The plan was to pack up their four children, the two international exchange students who are living with them and their golden retriever, and drive the 130 miles from their home in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Raleigh. Then they learned that Raleigh likely wouldn’t be spared from Hurricane Florence’s damage. The Warners thought about going north to Richmond, Virginia, about four hours away, but decided that wasn’t a safe bet either. “We just made the decision that we were going to ride it out,” Maggie Warner told HuffPost by phone. The hurricane is expected to bombard coastal areas with torrential rain and high winds, with the eye of the storm likely landing near Wilmington on Friday.

Source: Huffington Post September 13, 2018 23:37 UTC