Hurricane Florence: 1.5 Lakh People Without Electric Supply in North Carolina, Roads Flooded

Hurricane Florence was downgraded to Category 1 hurricane on Friday morning. The hurricane is expected to close in on the North Carolina coast — perhaps lingering just offshore — then drift southwest along the shoreline before turning inland on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, reported Reuters.
The storm’s maximum sustained winds were clocked at 150 km per hour, down from a peak of 180 kmph reported on Wednesday. Although Florence is yet to make a landfall, more than one million residents have been ordered to evacuate from coastal areas of North and South Carolina and Virginia.
The NHC warned that Florence still poses a deadly threat to a wide stretch of the US Eastern Seaboard, from southern Georgia into southern Virginia, capable of unleashing rain-fueled catastrophic flooding of rivers and low-lying areas.