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Helicopter evacuates locals amid deadly Hurricane Florence

Members of Onslow County emergency look to see if a passenger was still in a car that was overtaken by flooding on US Route 17 outside of Jacksonville, North Carolina on September 15, 2018 during Tropical Storm Florence. (AFP)

Tropical Storm Florence dumped "epic" amounts of rain on North and South Carolina as it trudged inland on Saturday, September 15, knocking out power and causing at least 11 deaths as flood waters that have devastated many communities kept rising.

Videos uploaded by the US Coast Guard showed the rescue of multiple victims in Onslow County and aerial views of severe flooding in New Bern in North Carolina.

Florence's intensity has diminished since it roared ashore along the US mid-Atlantic coast on Friday as a hurricane.

The Neuse River floods a street in New Bern, North Carolina, on September 14, 2018 during Hurricane Florence. (AFP)

But its slow march over the two states, crawling west at only 2 miles per hour (3 km per hour), is expected to leave large parts of the region deluged in the coming days.


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