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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Sep 20, 2018, 03:20 PM Sep 2018

Florence death toll climbs to 37; Trump visits stricken area

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The death toll from Hurricane Florence climbed to at least 37, including two women who drowned when a sheriff’s van taking them to a mental health facility was swept away by floodwaters, and North Carolina’s governor pleaded with thousands of evacuees not to return home just yet.

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, arrived in storm-ravaged North Carolina on Wednesday and helped volunteers at a church in the hard-hit coastal town of New Bern.

“How’s the house?” Trump was heard asking one person as distributed plastic foam containers of food, including hot dogs, chips and fruit. “You take care of yourself.”

Wilmington, population 120,000, was still mostly an island surrounded by floodwaters, and people waited for hours Tuesday for handouts of food, water and tarps. Thousands of others around the state waited in shelters for the all-clear.

https://apnews.com/108e14b89b964417beaec551ed01e691/Florence-death-toll-climbs-to-37;-Trump-visits-stricken-area

Did Trump throw those containers?

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Florence death toll climbs to 37; Trump visits stricken area (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP
Drumph will declare that any deaths that happened after his visit were fake deaths. (n/t) royable Sep 2018 #1
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