Duke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from the nearby Cape Fear River overtopped an earthen dike at the facility and inundated a large lake.
Schools across the southeastern part of the state remained closed this week as administrators begin to assess the damage from Hurricane Florence.
As North Carolina's farmers evaluate their crop losses after Hurricane Florence, it looks like damage to tobacco fields and barns could be the most costly.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation's Guilford County Division is sending employees to some of the hardest hit areas in the aftermath of Florence.
Hundreds of people waited in long lines for water and other essentials in Wilmington, still mostly cut off by rising water days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with more than 10,000 evacuees around the state not to return home yet.
When meteorologists downgraded Hurricane Florence from a powerful Category 4 storm to a Category 2 and then a Category 1, Wayne Mills figured he could stick it out.
As of Sunday, more than 17,000 people had sought refuge from Florence in nearly 140 Red Cross and community shelters across North Carolina.
