Rain on a window in the early morning hours in Wilmington, N.C., on Sept. 14, 2018. Hurricane Florence, lashing the North Carolina coast with strong winds and blinding rain, made landfall Friday morning having already driven dangerous storm surges of several feet into beach and river towns. The eye of the storm came ashore at Wrightsville Beach, N.C., just east of Wilmington, with winds of about 90 miles an hour. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times)