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Updated: September 18th at 5:30 pm
The number of victims of Hurricane Florence reached 34 with 26 in North Carolina, 6 in South Carolina and two in Virginia, after a man from Virginia was killed on Tuesday in a flash flood caused by the remnants of the storm.
The deaths include people who drowned, were electrocuted, crushed by trees, were submerged by precipitating water, were "thrown by the wind" or had carbon monoxide poisoning, media and government agencies.
Quoting the Virginia State Police, Virginia's media, including The Daily Progress, reported that 59-year-old Richard Edward Kelih Jr. of Louisa County died Tuesday morning when his pick-up was scheduled to take place. is spilled during a flash flood.
The North Carolina Public Security Department confirmed that his account was at 26 hours Tuesday afternoon, but did not have any additional information on the death in Pender County.
The death toll rose on Monday morning when a man's body was found in the flood waters of Union County, North Carolina. The WSOC reported that the body was found next to a submerged car during the storm. The car was found off Landsford Road in the Marshville area, reported WBTV. The sheriff's office said on Facebook that the death was weather related.
In a death unrelated to Union County, the one-year-old Kaiden Lee-Welch's body was found Monday after being "swept away by the waters of Richardson Creek."
The death occurred after the child's mother had "bypassed the barricades on Highway 218 and continued to drive east until her vehicle ran into water running down the road. road, "said a post on a sheriff's desk. "She managed to free herself and Kaiden, who was in a car seat, but lost her grip on the water in a hurry."
Kade Gill, 3 months old, died Sunday in Dallas, after a tree fell into a family's mobile home and hit the boy and his mother while they were sitting on a couch, reported Charlotte Observer. Her mother, Tammy Gill, was hospitalized for life-threatening injuries, said the observer.
The first child died of the storm was a 7-month-old baby killed Friday morning in Wilmington, also by a fallen tree in a house. The 41-year-old mother of the child was hit and killed by the same tree, a tweet from the Wilmington police said.
Among the other deaths:
- A 68-year-old victim was electrocuted Friday in Lenoir County, while she "was trying to connect two extensions to the outside in the rain," reported the WNCN television channel.
- A 77-year-old man from Kinston died Thursday at 8 am while he was "flipped over by the wind" while he was busy with dogs, WNCN reported.
- Three people died in Duplin County "due to flash floods and high-water on the roads," WNCN reported. The three incidents involved people being "carried away" in vehicles, the station reported.
- An 81-year-old man from Wayne County died Friday during his evacuation, the Associated Press reported.
- A couple, both 86 years old, died Friday in a fire in Cumberland County, according to the Fayetteville observer.
- On Sunday, a 61-year-old man on a moped was killed during his evacuation in Columbus County, according to the governor's office.
- A 56-year-old man died Sunday in Cleveland County after his tractor-trailer landed, left the road and rolled over, according to a statement from the governor's office.
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A 56 year old Onslow County man was found on his back porch. He fell and the house showed water damage and leaks, said a statement from the governor's office.
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A 25-year-old man from Gaston County died on Saturday while walking around as an "unrestrained passenger" in an SUV that was "traveling too fast in the rain," according to a statement from the governor's office.
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A 73-year-old man was found Sunday in a submerged vehicle in Scotland County, the governor's office said.
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Duplin County had a fourth death, involving a person who died in a vehicle taken by road, said the governor's office. The body was discovered during a recovery operation for another victim, officials said.
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A 73-year-old man from Sampson County died of COPD, but the governor's office said his death was related to the storm because he no longer had electricity for his oxygen concentrator.
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A 62-year-old man died in Sampson County after collapsing while assisting an evacuee, according to the governor's office.
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A 65-year-old man was found in a submerged vehicle in Scotland County, the governor's office said.
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According to the governor's office, a 37-year-old man died in a car accident on the yellow line and struck another vehicle in Onslow County.
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An 83-year-old man died in a road accident due to driving on a dilapidated roadway and colliding with a cement culvert, the governor's office reported.
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In Anson County on Monday, the NC Road Patrol announced that a vehicle had been washed away by the road. the vehicle was occupied by one person whose body had been recovered from the vehicle.
In South Carolina, deaths also included several drivers who crashed after encountering floodwaters or fallen trees.
- The Associated Press reported that a 61-year-old woman died Friday when her vehicle struck a fallen tree above Highway 18 near the Union.
- Georgetown County coroner Kenny Johnson said Sunday that Michael Dalton Prince, 23, was drowned in his truck when he spilled in high water, according to the Sun News of Myrtle Beach. .
- On Sunday morning, the Department of Public Security of the S.C. Jeffery B. Youngren, 42, of Elgin, died in Kershaw County when a pickup truck left I-20 north of Columbia. and hit a viaduct support beam. Coroner David A. West said "the weather played a big role in his death."
- In Horry County, the coroner's office confirmed that 61-year-old Debra Collins Rion and 63-year-old Mark Carter King had succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning from their generator, The (Myrtle Beach ) Sun News.
- On Sunday morning, the Lexington County Coroner reported that Rhonda Rebecca Hartley, 30, of Leesville, died when a pickup truck encountered water on Pond Branch Road and slipped into a tree, reports WIS.
The first death in Virginia was confirmed Monday. A person died when a building collapsed, according to a tweet from the Chesterfield Fire / EMS Public Information Officer, Lt. Jason Elmore.
Other deaths have been reported but not directly related to the storm.
On Monday, authorities reported that one person had died in a flood shelter in New Hanover County, but it was not clear whether this death should be counted among the deaths due to the storm. , reported WECT.
The Wilmington Star News reported that the death occurred at Hoggard High School, where a shelter had been set up for the evacuees.
Other deaths not directly related to the storm include a woman who died in a shelter and a woman who had a heart attack and died during the storm while waiting for an ambulance, reported the Associated Press.
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