Source: Ron Smith, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 12/4/18


Steve Troxler, North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, didn’t mince words in detailing the destruction Hurricane Florence left in her wake as she made landfall on Wrightsville Beach Sept. 14 and refused to leave.“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Troxler said to Southern Crop Protection Association (SCPA) members at the organization’s annual meeting Nov. 12 in Asheville, N.C. “Words can’t describe the unbelievable devastation. It is a catastrophe,” he said. “Florence came ashore as a Category 1 storm, but just sat there, and sat there, and sat there.”

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