`I knew I wasn´t alone´: North Carolina nurse looks back on Hurricane Florence
(WorldNews Business)

(BPT) - One year ago, North Carolina native and licensed practical nurse Shannon Lanier found herself caught in a storm that seemed otherworldly. Hurricane Florence had arrived. And with it came more than two feet of rain in her hometown of Wilmington. Lanier had listened to all the warnings and knew this had the potential to be a big one. But she´d never evacuated before. Her plan was to wait out the hurricane in her 30-year-old house at the end of a cul-de-sac near the Cape Fear River. A few hours after Florence made landfall, rising water levels forced Lanier, her roommate and their...