International Space Station as it churns in the Atlantic Ocean towards the east coast of the United States.

The “probable” forecast path for Florence, a Category 4 hurricane, as of 5 a.m. Wednesday showed the storm shifting further toward the southern North Carolina coast and the northern half of the SC coast, with the forecast cone stretching into Georgia, western North...

Cooper said local governments are typically responsible for issuing evacuation orders in North Carolina, and some localities have already issued orders to evacuate.

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South Carolina’s northern coast and North Carolina’s Outer Banks are expected to take the most direct hit if the hurricane keeps to the current forecast, according to news outlets.