The National Hurricane Center considers a Category 3 and above to be a major storm because of the potential for destructive damage and loss of life.
ABC7, the ABC Owned Television stations and our parent company, The Walt Disney Company, raised over $1 million for Hurricane Florence relief.
Rescuers said the horses were "tired, scared, confused" and had "not much left in them" when volunteers found them.
PETA volunteers rescued the dog, Max, from a Lumberton home after Hurricane Florence had moved through.
The death toll from Hurricane Florence climbed to at least 37, including two mental health patients who drowned when a sheriff's van was swept away by floodwaters.
Three strangers jumped into action as a man and woman were screaming for help, just before the woman was swept off a bridge by rushing floodwaters.