Residents of Rice’s Creek – population just 27 – face a potentially life-and-death decision to evacuate or stay in their homes in rural North Carolina
On a map, the tiny “town” of Rice’s Creek, half a dozen trailer homes named after the body of water they sit by, doesn’t exist. If Hurricane Florence inflicts the damage it is expected to through its storm surge and flash flooding, it may also cease to exist in a real-world sense too.
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