Florence & North Carolina is a FLOODING DISASTER that will continue through the Week

Rivers won't crest until Tuesday. Dams may break. Levees are already failing. Stay on top of the News if you are in North Carolina.
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Florence's Devastation: Workers Trapped at North Carolina Nuclear Facility; More Evacuations Ordered in South Carolina; Death Toll Rises

Hurricane Florence has killed at least 20 in the Carolinas during its rainy siege.
Floodwaters cut off Wilmington, the state’s eighth-largest city, from the rest of the state.
Flooding stranded some employees at Duke Energy's Brunswick nuclear plant on Monday.

Hurricane Florence, now downgraded to a tropical depression, began its second week of impacts Monday with much of the same – flooding that cut off entire towns and water rescues in parts of the Carolinas that have been inundated.

Workers Stranded: Flooding surrounded Duke Energy's Brunswick nuclear plant on Monday, cutting it off from the outside world and stranding some workers at the facility, the News and Observer reported. The employees are not in any immediate danger, but the plant has raised emergency levels to an "unusual event" – the lowest level on the scale, the report added.

Dams, levees threatened: On Monday, Ashe County Emergency Management officials posted on Facebook that the Headwaters Dam "is fine today." Shortly before 8 p.m Sunday, the emergency manager had reported the imminent failure of the Headwaters Dam in the Headwaters subdivision of Creston. The alert said the dam was in danger of being breached, and it said people downstream of 5010 3 Top Road were being asked to evacuate. Less than an hour later, another emergency was reported at a levee in Landis, but that situation is under control, the National Weather Service said.

Missing child found dead: Union County officials said they recovered the body of 1-year-old Kaiden Lee-Welch Monday morning, who had been missing since he was swept away by floodwaters a day earlier. Rescuers said the child's mother was also swept from the car that she drove into the floodwaters, a WCCB reporter tweeted. She was rescued and taken to the hospital.

Train derails: A CSX train derailment in Lilesville may have been caused after flooding washed out the tracks. In a statement, CSX officials said several railcars derailed about 6 p.m. Sunday. Personnel on the train were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

Wilmington cut off: Wilmington, the state’s eighth-largest city, is cut off from the rest of North Carolina by still-rising floodwaters from Florence, officials plan to airlift food and water to a city of nearly 120,000 people as rescuers elsewhere pull inland residents from homes threatened by swollen rivers.

Charlotte flooding: In and around Charlotte, people trapped in their homes have prompted numerous multiple water rescues, especially on the south side of the city, where 20 roads were closed, according to the National Weather Service. Further east, in Union County, nearly 100 roads were underwater and at least two water rescues were underway Sunday afternoon.

I-95 closed: Flooding led to the closure of a huge stretch of Interstate 95 from north of Fayetteville all the way north to U.S. 64 – a span of about 60 miles of the freeway. Officials told drivers to avoid I-95 entirely, and advised them to instead go west into Tennessee and take I-75 through Georgia, WTVR.com reported.

Rainfall records: Five spots have preliminarily topped North Carolina's tropical cyclone rainfall record: Swansboro (34 inches), Hofmann Forest (29.48 inches), Sunny Point (27.44 inches), Nature Conservancy (27.12 inches) and Newport/Morehead City (25.20 inches). The previous record was 24.06 inches from Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

N.E. Cape Fear River at Chinquapin: This location set a new record flood level on Sunday, topping the previous record of 23.5 feet from Hurricane Floyd in 1999. "Devastating flooding" occurs across the county once the river reaches 23 feet, according to the National Weather Service. The river gauge in this spot is no longer working, but serious flooding should continue this week.
Trent River at Trenton: A new record crest was set on Sunday, surpassing Hurricane Floyd's flood level of 28.42 feet. The entire town of Trenton is flooded at this level. Record flooding continued as of Monday morning.
Little River at Manchester: Record flooding is ongoing, topping Hurricane Matthew's previous record flood level of 32.19 feet.

Power outages: About 450,000 homes and businesses remain without power in North Carolina, according to PowerOutage.us.

Rescues: Gov. Roy Cooper said in a Monday afternoon news conference that more than 2,600 people and 300 animals have been rescued from the flooding statewide.

Toxic threat: