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For the latest in WFDD's series Carolina Curious, we head to the Carver School Road community in East Winston-Salem. Listener Kayla Forrest moved to the area a couple years ago and something in the neighborhood caught her eye. “I noticed that when I was walking my dog that there are a number of houses that have letters on them, on the chimneys in particular it seems, so I was just wondering what those letters represent or what they are for,” says Forrest. WFDD’s Keri Brown takes us back in time to find out.

One of our aldermen trying to get back into town and he says the roads and interstate are closed. bill: you can't go a city block here in wilmington without seeing damage. bill, thank you for make it go out here from wrightsville beach and go buy a lottery ticket, okay? i want to go up the coast now, griff jenkins standing by live in jacksonville, north carolina, 55 miles per hour north of here near the new river. how is flooding there, griff? good day. >> hey, bill, you know, the flooding's bad. you see here, this is a closed road and it's closed for two reasons, we're going to take you and s...

The republican, and we want to bring in matthew swift, working with concordia. thank you for your time and this weekend coverage here. we're trying to assess the damage from a financial standpoint. and you look historically, these storms have gotten more and more expensive over the years in part because we're going to places where we've never lived before. what's your message on the cost of this, matthew, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, thank you so much for having me, bill. i think this is the exact time to be talking about the need for disaster preparedness and infrastructure investment. ...

The trees, signs, street signs have fallen over. people need to stay in place. >> my sense is that since mid day saturday we'd have better idea of damage inland and athe damage along the barrier islands. when do you think we will have a firm idea as to the damage left behind by florence? >> with the leadership we have, the local government are top-notch. it's municipal, county, state, regional, all are just, bill, worldclass individuals and so we will know right away what the damage is and, but it is, as you indicated, less dire. we were preparing for 18 inches of rainy here in the midlands of...

Three homes on the island that are damage? >> there's lots of minor stuff, but only about four roofs. we've got one house with a tree kind of knocking it down, but it's not as-- it's not like wilmington. they had a lot of trees here and just getting here was tough. i mean, there are a lot of trees down here. we are working right now to try to bring our water and sewer systems back up on generator power and whenever the winds die down we'll get new power in here and try to get the power back on, i don't know how long that's going to take. bill: florence was 100 miles per hour? was that the wind...