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Area residents, relief workers respond to Hurricane Matthew damage
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Flood water surrounds the intersection of U.S. 70 and N.C. 258 in Kinston, N.C., on Sunday as the Neuse River remains flooded following Hurricane Matthew. State officials estimate the flooding has caused $1.5 billion in damage to 100,000 homes, businesses and government buildings. - photo by ZACH FRAILEY
Hurricane Matthew’s disastrous spin up the East Coast, particularly the Carolinas, has triggered a huge humanitarian response from Georgia relief workers, faith-based groups and others. Gainesville City Councilman George Wangemann said he and up to 100 other Hall County members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are awaiting word as to whether they’ll be dispatched to Georgia or states farther north. Further instructions could come Thursday, but whatever the marching orders, members are ready to help, Wangemann said.