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Seven Years After Landfall, Hurricane Florence’s Rainfall Disaster Revisited

Anniversary coverage spotlights the slow-moving storm’s record inland flooding across the Carolinas.

Locally, rainfall from Hurricane Florence was devastating with multiple areas picking up over 20 inches of rain. This includes Dillon, Cheraw, Lumberton, and Loris. Many other spots picked up over one foot of rain, like Carolina Forest, Socastee, and Conway.
Hurricane Florence was a Cabo Verde hurricane, meaning that it originated near those islands. The storm had an unusual path, travelling northwest into an area that historically doesn't bring hurricanes to the U.S. But the storm would ultimately be steered toward the Carolinas.
Summary of Hurricane Florence's impacts. The storm made landfall at 7:15am in Wrightsville Beach, NC as a category 1 hurricane. The storm killed 51 people in the Carolinas and was a major rainmaker, dropping nearly two feet of rain in areas like Loris and Dillon.
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