Pd River News Today

Mission over the next 24 to 36 hours from femas perspective? >> life safety, we want to make sure that everyone is safe and everyone is on high ground, in a safe space as the storm continues to move west, we are going to see the impacts continue, like was mentioned by your meteorologist, its not just the rain, its the flow thats going to be coming down river and the river and flooding will cause extreme impact, this is now a historic storm. the most rainfall that north carolina has experienced, ...

In south carolina talking about the water coming in from north carolina and concerns about it coming down, how quickly could the water be rising there? >> well, the water is rising, talking of this river specifically, molly, we have been here a couple of hours and i can tell you that our crew, camera dave, producer kelly burke, we have all noticed that this river has physically risen just in those couple of hours and youre right, a lot of the water that falls in north carolina comes through rive...

Right, the left-bank of the river as you approach the ocean here, you can see that that has topped the bank on the left-hand side, you can see a blue sign on one tree as our camera man takes a look at that, that marks it entrance to a walking trail, clearly you need a boat to take that trail right now and as dave looks up river, the road bridge that you see in the distance there is one that has actually been topped before, a local resident who has been here a very long time was telling us just a...

Carolina want residents along the river banks to be very aware of and to heed any warnings that officials give them and if they are told to evacuate, get out immediately, mike. mike: youre a veteran correspondent, how do you rate florence with some experiences over the years? >> generally i would say that people are breathing a sigh of relief that there wasnt more destructive than it could have been and certainly when it was category 4 out in the ocean we feared the worst, it dropped obviously c...

Serious, these words cannot be reiterated enough, god bless. >> at this time i would like to introduce police chief hopkins. >> so the -- sorry, reiterating that sending out the message as much as possible, we are going to be working to try to get a reversed 911 call where the fire chief and i will be doing our best efforts to get out there on intercoms or door to door as much as possible, but this is a large area that we need to cover, lots of ground. city is also working very hard to try to cr...

And businesses along the side of this river in conway, one of the businesses right here, in fact, a childrens center that would be under very, very grave danger of flooding, so that is the great concern, not just here now but along the banks of many rivers in south carolina and indeed in north carolina, this remember could take several days to manifest itself to fullest extent. the waters are coming down here from the continued rainfall obviously, they are meeting with the ocean surge thats comi...

Surface not to be intense as we discussed or as expected, this is not the case, the worst is yet to come as the flood waters from other areas are accumulating north of the county and filling the river basins beyond capacity. mandatory evacuation shall commence immediately and all persons in evacuation areas shall be evacuated by 3:00 p.m. september 16th, 2018. all persons who refuse to fail to comply with mandatory evacuation order shall do so at their own risk and put on notice that emergency a...

That were impacted last with hurricane matthew. a couple years ago. on the lumber river. and the pd river. so its a double dose of that. >> when you look at the preparation that have been made. we heard the president touting them. did the federal government the agencies have done everything they can ahead of the storm? >> i believe so. the national weather service we have brought in extra people. well be around the clock and doing the best we can. and to provide information and warnings to the p...

And the pd river that flows up here. manufacturing left. and real estate market is wrecked and the economy is first and foremost in this part of the south carolina to be issue number one which would appear to appeal to supporters of mitt romney x. just to show you four years ago on the map where huckabee is in blue and mccain is in red. mccain won half and huckabee won half. based on 2012. newt gingrich swept this area and move to florida it would be certain parts of thatitate that reflect a sim...

Officials are saying this isnt over yet and expecting rainfall to continue through the weekend. they expected river flooding conditions to develop over the course of the next two days, this river here is the pd river, its a river that started in north carolina and flows down into south carolina, a lot of into south carolina, a lot of from north carolina. they said one of their big concerns is that not only will they take on water from the rain in the state of south carolina, but also all of the ...