Flooded NC town of Windsor expected to remain under water for days after East Coast storm

NC town remains under water after East Coast storm

WINDSOR, N.C. — A badly flooded city in North Carolina is expected to remain under water for several more days after drenching storms moved up the East Coast last week.

The state Emergency Response Team says much of Windsor in northeast North Carolina remained waterlogged. The downtown was evacuated last week along with more than 40 residents from a nursing home.

Two buffalo driven from a petting zoo by flooding were being kept in a fenced area of a town park while the city figures out what to do with them.

Gov. Beverly Perdue visited Windsor on Sunday, comparing the damage to that caused by flooding from Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

The rain is being blamed for at least six deaths in North Carolina traffic accidents.