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.
Hurricane Michael, which made landfall on the Florida panhandle Wednesday, was downgraded to a tropical storm early Thursday morning as it began its charge into North Carolina.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is urging residents to prepare as Hurricane Michael closes in.
A common phenomenon following hurricanes is massive fish die-offs, also known as fish kills.
More than a million gallons of untreated wastewater was discharged into a Greensboro creek due to heavy rains from Florence, among the largest such incidents in modern memory.
As North Carolina's farmers evaluate their crop losses after Hurricane Florence, it looks like damage to tobacco fields and barns could be the most costly.
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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.
From Meteorologist Jeff Huffman, expires at 11 p.m. Sunday:
