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Florence Evacuees Face 4 Nights In A Shelter, And No End In Sight

Residents who evacuated early in the week have already been sleeping in shelters for days. But Tropical Storm Florence still has days of rain and wind to go.
Candace and Lawanda Jones are taking shelter at Conway High School in Conway, S.C.

Lawanda Jones' house near Myrtle Beach, S.C., is next to a large, lovely tree. Earlier this week, as Jones listened to the evacuation orders and hurricane warnings piling up, she looked at that tree and thought: what if

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