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Hurricane Florence Drives Some Residents to Give Up on This Disaster-Prone Town

  • Tiny Princeville, North Carolina, losing residents for good
  • Hit by Matthew and Floyd, townspeople offered federal buyouts
Hurricane Florence Forces Millions to Evacuate North Carolina
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In the main room of her trailer, the one she bought for $78,000 after Hurricane Matthew destroyed her last home in 2016, Lillie Gunter is getting ready to flee Princeville, North Carolina, for the third time in two decades.

And she says she isn’t coming back.