Ronald Rabon’s family has been farming their Aynor property for four generations, but Mother Nature is getting in the way of the only job Rabon has ever known. Rabon, the 63-year-old owner and operator of Double R Farms off Valley Forge Road, is facing a devastated crop yield for the third time in four years after Hurricane Florence brought copious rain and salt air onto his roughly 1,300-acre farm. Early estimates suggest about $100 million…

Santee Cooper’s latest effort to ensure its stockpile of coal ash in Conway stays out of the Waccamaw River involves 6,000 feet of water-inflated flood-control barriers. The AquaDam structures will be assembled next to the fencing along Pond 2’s dike at the now-demolished Grainger Generating Station, according to a Santee Cooper news release. The majority of the 200,000 tons of coal ash still awaiting excavation sits in Pond 2, while Pond 1 is too narrow…

By Joel Bryant, HighSchoolOT.com Reporter Greenville, N.C. — On Wednesday night, Greenville’s D.H. Conley High School and J.H. Rose High School faced off in a rivalry soccer match that meant more than just a conference battle. In place of standard ticket prices, Conley’s gate accepted all kinds of donated items in exchange for admission to the game. Both fan bases were allowed to participate. The items are to be donated to New Bern High School,…

NORTH CAROLINA — Hurricane Florence brought devastating floods and to the Carolinas and killed at least 37, leaving people needing to rebuild. Related: Relief money available for 18 NC counties, applications now open If you would like to help those affected by the storm, here’s what you should keep in mind. Check the charity Before you donate to a charity, make sure you know where your aid is going. The Center for International Disaster Information…

By Mitch Carr, WRAL contributor Allison and Warren Cavenaugh usually take Frog Pond Lane to drive to their Wallace home. Since Saturday, though, they’ve only been able to get there by boat. “I don’t know how deep it is on the road,” Warren Cavenaugh said. The Cavenaughs owned a home, an electrical contracting shop and a poultry farm with 80,000 chickens. Now, after Florence, it’s all underwater. “Everything in there is going to be turned…

NORTH CAROLINA (WTVD) — Many areas of North Carolina saw more than average rainfall in September and the year thanks to Hurricane Florence. Of the reports from the National Weather Service in Raleigh, Wilmington had the most rainfall with 86.40 inches fallen this year — almost 4.5′ above last year. The Piedmont area came in second with just over 3.2′ from 2017. Related: Florence by the numbers: Trump says ‘a lot of money’ is coming…

In the photograph that delivered his face onto phone screens and into living rooms across the nation, Robert Simmons Jr. wears a look of anguish. He is riding in a jon boat out of his neighborhood in New Bern, the neighborhood where generations of his family have lived in the same house off of Garden Street. His great-grandfather built that house. Floodwater from Hurricane Florence surrounds the boat. Simmons is hunched over. He looks weighed…

Hurricane Florence lashed the Carolinas, leaving behind rising floodwaters, damaged properties, and families without loved ones.Governor Roy Cooper said the storm was “epic” and unlike any other that has hit the state. “We are a beacon in the South, and we have weathered storms before in our state,” Cooper said. “Mr. President, we have never seen one like this. This one was been epic. It has been disastrous. It has been widespread. It’s a storm…