FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — As North Carolina braces for another storm, we are looking back at the hurricane from Fall 2016 that devastated our state. Monday marks two years since we were pummeled by Hurricane Matthew. It was a heavy duty rainmaker with flooding that proved catastrophic. Residents in Vanstory Hills are still living in a nightmare. “If you look out our front window. That’s what you see. That big crater with all that junk…

All eyes are on Hurricane Michael as it moves into the Gulf Of Mexico tonight. The storm is forecast to strengthen into a dangerous Category 3 hurricane as it approaches the Florida Panhandle mid week. Right now, the hurricane is forecast to make landfall in northwest Florida midday on Wednesday with destructive winds and a storm surge of 12 feet, which would cause extensive damage. Michael will weaken as it moves to the northeast, but…

Friends and police officers remembered Florence police Sgt. Terrence Carraway as brave, funny, compassionate and a gentle giant. ”To meet him you know him, to know him you got no choice but to love him. He was more than just a police officer, he was a legend,” said Tislam Blathers, one of Carraway’s sons. Blathers said Carraway inspired him to wear a law enforcement uniform and wanted to deliver a final salute. Blathers then raised…

By Gilbert Baez, WRAL reporter Lumberton, N.C. — Parts of Robeson County are still in recovery mode after Hurricane Florence forced the Lumber River over its banks less than a month ago. Now residents face another flooding threat from Hurricane Michael. Wanda Locklear and her husband were among the only residents of National Avenue in Lumberton who braved Hurricane Florence. They had just finished repairs to the damage Hurricane Matthew wrought in 2016. After Florence,…

More than three weeks after Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina, state officials have attributed another death to the storm. A 68-year-old man in Onslow County died of “natural disease exacerbated by storm cleanup,” according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which determines whether a death is related to the storm. The addition brings the official death toll from Florence in North Carolina to 40. The man died on Sept. 20, according…

Hurricane Michael might roll into North Carolina at the worst possible moment: just in time to disrupt the NC State Fair, an event that attracted more than 1 million people last year. With fair-goers, ride and food operators and agricultural entries coming from across the state, that leaves fair management watching and waiting with fingers crossed. The fair begins Thursday, Oct. 11, in Raleigh and runs through Oct. 21. “That’s the one thing we can’t…

FLORENCE, S.C. — Hundreds of friends, family and fellow officers gathered in South Carolina to remember the love, passion and courage of a police officer whose chief said he died trying to save three other wounded officers in a barrage of gunfire. Fellow police officers, a young person he mentored into a military career and one of his fellow church deacons spoke Monday about a giant of a man with a giant heart too. One…