At least seven people die in North Carolina flash floods
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[November 13, 2020]
(Reuters) - At least seven people
died in North Carolina on Thursday as flash floods swept through parts
of the state, authorities said, adding at least two people were missing.
In the state's Alexander County emergency responders found three bodies
and evacuated more than 30 people from a campground, emergency services
said.
A fourth person in Alexander County was killed in a car when floodwaters
destroyed a bridge and two others were killed in the Iredell County,
authorities added. The Wake County Sheriff's Office said a child had
drowned in Rolesville.
Five counties in North Carolina declared a state of emergency on
Thursday, according to the state's deputy director of emergency
management.
They included Alexander County, where at least four bridges and 50
roadways were breached by floodwaters. The county's website said that
emergency personnel ended the search for missing people around 6 p.m.
and will resume at 8 a.m. on Friday.
In Charlotte, rescuers evacuated 143 students after Charlotte Corvian
Community School became inundated, the Charlotte Fire Department said.
Electric utility Duke Energy said about 3,100 customers were without
electricity across North Carolina as of Thursday afternoon.
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North Carolina has been hit by the same weather system as Tropical
Storm Eta, with some areas receiving about 10 inches of rain.
Eta drenched Florida's west coast on Thursday after making landfall
north of Tampa Bay with 50 mile-per-hour (80 kph) winds, but the
system weakened slightly as it moved across the northeastern part of
the state and into the Atlantic.
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Eta, the 28th named storm of the busiest Atlantic hurricane season
on record, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC),
made its fourth landfall at around 4 a.m. on Thursday near Cedar
Key, Florida, having already slammed Central America, Cuba and the
upper Florida Keys.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Simon
Cameron-Moore)
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