A pickup truck drives on a flooded road past a farmhouse that is surrounded by flooded fields from Tropical Storm Florence in Hyde County, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018. #

Hurricane Florence makes landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as seen from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite on September 14, 2018. #

An abandoned car's hazard lights continue to flash as it sits submerged in rising floodwaters during the predawn hours after Hurricane Florence struck in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018. #

Richardson Tumulak brings a candle into an elderly couple's room after the Sleep Inn hotel they were staying in lost power on September 13, 2018, during Hurricane Florence. #

Firefighters pray during an operation to remove a tree that fell on a house and killed two residents as Hurricane Florence made landfall in Wilmington on September 14, 2018. #

Rescue workers from Township No. 7 Fire Department and volunteers from the Civilian Crisis Response Team use a boat to rescue a woman and her dog from their flooded home on September 14, 2018, in James City, Virginia. #

A fire hydrant sits submerged in a flooded street as Tropical Depression Florence continues to dump heavy rain over the area in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on September 16, 2018. #

People wait in line to fill up their gas cans at a gas station that was damaged when Hurricane Florence hit the area on September 15, 2018, in Wilmington, North Carolina. #

Gloria Sanders, 87, is helped by members of the Nebraska Task Force 1 urban search-and-rescue team as they evacuate an assisted-living facility to a church as a precaution against potential flooding in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018. #

A Lumberton firefighter holds on to two nursing-home patients as a member of the Cajun Navy drives his truck during the evacuation of a nursing home in Lumberton, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018. Besides federal and state emergency crews, rescuers were being helped by volunteers from the Cajun Navy—civilians equipped with light boats, canoes, and air mattresses—who also turned up in Houston during Hurricane Harvey to carry out water rescues. #

The rescue-team member Sergeant Nick Muhar, from the North Carolina National Guard 1/120th battalion, evacuates a young child as the rising floodwaters from Hurricane Florence threaten his home in New Bern on September 14, 2018. #

A neighbor takes photographs of a boat smashed against a garage, left there by the high winds and storm surge of Hurricane Florence, along the Neuse River in New Bern on September 15, 2018. #

Obrad Gavrilovic peers out the window of his flooded home while considering whether to leave with his wife and pets, as waters rise in Bolivia, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018. #

Jordan McKeon leaves his kayak as his friend Nathaniel Harrison holds onto a stalled car that became stranded in rising floodwaters while trying to cross an inundated bridge in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018. #

Eric Edwards Jr. (left) and Elliott Farmer Jr. look at their phone while resting on an inflatable mattress in a storm shelter at Washington Street United Methodist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, on September 14, 2018. #