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    How one North Carolina town stayed dry during Florence

    Sep 17, 2018 5 minutes
    Henry Williams of Swan Quarter, N.C., shown with his cat Tom-Tom, credits an 18-mile-long dike for keeping their remote coastal town dry. Mr. Williams, the caretaker of the dike, is a Trump supporter who questions man-made global warming but says sea level rise is real.

    Neighbors J.W. Raburn and Henry Williams are political polar opposites. Mr. Raburn says he may have been the only one in this sound-side hamlet to have voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Mr. Williams voted for President Trump.

    But the two lifelong friends – along with about 300 or so other North Carolinians who call Swan Quarter home – stood united this weekend against hurricane Florence.

    Nearby Oriental, New Bern, and large parts of central North Carolina were devastated when up to 40 inches of rain fell, swelling rivers that are expected to crest later this week. Tens of thousands of residents were displaced, and at least 23 people died.

    Yet Swan Quarter, which used to flood regularly and was fully drenched by 2003’s hurricane Isabel, stayed largely dry. Sure, Raburn had readied his sailboat, Blue Heaven, as a possible escape. And

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