At one, members of the New Orleans-based group Cajun Navy Relief encountered a woman hunkered down with multiple pets. Despite water inching toward her front door, Diana Collazo refused to leave, afraid something might happen to her animals. Florence is now the rainiest hurricane in North Carolina *and* South Carolina history. The 2015 South Carolina flood is still the biggest in state history though -- technically it was unrelated to Hurricane Joaquin. Joseph Rushmore for HuffPost A boat crew with the Cajun Navy goes house to house to check for people in need of evacuation in Lumberton.

Source: Huffington Post September 17, 2018 05:48 UTC