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11.0 <br />40 <br />• <br />t• <br />i <br />9-15-99, 10:30am Emergency Medical Services adrIses that the Special Needs Shelter <br />has released all evacuees and clean-up continues. Sebastian Eiigh <br />School is expected to be back to normal in 34 hours. <br />9-15-99, 11:00am- Emergency Services continues to receive cells from residents about <br />5;Otlpm localized power outages, debris clearance. and read closures No <br />large scale problems reported. <br />9-15-99, 5,00pm Emergency Service-, terminates all preparedness and response <br />actions for Hurricane Floyd <br />After making the northwest turn, Floyd began moving toward the Carolinas its a Category <br />III hurricane with winds of 125mph. The Front that moved Floyd away frorn Florida had <br />weakened and would not be strong enough to move the hurricane away front North <br />Carolina. <br />As the hurricane: moved north. it caused severe beach erosiom coastal flooding, wind <br />damage and low lying area flooding throughout Florida, Georgia, SouthCarolina and the <br />Bahamas. However, the worst hit area by Floyd was North Carolina Floyd made <br />landfall in southern North Carolina with winds of 105mph and a storm -,urge of I0'-12`. <br />Along, with the strong winds. Floyd brought almost 24 inches of rain to North Carolina to <br />a 24 hour period, This rainfall wets on tarp of the moisture from I iurricanc Dennis a few <br />weeks ago. <br />Nualh Carolina experienced the worst flooding in that state's history. Entire cities were <br />completely flooded and relief supplies could not get into the area. Agriculture lost <br />millions because of the drowning deaths of livestock. Damage assessmrrit and recovery <br />cowimaes and will continue for many years because of the devastation of Floyd. <br />After landfall, Fluyd quickly became a tropical dclrression (within 24 hours) and moved <br />over the northeast Unites States. Although wind was not a concern, the flooding rains <br />continued into Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and lite New England states. The statistics <br />on Hurricane Floyd arc as follows: <br />Economic Damage Fs6males $6 Billion -{- <br />Economic Datna,ge-ludian River County $2 Million <br />Severe Housing Damage 100,000+ <br />18 <br />