And all have just offered their homes to some of the more than 1 million people facing mandatory evacuation orders as Hurricane Florence takes aim at the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. In recent days, Facebook groups such as Hurricane Florence 2018 and Hurricane Florence Lodging For Evacuees have hosted dozens of posts from people and organizations offering shelter to those fleeing the Category 5 storm. He and his family live in Waynesville, North Carolina -- in the western part of the state -- and are opening their house to a couple or small family. And then we started getting phone call after phone call from friends and friends of friends that had nowhere to go," she said. "We have already received one request from a nursing home from the North Carolina coastal region for 10 dogs or so."

Source: CNN September 11, 2018 15:26 UTC