Wilmington, North Carolina police arrested several people for looting a Family Dollar store.
Donald Trump makes every moment about himself. He managed to make the 9/11 memorial all about himself and DL thinks it’s because he gets so excited “to see people that are happy to see him.” In the days leading up to Hurricane Florence Trump said that he did a great job in Puerto Rico after […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hurricane Florence has grounded the Falcon. Anthony Mackie, the actor who has played the superhero in Marvel movies, canceled a scheduled appearance at Comic Con Africa in South Africa because of the storm making landfall on the U.S. east coast. “I’m so sorry I couldn’t make it,” Mackie says in a video […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina early Friday, pushing a life-threatening storm surge of floodwater miles inland and ripping apart buildings with screaming wind and pelting rain. More than 60 people had to be pulled from a collapsing motel at the height of the storm, and many more who defied […]
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The outer bands of wind and rain from a weakened but still deadly Hurricane Florence began lashing North Carolina on Thursday as the monster storm moved in for an extended stay along the Southeastern coast, promising to drench the homes of as many as 10 million people with immense amounts […]
Hurricane Florence is headed to the East Coast and despite all of the warnings, there are people who still refuse to leave. It seems like every time there’s a catastrophic storm there are always people who don’t take it seriously. Chris Paul says maybe if hurricanes were named something more threatening like “Hurricane Mofo” people would […]
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a potentially catastrophic Hurricane Florence steamed toward the Carolinas, Josh Dais watched the weather reports on the TV in his barber shop and listened for updates from emergency officials. But when it comes to deciding whether to flee this island where thousands of black residents trace their ancestry […]
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Florence’s impact on college football (all times local): The game between North Carolina Central and South Carolina State set for Saturday has been postponed until Nov. 24. The contest was to be South Carolina State’s first home game in Orangeburg, South Carolina, after opening the season […]
There’s a story about a man whose house was flooding, but he turned down every person who came to save him. The man told all of his potential rescuers that he was “waiting on the Lord.” Eventually he ended up drowning and God told him that he sent the truck, boat and helicopter as rescue […]
There are a total of eight storms brewing right now and one, hurricane Florence, is headed straight for the Carolinas. It is forecasted to be a category 5 when it makes landfall. This is going to be a big storm and Tom urges everyone to get out! READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: SIGN UP FOR […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Motorists streamed inland on highways converted to one-way evacuation routes Tuesday as about 1.7 million people in three states were warned to get out of the way of Hurricane Florence, a hair-raising storm taking dead aim at the Carolinas with 140 mph (225 kph) winds and potentially ruinous rains. Florence was […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The last time the midsection of the East Coast stared down a hurricane like this, Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were newlyweds. Hurricane Florence could inflict the hardest hurricane punch the Carolinas have seen in more than 60 years, with rain and wind […]
