Police officers and firefighters in eastern North Carolina cruised low-lying areas and shouted a simple message from bullhorns: Get out before the floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew arrive. Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate, and officials warned that some communities could be cut off by washed out roads or bridge closures. Authorities closed one bridge across the swollen Tar River in Greenville and warned that several other bridges could close, isolating people. The full extent of the disaster in North Carolina was still unclear, but it appeared that thousands of homes were damaged. Many likened Matthew to Hurricane Floyd, which did $3 billion in damage and destroyed 7,000 homes in North Carolina as it skirted the state's coast in 1999.

Source: Fox News October 12, 2016 07:09 UTC