Catastrophic flooding from Florence spread across the Carolinas this weekend, with roads to Wilmington cut off by the epic deluge and muddy river water swamping entire neighborhoods miles inland. "The risk to life is rising with the angry waters," Gov. Roy Cooper declared as the storm's death toll continued to climb.
The deadly storm still had abundant rain and top winds around 30 mph (50 kph) early Monday, and forecasters said it was expected to gradually pick up forward speed and complete a big turn toward the Northeast, which is in for as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rain.
In some places, the rain stopped after Florence moved on, and the sun peeked through, but North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper urged residents who were evacuated from the hardest-hit areas to stay away because of closed roads and flooding.
"There's too much going on," he told a news conference.
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Mayor Billy Hammond and other town leaders came up with a dramatic plan to address repeat flooding: build a whole new downtown-style commercial district a few blocks up the street on higher ground.
A program is funded by federal dollars and housed in Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration has finished only 1,163 projects so far, even though it's been nearly five years since Hurricane Florence.
North Carolina lawmakers rebuked on Wednesday the state's disaster recovery director — with one calling for her removal — for the agency's slow progress amid years-long delays that have left some low-income homeowners in temporary lodging for up to six years after hurricanes Matthew and Florence displaced them.
Hundreds of families are still displaced from their homes years after Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. Some families have been living in hotels for years waiting for repairs to start.