Photos: Flooding, damage left in wake of Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence
A sailboat is shoved up against a house and a collapsed garage on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, after heavy wind and rain from Hurricane Florence, now a tropical storm, blew through New Bern, N.C.
Steve Helber | AP

Emergency workers went door to door urging people to flee Florence's rising waters Saturday and rescuers used inflatable boats to pluck others from homes already submerged as the storm poured on the rain, setting the stage for what could be some of the most disastrous flooding in North Carolina history.

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