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The highest reported rainfall was 29.5 inches in Busick Raws, Yancey County, North Carolina’s Gov. Roy Cooper’s office said. The state reported 635,887 total outages on Saturday. The state ...
Cooper’s office said at the time that donations ranged from $1.5 million from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina to $1 that an 8-year-old boy from Georgia gave from his allowance.
North Carolina state government is also taking donations through its Disaster Relief Fund. The United Way is the fiscal agent for the fund . A donation form is available at nc.gov/donate.
Due to its location, many hurricanes have hit the state directly, and numerous hurricanes have passed near or through North Carolina in its history; the state is ranked fourth, after Florida, Texas, and Louisiana, in the number of cyclones that produced hurricane-force winds in a U.S. state. [2] [3]
After the devastation in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene — a Category 4 hurricane that swept through landlocked parts of the state Sept. 27, killing at least 200 people, hundreds ...
September 3, 2010 – Hurricane Earl passes just east of the Outer Banks, inundating portions of North Carolina Highway 12 with storm surge and producing hurricane-force wind gusts that severely damaged six houses. Moderate crop damage was reported further inland, and monetary damage in the state reached $2.5 million (2010 USD).
Due to the common occurrence of hurricanes in the coastal state of North Carolina, hurricane recovery in North Carolina is a large component of the state's emergency management efforts. Recovery from these tremendous storms at the local and state level is a large part of the aftermath of a hurricane.
Facts: The state encourages financial donations to the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund and to N.C. volunteer organizations responding to the disaster. The state is working with the ...