Web Desk (September 11, 2018): More than a million people have been ordered to evacuate parts of the southeastern U.S. coast as a powerful hurricane barrels toward the shore.
Mandatory evacuation orders were given to parts of the states of South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia as forecasters and officials urge people to prepare for devastating winds and heavy rains from hurricane Florence.
The National Hurricane Center says it expects the storm to make landfall late Thursday into Friday as “an extremely dangerous major hurricane.”
Florence is a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometers per hour and forecasters think it will gain more strength. It is the most powerful hurricane to threaten the region in nearly three decades.
A Category 4 storm is capable of ripping roofs off houses, snapping or uprooting most trees, bringing lasting power outages and making areas uninhabitable for weeks or months. Florence is expected to drench areas along its path with 38 to 50 centimeters of rain.
President Donald Trump signed declarations of emergency Tuesday for the Carolinas, a move that frees up federal money and resources.
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