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Venice saw an unusually high tide leaving three-quarters of the city covered in water. Officials in large areas of the country closed schools and urged residents to stay indoors.

The water utility company is urging residents to cut back on consumption by at least 15 percent as the city's reserve reaches "minimal levels."

Mudslides, swift-water rescues and closed roads were among the impacts that Tropical Storm Michael brought to North Carolina Wednesday, hitting the western part of the state particularly hard.

A North Carolina city dealing with fallout from Hurricane Florence has been swarmed by aggressive mosquitoes nearly three times larger than regular mosquitoes.

As Congress considers a relief package to North Carolina and other states battered by Hurricane Florence, coastal residents are being reminded that the danger from the storm isn't over.

Schools across the southeastern part of the state remained closed this week as administrators begin to assess the damage from Hurricane Florence.

Hundreds of people waited in long lines for water and other essentials in Wilmington, still mostly cut off by rising water days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with more than 10,000 evacuees around the state not to return home yet.

When meteorologists downgraded Hurricane Florence from a powerful Category 4 storm to a Category 2 and then a Category 1, Wayne Mills figured he could stick it out.