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A volunteer rescue truck drives underneath a fallen tree that is suspended by power lines blown down by Hurricane Florence in New Bern, North Carolina.
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Waves slam into a pier in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina on Thursday. Hurricane Florence officially made landfall early Friday morning as a category one hurricane.
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Russ Lewis covers his eyes from a gust of wind and a blast of sand as Hurricane Florence approaches Myrtle Beach, South Carolina early Friday morning.
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Fire department rescue workers and volunteers from the Civilian Crisis Response Team use a truck to rescue residents from their flooded homes on Friday morning. Hundreds of people have called for emergency rescues in the area around New Bern, North Carolina, which sits between two flooding rivers.
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Latonya Willis of Wilmington, North Carolina holds her 17 month-old son Ayden with her other children Kaiden and Dailyn in tow before heading out on a evacuation bus two days before Hurricane Florence hit.
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After the Neuse River overflowed and caused area flooding, these residents packed their belongings and evacuated the area.
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Rain began to fall on Thursday as the outer bands of Hurricane Florence make landfall in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Rain and wind lashed the barrier islands situated just off the mainland.
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A man uses a beach umbrella to shield himself from the rain the day before Hurricane Florence made landfall.
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A woman walks past a local shop that braced for the storm earlier this week with bags of sand.
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Carson Grace Toomer, Martin-Maine Wrangel, and Elizabeth Claire Toomer, swim in the Intracoastal Waterway near Wilmington, North Carolina the day before Hurricane Florence made landfall.
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