A tender photo shows an elderly couple holding hands in the back of an ambulance as they are evacuated ahead of Hurricane Florence.
The couple were rushed out of a nursing home in Beaufort County, South Carolina on Thursday, as the evacuation window for more than 1.7 million people under mandatory orders closed rapidly.
In South Carolina, more than 400,000 people have evacuated the state's coast and more than 4,000 people have taken refuge in shelters, officials said. Myrtle Beach, a top tourist destination, was a practical ghost town by Thursday evening.
In Beaufort, North Carolina, Mayor Everette Newton told CNN that it is now 'too late' to get out for those who haven't already.
'It's really dangerous out right now, with lots of limbs coming down, lots of debris going around,' he explained. 'They need to shelter in place.'
An elderly couple hold hands as they are evacuated by ambulance from a nursing home in South Carolina on Thursday
People sit at a bar and drink during a 'Hurricane Party' as Hurricane Florence comes ashore on Wilmington, North Carolina. Officials are now saying that for many coastal areas, it is 'too late' to evacuate and residents must now shelter in place
Locals have a drink as they hunker down at the Barbary Coast bar in downtown Wilmington as Florence threatens the coast
A radar map shows the outer bands of Florence begin to lash the North Carolina coast on Thursday evening
All of North Carolina's famed Outer Banks and barrier islands are under mandatory evacuation, though not all residents heeded the orders.
In Wrightsville Beach, an island near Wilmington, Police Chief Dan House said a handful of residents on the island have refused evacuation orders.
He's telling them they 'better go ahead and give me your next of kin' information, because no one will rescue them at the height of the storm.
As of 5pm Thursday, the Category 2 storm was centered about 100 miles east-southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina, and about 155 miles east of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Its forward movement was 5 mph and top sustained winds stayed at 100 mph.
Florence's outer bands of wind and rain began lashing North Carolina on Thursday.
Its center will approach the coast later Thursday and make landfall around the North Carolina-South Carolina line.
Jeff Egyp (left) marches along the Cape Fear River as Hurricane Florence hits Wilmington, North Carolina on Thursday
A police car drives through an intersection after the traffic lights went out as rain falls in Wilmington on Thursday
North Carolina felt the first bite of monster Hurricane Florence on Thursday morning as the outer bands of wind and rain from the life-threatening storm bore down on the US east coast
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say the storm will weaken after landfall but also linger, dumping heavy rains for days.
The National Hurricane Center says Florence could dump 20 to 30 inches of rain, with some places getting as much as 40 inches.
Florence's hurricane-force winds were blowing 80 miles from its center, and tropical-storm-force winds reached up to 195 miles from the eye.
Life-threatening storm surges of up to 13 feet were also forecast in some areas along with the possibility of tornadoes in North Carolina.
In North Carolina, 68,892 homes had already lost power on Thursday evening as heavy winds began to lash the coast, officials said. The top counties affected were Carteret, Craven, New Hanover, Onslow and Pamlico.
Duke Energy said Florence could knock out electricity to three-quarters of its 4 million customers in the Carolinas, and outages could last for weeks.
Marge Brown, 65, says goodbye to her father, George Brown, 90, before he is evacuated from a healthcare home in Morehead City, N.C., Wednesday as Hurricane Florence approaches the east coast. 'I'd like to stay and see what happens. I'm 90 plus,' said Brown, a WWII veteran who says he's survived a plane crash and severe burns from a laboratory fire where he once worked
People are seen inside a shelter run by Red Cross before Florence comes ashore in Grantsboro, North Carolina on Thursday
Hurricane Florence evacuees try to rest inside a Red Cross shelter in Grantsboro, North Carolina on Thursday
In Wilmington, Bertha Bradley said she has never favored evacuating ahead of hurricanes. Only one storm scared them enough to leave the island. But the traffic was awful.
'I said, 'Why get on the road like this? I'm going to get killed on the road,'' Bradley said. 'I should stay in my house, where I have water and food. If God's coming for you, you can't run from him.'
In a trailer park outside Wilmington, Alondra Espinoza was preparing to leave with her two young children.
'Everything is packed,' Espinoza said. 'I want to get them as far away as possible. I've been through hurricanes before but never with kids. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have minded staying here.'
Their entire neighborhood evacuated in Wilmington, David and Janelle Garrigus planned to ride out Florence at their daughter's one-bedroom apartment in Charlotte. Unsure of what they might find when they return home, the couple went shopping for a recreational vehicle.
