{"id":876512,"date":"2026-10-09T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876512\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:50:12","slug":"north-carolina-prepares-for-impact-of-hurricane-isaias-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876512\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina prepares for impact of Hurricane Isaias :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communities along the Gulf Coast are preparing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/weather\/hurricane-season-2026-tracking-the-tropics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Isaias to make landfall Friday evening<\/a>, and North Carolina officials have announced a storm response plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many Florida residents are evacuating before the storm hits. Thousands of cars are sitting on the interstate around Pensacola waiting to leave the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Isaias will likely bring heavy rainfall, flash flooding and severe weather to North Carolina, especially to areas like Wilmington and Western North Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, emergency crews in North Carolina are preparing for impacts on our state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our urban search and rescue teams have been placed on a state mission order in key locations Saturday, just to make sure they&#8217;re ready for a quick response,&#8221; said Justin Graney with the North Carolina Emergency Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While experts say this storm shouldn&#8217;t hit North Carolina like Hurricane Helene, they are preparing for the worst.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The best way to prepare for the upcoming storm is to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/weather\/hurricane-survival-kit-how-to-keep-your-family-safe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plan and gather emergency supplies.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communities along the Gulf Coast are preparing for Hurricane Isaias to make landfall Friday evening, and North Carolina&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,18845,368770,368458,79,89341],"class_list":["post-876512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-hurricane-basics","tag-hurricane-isaias","tag-science","tag-western-nc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}