With a Category 4 hurricane rapidly approaching and weather officials issuing a hurricane warning for more than 300 miles of coastline, more than 1 million people faced a choice Tuesday: stay home and take their chances with the storm, or compete with heavy traffic to drive inland.
Officials said Hurricane Florence, with its powerful winds and potentially heavy rainfall, has the potential to cause “massive damage” to parts of the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.
Florence is one of the strongest hurricanes to churn toward the eastern seaboard in decades. As of Tuesday, Florence’s center had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph and was about 785 miles east-southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina. It is expected to to make landfall in the Carolinas on Friday.
President Donald Trump declared an emergency in North Carolina, allowing it to access federal funds. “I think that any amounts of money, whatever it takes, we’re going to do,” Trump said.
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