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The Robesonian18h
Hurricane season is here: Are you prepared?
The Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1. The 2025 hurricane season, which officially runs through November 30, is predicted to be above average. Meteorologists and tropical researchers ...
Changes at FEMA raise local worries as hurricane season begins in North Carolina | Opinion
But the clearest cause for worry is in western North Carolina, where the Trump administration is balking at providing ...
The Robesonian9d
PSRC celebrates topping out at new planetarium and science center
The Public Schools of Robeson County (PSRC) hosted a topping-out ceremony Thursday for the new CTE building that will include ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana8mon
After hurricane, chaos lingers in water-logged N. Carolina
LUMBERTON, N.C. — With floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew on the rise, at least one North Carolina city appeared near chaos Monday, its police station shuttered and sporadic gunfire in the air ...
CBS News10mon
North Carolina community devastated by flooding from 2 prior storms braces for Debby
Hurricane Matthew sucker punched Lumberton, North Carolina, back in 2016. Nobody in that town, which is 80 miles inland, saw 20 inches of rain coming. The Lumber River crested 11 feet above flood ...
The State5y
NC has $25 million to buy flood-damaged homes, and a strategy for spending it
George and Jacqueline Lacy left their home at the end of Park Street by boat during Hurricane Matthew ... October 13, 2016 in Lumberton, NC. Travis Long [email protected] Hogshead and ...
The Business Journals5y
Cover Story: In wake of hurricanes' devastation, many NC businesses still fighting for survival
As another hurricane season arrives, businesses still recovering from Hurricane Matthew have their eyes on the skies – worried that the next big storm could be a deathblow.
inforum6y
Rivers swollen by Hurricane Matthew inundate N.C.
LUMBERTON, N.C./KINSTON, N.C.-Flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew has displaced several thousand people in North Carolina, and authorities were helping more evacuate on Tuesday as ...
The Intercept6y
Devastated by One Hurricane, and Then Another, a Community Confronts the Company That Refused to Block the Floodwaters
In 2016, Hurricane Matthew produced the type of rainfall in Lumberton, North Carolina, that was only supposed to occur once every 1,000 years, but then Hurricane Florence hit two years later ...
The Washington Post6y
First Hurricane Matthew, then Florence: A town in constant recovery
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The Washington Post6y
‘It was just erased.’ A North Carolina community, devastated by hurricane flooding twice in two years, contemplates the future.
Lumberton residents argue that North Carolina Emergency Management Agency ... The city received $2.25 million in grant money after Hurricane Matthew to construct a floodgate, Lumberton City ...
WFMY News26y
Florence floods trigger memories of Hurricane Matthew in Lumberton
"I feel the wind was worse this time than Matthew." Many people in Lumberton are still recovering from the hurricane two years ... of Florence's destruction in NC ...