NEW BERN, N.C.—From his seat on the back of a small boat, Robert Simmons Jr. surveyed the floodwater in his neighbourhood in northwest New Bern. Robert Simmons Jr. and his kitten Survivor are rescued Friday from floodwaters after Hurricane Florence dumped several inches of rain. “We done been through Bertha, Fran, Irene, Matthew,” he said Friday afternoon, sitting in the small boat and ticking off the names of hurricanes that had come through his part of eastern North Carolina. The kitten clung to Simmons, as if a newborn clinging to his mother, and while Simmons spoke, the kitten mewed. And yet, Simmons said, “He wanted to wait it out.” “I didn’t want him to wait it out,” Simmons said.

Source: thestar September 15, 2018 23:03 UTC