Some were killed by falling trees, others by carbon monoxide fumes from a generator. In addition to the eight deaths in North Carolina, there were four in Florida and three each in Georgia and South Carolina. A shift of just 20 or 30 miles could have meant widespread devastation nearer the ocean.Īn estimated 2 million people in the Southeast were ordered to evacuate their homes as Matthew closed in. coastline from Florida through Georgia and the Carolinas, its eye staying far enough offshore that the damage in many places along the coast was relatively modest, consisting mostly of flooded streets, flattened trees and blown-down signs and awnings. The fearsome storm then sideswiped hundreds of miles of the U.S. Matthew killed more than 500 people in Haiti last week, plowing into the desperately poor country at 145 mph. She also wanted "bread, potatoes, eggs - and a piece of sanity."
About 150 people stood in line for a grocery store to open like it was a Black Friday sale.ĭebbie Berta said she waited more than an hour to get propane gas for her grill. Much of Savannah, which had 17 inches of rain, was still without electricity. It still had hurricane-force winds of 75 mph.Įlsewhere along the Atlantic coast, things were slowly returning to normal. EDT, the storm was centered about 150 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, moving out to sea. Shortly before daybreak, the hurricane was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. The Lumber River in Lumberton was 4 feet above its record level Sunday afternoon and was forecast to remain there for at least five days. McCrory warned that cities along rivers in eastern North Carolina needed to be prepared for days of flooding. The rainfall totals were staggering: Nearly 15 inches in Fayetteville and 8 inches in Raleigh. McCrory said he and his wife were riveted by the coverage and relieved to find out from the Coast Guard that the dog managed to get into a tree and rescue it. WRAL-TV showed a dog swimming around floodwaters Saturday. They heard her cries for help while riding on top of a Humvee, and when they couldn't get her with a rope, a National Guard soldier swam to her, staying until a rescue boat arrived, Emergency Management Director Gordon Deno, said.Įven animals had to be saved. In Wilson County, rescuers were called when a 63-year-old woman didn't make it home from work. And I thought, I thought the world was going to end. Ezekiel Crowe, 10, escaped the floods in Fayetteville on Saturday with his parents and seven brothers and sisters when a police boat plucked them from an apartment as the waters rose. The ferocity of the rain caught people by surprise. More than a million people in South Carolina and North Carolina were without power, and at least four separate sections of Interstate 95 - the main artery linking the East Coast from Florida to Maine - were closed in North Carolina. The problems were far from over as all that rain - more than a foot in places - flows into rivers and downstream, likely causing days of major flooding in many of the same places devastated by a similar deluge from Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
Pat McCrory said authorities were searching for five people and feared they may find more victims. The storm killed more than 500 people in Haiti and at least 18 in the U.S.
In another dramatic rescue, a woman with her small child perched on the roof of her car had to be helped to safety as the waters rose around them, underscoring how quickly Matthew wreaked havoc 100 miles or more inland after sparing much of the Southeastern coast the catastrophic damage once feared. Rescuers in Coast Guard helicopters plucked some of them from rooftops and used military vehicles to reach others, including a woman who held on to a tree for three hours after her car was overrun by flood waters. NORTH CAROLINA (CBSNewYork/AP) - When Hurricane Matthew dumped torrential rains on North Carolina, thousands of people found themselves suddenly trapped in homes and cars.
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