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Flooding after Hurricane Floyd

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Photo by Dave Gatley/FEMA News Photo

Date created
September 24, 1999
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Original image housed by NOAA

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boat in floodwaters

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Greenville, NC 9/24/1999 — The Tar River still has communities stranded in its flooding waters as shown here in Pactolus, just North of Greenville. This family can only reach their flooded home by boat.