Joseph Rushmore for HuffPost Crews work to reinforce a temporary berm with tractor loads of dirt in an attempt to stop more flooding the the already inundated town of Lumberton, North Carolina on Sunday. LUMBERTON, North Carolina — In the days before Hurricane Florence struck, officials and residents here scrambled in an effort to minimize the impact of flooding that the massive storm would bring. They used sandbags to plug a gap in the levee on the southwest side of town. And on Sunday, crews with bulldozers worked frantically to reinforce the temporary berm in hopes of holding back the floodwaters. The makeshift wall ultimately could not withstand the powerful rains that have been unleashed by Florence, now a tropical depression.

Source: Huffington Post September 16, 2018 21:22 UTC