North Carolina Picks Up Pieces
Hundreds of thousands of people remained without power early Friday and police kept order with curfews as the South picked up in the wake of Hurricane Floyd.
While the Northeast braced for coastal flooding, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Virginia and Maryland were assessing damage from rain as well as high winds. Many roads remained blocked or under water.
More than 940,000 people were without power late Thursday and early Friday in the Carolinas and Virginia. Another 360,000 were in the dark in Maryland.
The Pentagon said 8,000 members of the National Guard in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia were mobilized to help communities recover from the storm.
North Carolina emergency officials, who rescued dozens of residents from submerged homes and cars, also face near-historic flood levels on the Tar and Neuse rivers in the days ahead. Hundreds may have to flee.
President Clinton declared a disaster area in 60 counties. Gov. Jim Hunt, who toured the Tar and Neuse rivers by helicopter Thursday, estimated thousands of homes were damaged. Outside Kinston, several families paddled bass boats to mobile homes now under several feet of water.
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