[Interesting Times]

Just posted at storm2k:

Haven't been able to read the boards to see if this has made it up but there is basically catastrophic flooding from the storm in Pamlico, Craven, and Carteret Counties. The national guard is currently trying to rescue about 100 people near Harlow that are stranded and at least 40 homes in the area are either flooded, destroyed, or gone. Pamlico doesn't sound much better. In Carteret you really can't get to the eastern half of the county at the moment because of the water. In Atlantic there are currently 200 homes surrounded by water and rescue efforts are ongoing. Evidently the water is so high that the sub division on the other side of the highway where I live has been flooded by North River. Its only supposed to get worse tommorow because the waters not going anywhere. Just wanted to update you all because it didn't seem to make the national news.

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[Howlin]

Watching the local coverage, if what has happened in any indication of what is going on up north, it's going to be pretty bad.

[kayak]

A swift water rescue unit from Charlotte is in the eastern part of the state working on rescuing those 100 people near Harlow .... and, I think, also the other group of 200. As of the 6:00 news, only 2-3 had been gotten to safety. It's slow work in order to minimize danger to both the victims and the rescuers.

If any of you saw the Storm Stories segment on TWC last week about the couple that went over the dam and were rescued, this is the same unit that saved them.

There should be updates on the 11:00 news in Charlotte ..... if so, I'll report in.