I’m just so tired.”Access improved to Wilmington, a North Carolina port city of 120,000 that was cut off for days by high water. North Carolina officials said some 7,800 people remained in shelters, down from about 10,000 on Monday despite Gov. About 161,000 homes and businesses were still without electricity in North Carolina, around a quarter of them in the county where Wilmington is located. ——Collins reported from Columbia, South Carolina. AP photographer Chuck Burton in Sampson County, North Carolina, and AP writer Jay Reeves in Atlanta contributed to this report.

Source: National Post September 19, 2018 20:24 UTC