Joseph Rushmore for HuffPost A cemetery is partially submerged near Manchester, North Carolina, a few miles from Fayetteville. “Just watching it, you know, it’s history.” Dulles Faircloth, 68, remembers his father telling stories about the Cape Fear Flood of 1945. He marveled at the slow-moving hurricane, calling it the “storm of the century,” and at the Cape Fear River’s power. En route, the trio of 5-ton military trucks received waves from residents gathered on the bridge spanning the Cape Fear River. “We may disagree on stuff, but when it matters we come together.”Joseph Rushmore for HuffPost Members of the North Carolina Nationl Guard load water onto a truck in Fayetteville, North Carolina on Monday.

Source: Huffington Post September 18, 2018 05:03 UTC