North Carolina deals with catastropic flooding Published January 4, 2019 at 1000 × 667 in North Carolina deals with catastropic flooding U.S. 421 near the Pender-New Hanover County line is washed out on Friday, September 21, 2018 as a result of floodwaters from Hurricane Florence dumping over 20 inches of rain into the Black River and the Cape Fear River.