FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — In response to flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, Tyson Foods, Inc. is sending teams to prepare meals for those affected by and responding to the disaster in Fayetteville. The company’s “Meals That Matter” mobile disaster relief truck will begin setting up at the Walmart on South Raeford Road this evening. Free, hot meals will be provided beginning Thursday at 11 a.m. Tyson Foods is also organizing a distribution network…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Amtrak service in North Carolina is getting back on track more than a week after service was interrupted because of Hurricane Florence. The Piedmont train that runs between Raleigh and Charlotte will resume Thursday, Sept. 20. RELATED: Florence flooding updates: President Trump says ‘we’re with you all the way’ Several other routes will start back up on Sunday, Sept. 22. That includes Amtrak’s Silver Meteor, Silver Star and Palmetto trains. Anyone…

ASHE COUNTY, N.C. — Floods from Florence are still causing problems across North Carolina. On Tuesday, officials said rainfall from the hurricane was responsible for a mudslide which caused a fire at a bank in Ashe County. Authorities told WSOC within minutes of the mudslide, much of Life Store Bank in Warrensville was engulfed in flames. The storm dumped six to eight inches of rain in that area. “Can’t believe it happened, resident Vickie Cooper…

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — Former reality star and entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel flew to Fayetteville on Wednesday afternoon to distribute supplies to Hurricane Florence victims in the Carolinas.The former “Real Housewives of New York City” star went to the Manna Church shelter in Fayetteville with her daughter and a team of volunteers to deliver a wide range of necessities to families that had to evacuate. Some of the supplies her crew brought include solar-powered lights, cash…

An official at a water utility company in North Carolina says Hurricane Florence’s floodwaters caused 3.2 million gallons of partially-treated wastewater to mix with a creek. The Daily News of Jacksonville reports the Onslow Sewer and Water Authority says the storm’s rainfall caused water in the Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility in Richlands to rise several feet. CEO Jeff Hudson says the water “devastated” the plant and fried electrical units used to control and perform…

This man and his cat became the faces of Florence and a story of resilience and hope Sep 20, 2018 A photograph of Robert Simmons Jr. and a kitten, Survivor, in a flooded New Bern, NC, neighborhood, went viral during Hurricane Florence. Here is what happened to Simmons and the cat after the picture was taken. By

Hurricane Florence was blowing across eastern North Carolina hours before making landfall, and Bennie Lee Sutton’s hunting beagles were howling in their backyard kennel. So he was up in the middle of the night doing what he knew would quiet the pack of more than a dozen hounds: parking his pickup nearby and shining the headlights into their pen. Sutton could be heard talking to someone, probably the dogs, shortly before dawn Friday as winds…

Aerial photographs show widespread devastation to farms and industrial sites in eastern North Carolina, with tell-tale trails of rainbow-colored sheen indicating potential contamination visible on top of the black floodwaters. However, conditions remain so bad more than five days after Hurricane Florence made landfall that the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality said its inspectors have been unable to visit the hardest hit areas or collect samples of the floodwater for lab testing. The agency’s regional…

Hurricane Florence is still wearing out the Carolinas, where residents have endured an agonizing week of violent winds, torrential rain, widespread flooding, power outages and death. Frustration and sheer exhaustion are building as thousands of people wait to go home seven days after the storm began battering the coast. Florence is blamed for at least 37 deaths, including those of two women who drowned when a sheriff’s van taking them to a mental health facility…