'We're just trying to plan for the future here, not having a house for an extended period of time,' David Garrigus said.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is mostly empty as Hurricane Florence threatens the coast on Tuesday
This image taken from video shows storm surge expert Hal Needham, on Thursday in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Even if a house is elevated 10 feet, 'there's a good chance there's going to be water inside of it,' Needham said
Melody Rawson evacuated her first-floor apartment in Myrtle Beach and arrived at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia, to camp for free with three other adults, her disabled son, two dogs and a pet bird.
'We hope to have something left when we get home,' she said.
Hog farmers along the East Coast were scrambling earlier this week to drain their waste pools ahead of the storm. Hog farms each have open-air 'lagoons' filled with manure - which turn bright pink due to the bacteria festering in the lagoons.
If the rivers break their banks, or lagoons overflow, affecting local waterways, which could damage to local environment and put drinking water sources and public health at risk.
Waves crash around the Oceana Pier in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina as the outer edges of Hurricane Florence being to affect the coast on Thursday
Huge waves lashed the beaches of North Carolina as the hurricane rolling in bringing heavy rain
Flooding could also lead to the deaths of thousands of animals if they cannot be evacuated in time.
Marlowe Vaughan of Ivy Spring Creek Farm in Goldsboro, spent most of Tuesday pumping liquid waste from her lagoons to make more room for incoming rainfall.
'We try to pump down as much as we can, but after that, it's kind of in God's hands. We're kind of at the mercy of the storm.'
A private weather-forecasting firm is estimating that Hurricane Florence will cause $50 billion to $60 billion in economic damages.
Drone footage and dashcam show eerily quiet Myrtle Beach as coastal cities are deserted after 1.7 million people are told to flee Hurricane Florence
By Rory Tingle for DailyMail.com
The popular resort city of Myrtle Beach in South Carolina should be bustling with late-summer tourists, but its streets and sidewalks are eerily quiet, and the Ferris wheel in the seaside amusement park lies still.
Drone and dashcam video shows many of the city's 32,000 residents have already left before Hurricane Florence, joining 300,000 fellow South Carolinians who followed evacuation orders issued on Wednesday to 1.7 million people.
The mandatory orders applied to most of the South Carolina coast and parts of North Carolina and Virginia.
'Myrtle Beach is like a ghost town. We've only lived here three years but we have friends that have lived here their entire life and have never experienced or seen the town so eerie,' on resident, Rodger Maybey, told Stuff.
Drone video taken on Wednesday evening in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, shows the usually bustling city is virtually deserted
Many of the city's residents appear to have joined the 300,000 South Carolinians that evacuated on Wednesday
Florence weakened to a category two hurricane over Wednesday night, but forecasters warned it still posed the threat of 110mph winds, a life-threatening storm surge and torrential rains.
The center of Florence will approach the coasts of North and South Carolina on Thursday, then move near or over the coast of southern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina on Thursday night and Friday.
In Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, all residents had to leave by 8pm on Wednesday, otherwise there would not be any emergency services assistance provided to them.
Caroline Ciener spent the day boarding up her parent's house. 'We are boarding up today,' she told ABC11.
'It's hot. It's not fun but it's all we can do at this point we are just trying to get everything out of the bottom of the garage as we are sure there is going to be water.'
Officials are predicting Florence could cause $170 billion in property damage, but many businesses are already suffering an economic hit from the loss of business.
Dashcam video from Myrtle Beach (also taken on Wednesday) were largely deserted apart from a few news vans
The same was true for many coastal areas in the Carolinas and Virginia on Wednesday and Thursday morning, after 1.7 million people were ordered to evacuate. Pictured: Myrtle Beach
Chapel Hill has been hit by the closure of the University of North Carolina, with its 55,600 staff and students ordered to evacuate and the first football game of the year called off.
The cancellation of the game alone will take away $8 million in potential economic benefit from the local areas.
'With the campus closed and the football game cancelled, there's a lot of anxiety at local businesses,' local chamber of commerce CEO Aaron Nelson told CBS.
'UNC only has about six home games every season and losing one of those is a really big deal.'
The historic port city of Charleston, South Carolina, saw heavy flooding during Tropical Storm Irma last year, and officials are warning the impact of Florence is expected to be worse.
Many of the city's residents had gone by Wednesday, joining 300,000 of their fellow South Carolinians also fleeing that day.
Many of the residents of Charleston had gone by Wednesday, joining 300,000 of their fellow South Carolinians also fleeing that day.
Charleston (pictured on Wednesday night) saw heavy flooding during Tropical Storm Irma last year, and officials are warning the impact of Florence is expected to be worse
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