| WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolinas Outer Banks on Friday with a ferocity that seemed to take storm-hardened residents by surprise, and hundreds were feared trapped by high water. Full coverage: Hurricane Dorian Sheriffs officials sent medics and other rescuers to Ocracoke Island reachable only by boat or air amid reports of people being forced to retreat to their attics after defying mandatory evacuation orders along the 200-mile (320-kilometer) ribbon of low-lying islands. There is significant concern about hundreds of people trapped on Ocracoke Island, Gov. Roy Cooper said. There are rescue teams ready as soon as they can get in. Its winds down to 90 mph (145 kph), Dorian howled over the Outer Banks as a far weaker storm than the brute that wreaked havoc on the Bahamas at the start of the week. More than a quarter-million residents and visitors had been ordered to evacuate the North Carolina island chain ahead of the storm, officials said. |
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