How Duke Energy decides when to open floodgates in Carolinas
That’s exactly what happened after Helene. With rainwater pouring into the system from the storm’s aftermath, Duke Energy had ...
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Tax deadline extensions: Where weather disasters have altered the April 15 filing date
Every year, the country experiences hundreds of natural disasters but only few rise the level that the Internal Revenue ...
North Carolina families coping with weather anxiety, long recovery months after Hurricane Helene
It has been six months since Hurricane Helene unleashed biblical flooding and tree-snapping winds across the Southeast, and ...
Wildfires in North and South Carolina fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Hurricane Helene
Dry conditions, wind and trees downed by Hurricane Helene fueled wildfires in North Carolina and South Carolina, where ...
FEMA grants federal funds to aid North Carolina in battling Black Cove Complex fire
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has authorized federal funds to help reimburse costs to North Carolina to fight the Black Cove Complex fire in Polk Coun ...
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North Carolina’s Cape Fear River Is a ‘Forever Chemical’ Hotspot—What Does That Mean for Its Birds and People?
Amid mounting global health concerns about PFAS, communities living along the waterway must grapple with how contamination is ...
Gusty winds threaten to spread North Carolina wildfires
As firefighters continued to battle three stubborn North Carolina wildfires in the same county, a breezy and dry forecast for ...
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Carolina wildfires followed months of weather whiplash, from drought to hurricane-fueled floods and back to drought
The fires followed a year of weather whiplash in the Carolinas, from a flash drought over the summer to extreme hurricane flooding in September, and then back to drought again. Wake Forest University ...