N.C. 12 in Kill Devil Hills floods during Hurricane Matthew, October 2016. Photo: Dare County Dare County is set to receive more than $4.2 million to elevate 31 homes that have a history of flooding during hurricanes and other storms. The funding announced Thursday by North Carolina Emergency Management and…
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State commits to 1,000 housing units in hurricane-hit areas
…affordable housing units in regions of state hit hard by hurricanes Matthew and Florence, including coastal North Carolina. About $53.5 million of the state’s share of federal Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery funds are to be used in a deal with the North Carolina Housing Finance…
Report: Florence Broke 28 Flood Records
…new peaks of record set by Hurricane Florence broke previous records set by Hurricane Matthew in 2016,” Toby Feaster, USGS Hydrologist and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “Since several of the streamgage sites we analyzed had more than 30 years of historical data associated with them,…
Swansboro family’s home kept flooding; state bought it
…the property prior to the hurricane before any flood damage. So they’re getting the value of their property before the hurricane and then we offer the $50,000 on top of that funding,” he said. For example, if the buyout property is appraised at $150,000, the homeowner would get that $150,000…
Region Eyes Ecotourism as Key to Adaptation
…beset by changing climate impacts such as flooding from rising sea levels and intense rains. In 1999, downtown Windsor was inundated with more than 6 feet of floodwater during Hurricane Floyd, destroying dozens of homes, businesses and public buildings. It flooded dramatically again in 2016 during Hurricane Julia. Then, just…
It’s Resiliency Week, As Rebuilding Continues
…is threatened by climate change and we must address the challenge of resiliency across North Carolina,” Cooper said in an announcement Tuesday. “As we approach the anniversary of another notable named storm, Hurricane Matthew, it is important to recognize that we must make deliberate, thoughtful choices to make our state…
House Budget Funds Recovery, Resilience
…range of resiliency programs, most of which are set up under the Department of Public Safety’s new Office of Resiliency and Recovery. The office was set up last year to coordinate and consolidate ongoing disaster recovery programs from 2016’s Hurricane Matthew and last year’s storms, Florence and Michael. The resiliency…
Smarter Energy Investment Needed Now
…Hurricane Florence, which brought enough rain to be categorized as a 1000-year flood event; to match the 1000-year flood event we experienced in 1997 with Hurricane Fran. And it was just two years ago that we experienced a 500-year flood event when Hurricane Matthew swept through. Economic losses from both…
Extra Session Called After Disaster Relief Vote
RALEIGH — The General Assembly passed legislation Wednesday providing $200.9 million for the recovery from Hurricane Matthew in the east and wildfires in the west, and then promptly opened a new special session aimed at dialing back some of the powers of incoming governor Roy Cooper and loosening environmental rules….
Forgotten message in a bottle washes up 25 miles away
…managed to dodge innumerable islands in northern Currituck Sound, islets and sandbars to make the roughly 25-mile journey from Corolla to Kitty Hawk. It’s not clear what forces drove the bottle to Kitty Hawk Woods. The most likely suspect was a hurricane. Hurricane Matthew came ashore in October 2016, and…
Whales of Fishing Creek: Fossils reveal climate prophecies
…including two “500-year” floods in 17 years: Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and Hurricane Matthew in 2016, which caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. According to scientists, the town’s neglected, insufficient levee and climate change threaten to cause more frequent and catastrophic flooding and erasure from this marginal land….
Fix Costly For Roanoke Island’s Flooding
…maps it was understood to mean not a flood zone. When the couple purchased the three-bedroom, two-bath house in 2015, Head recalled, flooding was not mentioned. But by the following year, their home had been inundated by 17 inches of rain during Hurricane Matthew and has also been flooded in…