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What was the effect of Hurricane Floyd in North Carolina?

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Answer:Floyd produced a storm tide over 10 feet high across the Cape Fear area beaches, destroying many beachfront homes, businesses, and piers, and causing severe beach erosion. In North Carolina, a total of 537,000 homes and businesses lost power during the storm.

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Answer: Hurricane Floyd caused lots a floods over a period of several weeks.

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Hurricane Floyd made hurricane Dennis even worse. By the pass of hurricane Dennis there was already around 10 inches of rain which Hurricane Floyd (made it worse by) over saturating the soil and caused flooding ¨...nearly every river basin in the eastern part of the state exceeded 500-year flood levels¨

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