Sep
10
Florence Takes Aim at U.S. East Coast as 1 Million Told to Leave
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Storm now rated Category 4, one level below most severe
- Mandatory evacuations ordered along North Carolina coast
Florence continues to grow in size and strength, now poised to become the strongest hurricane in almost 30 years to hit the Carolinas as more than 1 million people began fleeing the U.S. coastline.
North Carolina’s Outer Banks are under mandatory evacuation orders and four states declared emergencies as the Category 4 storm barreled toward the coast Monday. Already estimated to bring as much as $27 billion in damages, Florence is aiming for landfall late Thursday or early Friday somewhere between Charleston, South Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia…
Florence Takes Aim at U.S. East Coast as 1 Million Told to Leave
