Hurricane Florence Pictures

First let me say that people had/have it WAYYY worse through this storm than I did. No one in my family was hurt and we didn't suffer any damage to our homes or cars. Luckily the wind damage was minimal since Florence down graded to a CAT 1 by the time she made landfall. The eye made landfall over Wilmington, which you can see near the bottom. We were without power for 5 days. The effects from flooding are still being felt in my town and surrounding areas. Here is where I live in eastern NC. Just outside of Kinston in Lenoir County.
https://i.imgur.com/S757xcs.jpg
Around 11am on Friday. It has been raining since 5 or 6pm Thursday night at this point. Things aren't looking too bad. This is typical water level of a few rainy days.
https://i.imgur.com/oeakOuO.jpg
You'll see this background a lot. It's out my front door.
https://i.imgur.com/69hxYAw.jpg
2:30pm Friday. The water is getting higher but not terrible
https://i.imgur.com/6kpJEiu.jpg
6:11pm on Friday. The water is starting to get higher. The next few pictures are 20 minutes apart.
https://i.imgur.com/F5JKQOm.jpg
6:31pm um, this doesn't look good.
https://i.imgur.com/UREk25E.jpg
6:50pm. Water please stop doing this.
https://i.imgur.com/NPsiv9f.jpg

7:15pm. This is the worst of the rainfall through the storm. Water is now over topping my driveway.
https://i.imgur.com/aC5wqVq.jpg
7:15pm still rising. Almost the whole yard is flooded.
https://i.imgur.com/vo09xOZ.jpg
7 :15pm water still rising. My neighbors yard is underwater. The highest I saw the water was touching the metal rim on my truck.
https://i.imgur.com/yZ0NbHY.jpg
7:22pm almost completely inundated at this point. The water got another 4" or so higher than this but it was too dark to take any more pictures.
https://i.imgur.com/qBStaZR.jpg
Here is a neighboring subdivison. The road is under water here. This is on Saturday.
https://i.imgur.com/hxlIE7x.jpg
Damage in that neighborhood.
https://i.imgur.com/0LzpMYF.jpg
Flooded road.
https://i.imgur.com/91orEli.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Xg2Ny7O.jpg
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Just some limbs and leaves down in my back yard. That's all the damage we had.
https://i.imgur.com/CpF2FCY.jpg

Water is still high in my backyard since it doesn't drain very well.
https://i.imgur.com/CeW43TH.jpg
Our generator that ran for 4 days. This thing was great! It ran 21 hours on a tank of gas and powered a fridge, window A/C, tv, 2 fans, satellite box, lamp, and various phone chargers.
https://i.imgur.com/fLUG2sR.jpg
Window unit A/C also powered by generator. This kept us comfortable in our main living space. We broke out the air mattress to be able to sleep near the A/C.
https://i.imgur.com/wKF2D6L.jpg
had to rig up the installation.
https://i.imgur.com/9KFeiKQ.jpg

It was an ordeal overall but we came out on top. I'd prefer not to have another hurricane anytime soon.

Thanks for sharing Kendall. Do you have a basement or crawl space and if so any water intrusion?

Dang man, that's crazy how high the water got in your front yard.

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Originally Posted by Truthunter

Thanks for sharing Kendall. Do you have a basement or crawl space and if so any water intrusion?

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We have a crawl space. We only got a little water under there that came through the access door. After the storm I put a fan blowing under there for a few days to dry it out.

Thanks for the pics, I'm glad you had almost no damage to your property and even happier you both are safe.