North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said
at a news conference that the storm has
“never been more dangerous than it is
right now.”
“Wherever you live in North Carolina, be
alert for sudden flooding,” he added, as
entire cities and communities across the
state were flooded over the weekend.
“It’s horrible,” said Mitch Colvin, the
mayor of Fayetteville, N.C., where the
floods are expected to cut the city in half
in the next few days.
“Things are deteriorating,” he added,
according to The New York Times.
At least 17 people are reported to have
been killed so far, Sky News reported,
including two infants that were killed by
falling trees in North Carolina.
In one instance in Wilmington, a mother and her eight-moth-old child were killed
when a tree collapsed on their brick house. Another three-month-old boy was killed in Gaston County when a large pine
tree fell across a mobile home, though his
father and mother escaped unharmed.
