Authorities in North Carolina confirmed the death of 11 people due to hurricane «Florence». In South Carolina killed 4 people.
His first victims «Nightingale» caught up, barely coming to the coast on Friday, September 14. Incredible force of the wind destroy everything in its path. Uprooted tree in Wilmington (NC), failed on a house just on the other side, where there were people. As a result of 41-year-old woman and her 7-month-old baby was killed and the head of the family was in the hospital.
Friday morning was also the last for:
- The couple from Fayetteville (NC), who died during a fire in the house. The reason of ignition is established.
- 68-year-old man of Lenoir County (North Carolina): he died trying in the rain to connect 2 extension cable. The body in the yard of the relatives found.
- 77-year-old resident of Kinston (Lenoir County, North Carolina). According to preliminary data, he had a bad heart at that moment when he went into the yard to check on my hunting dogs. The man managed to return to the house, but call for help was not able to.
- 81-year-old resident of Wayne County (NC): packing belongings prior to evacuation, he fell and hit his head.
- A resident of Hampstead (Pender County, North Carolina): she had a heart attack and the ambulance couldn’t get to her on time due to the road blocked tree.
- 61-year-old amber Dawn Lee from South Carolina: her car crashed into Gale-force winds felled the tree. The woman was strapped but it did not save it. Passengers in the car were not.
- A couple of Cumberland County (NC). They died during a fire in the house. The cause of the fire was a candle that lit the spouses at the time of the outage.
- 23-year-old Michael Dalton of Georgetown County (SC), which with 2 people tried to pass a pickup truck on a flooded road. Because of the fatal error of the pick-up overturned in the ditch Dalton was killed, his companions were injured.
Saturday afternoon, 2 people were killed in the district Duplin (NC). How — officials did not elaborate, saying only that it occurred due to flooding and rapid flow of water on the roads.
Still about 2 deaths have been reported today, 16 September, in South Carolina due to a failed generator: 63-year-old mark Carter king and 61-year-old Debra Collins Rion poisoned with carbon monoxide.
Despite the fact that «Nightingale» has weakened to a tropical depression and the peak of destruction had passed, the damage which has already managed to put element, going to take a lot of time and money.
The Governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper recommended that evacuated not to rush back. It is not only unsafe, but also complicate the work of rescuers in the affected areas.
