On Tuesday, the S.C. High School League voted to start its football playoffs one week later to allow teams to make up games missed because of Hurricane Florence. Que Tucker, commissioner of the N.C. High School Athletic Association, said there should be a decision in North Carolina about any possible playoff schedule changes by Oct. 1. “We’re still giving our schools enough time to access damages to let us know what they’re dealing with,” Tucker…

North Carolina State will collect donated items at its football game against Virginia as part of relief efforts to help areas affected by Hurricane Florence. The school said Tuesday it would release details on the most needed items prior to the Sept. 29 game at Carter-Finley Stadium. In addition, the team’s Midnight Madness-style “Primetime with the Pack” event to kick off the college basketball season will be a ticketed event with after-tax proceeds going to…

While residents of North and South Carolina try to recover from the devastating impacts of Hurricane Florence, the National Weather Service has produced a video of the storm and its long journey from the mid-Atlantic to landfall. The one-minute time lapse video begins on Aug. 29 and shows Florence slowly taking shape, then rushing across the Atlantic before it stalls and churns along the coast of the Carolinas. The hurricane, which reached Category 4 status…

I-40 looks more like a river than a highway north of Wilmington Interstate 40 near mile marker 387 in Pender County, N.C. is flooded as a result of Hurricane Florence, blocking one of the major routes in and out of southeastern NC . NC DOT posted this drone video Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.

Sweat dripped from Dennis Pressley’s forehead as he picked up limbs and raked leaves that fell in his yard when Hurricane Florence blustered through last weekend. “I’ve been in all kind of weather, but that was a good one,’’ Pressley said of the storm. “All anyone is doing now is cleaning up. ‘’ For the first time since last week, the sun shone brightly Tuesday in this small town of 6,000, bringing residents like Pressley…

Turnout may be tempered in the upcoming election after Hurricane Florence impaired North Carolina’s infrastructure, displaced thousands of voters and distracted from political issues as candidates jockey for favor. The deadly storm arrived just as door-knocking, campaign advertisements and fundraising started to ramp up. At stake this year are a state Supreme Court seat, congressional seats, six proposed constitutional amendments and control of North Carolina’s legislature, along with municipal races. Republicans control the legislature, and…

The pews inside Trinity United Methodist Church had been bolted down since 1981, but volunteers were loading them four at a time onto flatbed trailers Tuesday afternoon. Multiple roads to the Conway church on Long Avenue were already impassable due to rising floodwaters as members prepared to spend their Sunday mornings elsewhere for at least a month. Omar Ortiz was among the dozens of church members lending a hand either moving furniture to higher ground…

With many of Florence’s victims landlocked by floodwaters in medium to small sized towns in Eastern North Carolina, the relief effort was thwarted on the ground. Instead, much of the relief effort took to the skies on Tuesday as the long-lasting storm finally left the state. At the private aviation terminal at RDU International, dozens of volunteers were joined by the owners of small planes from all across the country for Operation Airdrop. The non-profit,…

DURHAM, N.C. — On Tuesday ABC11 Together partnered with the Red Cross for the Hurricane Florence Relief Drive. Just before 7 a.m., $10,000 was donated. RELATED: Nutrien donates $100K to ABC11 Together’s Hurricane Florence Relief Drive Then, manager Ray McKeithan from Little Washington-based company Nutrien presented the Red Cross with $100,000 for relief efforts.And just after 4 p.m,. Monty Edge with Active Threat Solutions, LLC donated $20,000. Edge’s wife is volunteering in shelters as well….

Rick Dove took to the air to see what the storm had wrought. A longtime advocate for protecting North Carolina’s rivers from pollution, Dove looked down from a small plane on a submerged landscape stitched with swollen streams and rivers and engulfed by newly formed lakes and ponds. It was not a new scene for Dove, who is 79 and now the Neuse Riverkeeper emeritus and a senior adviser for the international Waterkeeper Alliance. He…

A day after a rough reopening of schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, more complaints have rolled in for Durham Public Schools and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. A letter was sent to DPS Superintendent Pascal Mubenga and the school board sharply criticizing the decision to have school Monday. The decision by CHCCS to have school Wednesday, which is Yom Kippur, prompted letters from religious leaders and a Carrboro alderwoman. Having school in Chapel…