Two dead in North Carolina landslide as
Alberto no longer a storm
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[June 01, 2018]
(Reuters) - Two people were killed
after floods triggered a landslide in North Carolina, as Alberto was
downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone with diminished rainfall by the
U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Thursday.
Rescue workers found two bodies after being alerted late Wednesday that
the landslide had destroyed a home in Boone, North Carolina, in the
heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, said Jeff Virginia, spokesman for
Watauga County Emergency Management.
Local media reported that heavy rains caused the landslide which
triggered a gas explosion.
Video images posted to Twitter by the Boone Police Department showed an
apparently charred home reduced to rubble.
Alberto has becomes a post-tropical cyclone as it attempts to exit
northeastern lower Michigan, and a heavy rainfall threat is fading near
its center, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest
advisory.
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The system is located about 20 miles (30 km) west south-west of
Alpena, Michigan with maximum sustained winds of 30 miles per hour
(45 km/h), the weather forecaster said.
"Flash flood watches remain in effect for the western Carolinas,
northwest Virginia, and far eastern west Virginia," the NHC added.
(Reporting by Arpan Varghese and Eileen Soreng in Bengaluru, and
Barbara Goldberg in New York; Editing by Toby Chopra and Bernadette
Baum)
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