Source: Reaghan Waites, NC CIVITAS, 7/9/19


“It’s hard, you know. My little girl goes to Princeville school and when I told her that the school actually got flooded, the reaction on her face totally broke my heart” said Latasha Wilkins, Princeville resident. The town of Princeville sits adjacent to the Tar River. Nearly 75 percent of housing in the town was damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Matthew. The flooding forced Wilkins and her three children out of their rental home and into a Red Cross shelter in a high school gym.

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