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When Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina last September, Capt. Mike Stream and the Maryland Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (MD-HART) were dispatched to Wilmington. The damage of the hurricane was vast. When Stream and his team were onboard an airship, a levee in the area broke. The team was able to rescue nine people and a […]

Sue Palka, chief meteorologist for FOX5 and Montgomery County resident, tells MyMCMedia what the county should expect from Hurricane Florence.

Hurricane Florence won’t be much of a hurricane when it grazes Montgomery County later this week. Maryland is expected to get scattered showers through the weekend from the storm, National Weather Service meteorologist Jeremy Geiger said Wednesday. Given the shift that #HurricaneFlorence has made to South, the risks to MD and Montgomery County are diminished. […]

The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday afternoon that Hurricane Florence, packing 130 mph winds, was getting more organized and increasing in size. The earliest reasonable time that tropical-storm-force winds could arrive in the United States from #Florence is late Wednesday, and the most likely time is Thursday morning. Wednesday should be the last full day […]