Steve McGugan, the state of North Carolina’s Hazard Mitigations section chief, ... The post FEMA to start working with homeowners in flood zones on buyouts of destroyed homes, or elevation of ...

Sanderson Farms, a poultry company with big operations in North Carolina, says that 60 of its 880 production chicken houses in the state have flooded. As a result, 1.7 million birds died, out of a ...

Two beach houses in Rodanthe, North Carolina, have been purchased by the National Park Service in an effort to avoid the uncontrollable collapse of the eroded structures. The houses costed $700,000.

Rather than make elevation mandatory in flood zones around North Carolina, ... Page 9 of the New York edition with the headline: North Carolina Lawmakers Left Homes Exposed to Storm’s Wrath.

Three houses, all on the same street, have fallen into the sea in Rodanthe, North Carolina, in less than a week. And officials say the threat of more collapses in the Outer Banks is only growing ...