BLADENBORO, North Carolina — Hurricane “Florence” is by no means done with the Carolinas, where some rivers are still rising and thousands of people were told to plan to leave their homes on Monday before rivers reach their crest. In North Carolina, five river gauges still showed major flood stage levels and five others were at moderate flood stage, according to the National Weather Service. Video showed firefighters blasting the dead fish off the highway with a fire hose in Pender County in eastern North Carolina. “Florence continues to bring misery to North Carolina,” Cooper said in a statement Sunday evening. North Carolina environmental officials also said they’re closely monitoring two sites where Florence’s floodwaters have inundated coal ash sites.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 24, 2018 10:52 UTC