Members of the North Carolina Task Force urban search and rescue team check cars in a flooded neighborhood in Fayetteville, N.C., on Sunday, looking for residents as Florence continued to dump more than 30 inches of rain in spots.
Members of the North Carolina Task Force urban search and rescue team wade through a flooded neighborhood looking for residents who stayed behind as Florence continues to dump heavy rain in Fayetteville, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018.
More than 50 people fill bags of sand, Sundayat French's Lane near Pearson Park in Kinston, N.C., in anticipation of floodwaters from Hurricane Florence. The volunteer group was made up of Eastern Carolina Council Boy Scout Troop 41 and Troop 392, Chick-fil-A, residents, students from Arendell Parrott Academy and their families.
A member of the U.S. Coast Guard walks down Mill Creek Road checking houses after tropical storm Florence hit Newport N.C.
Amanda Mason carries a cat she rescued from her neighborhood off of Nine Foot Road in Newport, N.C. Mason and her partner Zack McWilliams visited their damaged home and found the displaced cat and carried it out to safety. Their home was flooded by fast rising water from a tributary of the Newport River on Friday night.
A man photographs the floodwaters of McAlpine Creek along Randolph Road in Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday. Florence forced McAlpine Creek from its bed, flooding the popular greenway for walkers and bicyclists.
A member of the U.S. Coast Guard walks down Mill Creek Road checking houses after tropical storm Florence hit Newport N.C.
Flooding, debris and garbage gather on the bridge near Smith Park on the Roanoke River Greenway stops people from crossing, Sunday in Roanoke, Va. Steady rains from the remnants of Florence fell across much of the area in the morning and afternoon.
Helen McKoy walks down a flooded street in her neighborhood as Florence continues to dump heavy rain in Fayetteville, N.C. "I've never seen it like this before," said McCoy of the rising water down the street from her home. "Whatever God got for me he's going to give it to me. He said he's going to take care of us and that's what I'm going to have to live on."
Bob Richling carries Iris Darden, 84, out of her flooded home as her daughter-in-law, Pam Darden, gathers her belongings in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.
Pearl, a Great Pyrenees that was one of the animals rescued from an animal shelter in Carteret County, N.C., looks out from her cage in the Holshouser Building on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. When the Carteret county shelter was damaged by tropical storm Florence and had to be evacuated, several animal rescue organizations in the Raleigh area volunteered to take them in.
U.S. Army Spc. Daniel Ochoa rides in the back of a high water vehicle while searching for residents to evacuate from a flooded neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.
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