Pets Evacuated From Hurricane Florence Ready For Adoption
The pets were evacuated from a shelter ahead of the storm over concerns that the building might be flooded.
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The pets were evacuated from a shelter ahead of the storm over concerns that the building might be flooded.
Sixty-eight Minnesotans who are volunteers for the Red Cross are down in the flood zone trying to help care for the thousands who have been forced out of their homes by Hurricane Florence.
Horry County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Brooke Holden says a sheriff's office van was carrying two detainees and two deputies from Conway to Darlington on Tuesday night when it was overtaken by flood waters.
The storm has claimed at least 32 lives and an untold number of homes on its slow march across North Carolina.
Facebook campaigns and GoFundMe pages make it easier than ever to donate, and now verified campaigns aim to fix the notorious fraudulent fundraisers that sometimes surface after disasters.
The forecast for Florence has not changed, unfortunately.
More than six months after Hurricane Irma's catastrophic rampage across the Caribbean and the southeastern United States, the number of deaths attributed to the storm increased to 129 — more than twice the amount reported at the end of the storm.
Global warming didn't cause Florence, scientists say. But it makes the system a bigger danger.
Forecasters warned that drenching rains of anywhere from 1 to 3 1/2 feet as the storm crawls westward across North and South Carolina could trigger epic flooding well inland over the next few days.
More than 60 people had to be pulled from a collapsing motel at the height of the storm, and many more who defied evacuation orders were hoping to be rescued.
Target has 130 stores and 20,000 employees in Hurricane Florence's path.
Time is running short to flee Hurricane Florence, a monster of a storm zeroing in on the Southeastern coast with more than 10 million people in its potentially devastating sights.
Hurricane Florence is churning off the North Carolina coast where it's expected to make landfall Saturday.
NECHAMA, a Jewish relief organization in Burnsville, is preparing to send people and supplies to the Carolinas in response to Hurricane Florence.
Coastal residents fleeing a potentially devastating blow from Hurricane Florence encountered empty gasoline pumps and depleted store shelves as the monster storm neared the Carolina coast with 140 mph (225 kph) winds and drenching rain that could last for days.
With mandatory evacuations already issued for parts of three East Coast states, millions of Americans are preparing for what could become one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the Eastern Seaboard in decades.
A dozen American Red Cross volunteers from the Minnesota region have been deployed, and some have already reached their East Coast destination.
Minnesotans are already on their way down south to help when Hurricane Florence hits.
Rapidly intensifying Hurricane Florence could strike a direct and dangerous blow anywhere from the Carolinas to the Mid-Atlantic region later this week, possibly as a fearsome category 4.
