Waiting on an unfinished modular home in nearby Pikeville, Artis is among hundreds of low-income homeowners enrolled with the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency who are living in temporary accommodations years after the 2016 storm and Hurricane Florence in 2018.Ī bipartisan General Assembly committee tasked with investigating these delays in disaster relief held its first meeting Wednesday - the four-year anniversary of when Florence made landfall in North Carolina.Ĭo-chair Rep. I don’t give up because I got to help my wife.” I take everything I can get right down the road to see her, to take care of her. “The house and all the furniture, it’s gone, it’s rotten. “We stayed sick for a year,” he said in an interview. 14, 2022, on the four-year anniversary of when Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina. A new bipartisan General Assembly committee tasked with investigating the delays holds its first meeting Wednesday, Sept. Nearly six years after extreme rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Matthew damaged many North Carolina homes, some homeowners are still left waiting on repairs. (Casey Mozingo/The Goldsboro News-Argus via AP, File) Casey Mozingo/AP Show More Show Less 5 of8 FILE - Homeowner Jennifer Baker walks through the front door of her home damaged by Hurricane Florence in 2018 while repairs continue in Spring Lake, N.C., Tuesday, July 2, 2019. (Casey Mozingo/The Goldsboro News-Argus via AP, File) Casey Mozingo/AP Show More Show Lessģ of8 4 of8 FILE - Several abandoned vehicles sit in flood waters caused by Hurricane Matthew at the intersection of John and Benton streets in Goldsboro, N.C., Monday, Oct.

(Casey Mozingo/The Goldsboro News-Argus via AP, File) Casey Mozingo/AP Show More Show Less 2 of8 FILE - A portion of Wood Peck Road near Bradshaw's Garage outside of Goldsboro, N.C., washed away due to flood waters caused by Hurricane Matthew in 2016. 1 of8 FILE - Floodwaters from the Neuse River surround several homes after Hurricane Matthew in the western part of Wayne County near Goldsboro, N.C., Tuesday, Oct.

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