Hurricane Florence made landfall just outside of Wilmington, North Carolina on September 14th, 2018. Despite weakening in intensity to a Category 1 storm, 90 mph winds uprooted trees and left 800,000 people without power. Dumping 18 trillion gallons of water, Florence is the wettest tropical system to ever hit the Carolinas. Record breaking rainfall, coupled with storm surge, caused a flooding crisis and emergency evacuations across the Carolinas. A total of 48 people have died as a result of the hurricane, 37 of which were in North Carolina. The coastal communities of the state were some of the hardest hit, so our initial response efforts focused in New Bern and its surrounding areas.