As floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew surrounded Dorothy Moore’s Red Springs home of 39 years, all she could do was turn to the heavens.
“I’m standing there and the water’s just rising, and it’s coming really fast,” Moore recalled. “And I’m like, oh, my God. And I just started praying.”
Matthew left her roof in shambles, with water damage throughout the inside of her home.
“To have all that water come and all that damage and not be in a flood zone, that was, that was something else,” Moore said.
Structurally, the foundation, the bricks, were split.
She tried to rebuild, but then Hurricane Florence came and wiped away all the work that she had done and then some.
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Insurance only covered so much, leaving her house unsafe to live in, so she applied for and got approved for a state-run program known as Rebuild NC.
The program, backed by federal dollars, helps low-income homeowners repair or rebuild their hurricane-damaged homes.