Source: Laura Leslie, WRAL, 10/9/19

State lawmakers said Wednesday they will help residents of storm-ravaged Ocracoke Island, even as federal emergency officials declined to provide additional help for families who lost everything in Hurricane Dorian last month. The hurricane’s floodwaters all but destroyed the small island’s K-12 school. Classes restarted just this week in alternate locations on Ocracoke while the school is being gutted and refurbished.

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