First Hurricane Matthew, then Florence: A town in constant recovery

Priscilla McKindley, the matriarch of a multi-generational family of 11, sells leather goods at an outdoor flea market. When Hurricane Matthew flooded the area, she lost her first car and her business inventory. She replaced them. Then Florence came, and McKindley lost it all again.

Priscilla McKindley, the matriarch of a multi-generational family of 11, sells leather goods at an outdoor flea market. When Hurricane Matthew flooded the area, she lost her first car and her business inventory. She replaced them. Then Florence came, and McKindley lost it all again.

She has spent the past month preparing for hip replacement surgery and caring for her great grandsons, Trulyn and Trystan, whose schools closed after the flood. McKindley fears the insurance company soon will stop paying for the rental car she got after the storm. She can’t afford to buy a new car yet, she said, and rain from Hurricane Michael disrupted her flea market income.

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