By Martha Waggoner and Allen Breed, The Associated Press, October 10, 2016
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Hurricane Matthew is gone, but the disaster its rains unleashed will slowly unfold all this week as rivers across eastern North Carolina rise to levels unseen since many of the same areas were destroyed by a similar deluge from Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
Emergency planners are now using models that can pinpoint exactly how high the rivers can get and which buildings will be flooded days in advance. But they can’t predict dams and levees breaking from the stress of more than a foot of rain in some places.
