2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Nearly 1.5 million people living on the East Coast of the United States have been ordered to evacuate their homes under the threat of the monstrous Hurricane Florence.
The storm, currently considered category 4, is advancing through the Atlantic Ocean and is currently located 900 miles from Cape Fear, in North Carolina. The storm is expected to make landfall in the southeast of the country this Thursday or Friday.
"We know that this evacuation order is going to be inconvenient for some people," exclaimed Governor Henry McMaster, who ordered the eviction of homes for about one million people in his state. "But we don't want to risk the life of a single person in South Carolina," he said.
For his part, the Governor of South Carolina, Ralph Northam ordered the evacuation of 250,000 people. The states of Virginia and Maryland have also declared a state of emergency.
Florence will arrive with strong winds that are currently measured at 140 miles per hour, but the fear is that it will gain more speed and force as it passes through the ocean, because according to experts the temperature of the sea surface is higher than usual, which would cause the hurricane to reach category 5.
According to the National Weather Service, the storm will cause "a life-threatening tide" as it hits the shores, as well as "life-threatening freshwater floods, damaging hurricane winds, and rising waters in Bermuda and the United States."
"Florence is expected to regain strength later," said Tuesday morning on NWS social media. "It is expected to be an extremely dangerous hurricane when making landfall [and] will produce average rainfall accumulations of 15 to 20 inches. The rain could lead to catastrophic flooding from sudden tides and flooding of rivers."
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