“I will never ever ever stay through this” again, said Jeanette Rivera, calling from the third floor of a home “surrounded by the ocean.”A Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, woman stranded in her home a day after Hurricane Florence made landfall shared her regret with the “Today” show Saturday. Sneads Ferry, NC, resident Jeanette Rivera and her husband decided not to evacuate amid #Florence and now their home is surrounded by water. "I will never ever ever (again) stay through this," she tells @SheinelleJones and @PeterAlexander of her sense of regret. pic.twitter.com/lxgpvIzyUVThe resident of Sneads Ferry, a coastal town about 30 miles from where Florence first hit land, explained why she and her husband decided to stick it out rather than evacuate. “We thought it was going to be like [Hurricane] Matthew,” Rivera said, referring to the 2016 storm that caused flooding in eastern North Carolina.

Source: Huffington Post September 15, 2018 17:03 UTC