Kinston residents say 'enough already'
THE WATER COMPLETELY COVERED
THE CARS IN THIS JUNKYARD.
IN KIPSTON, FLOODS SET A RECORD
FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW.
THIS IS MORE THAN A FOOT DEEP
ARE THAN IT WAS YESTERDAY.
OUR BRYAN MIMS SPENT THE DAY ON
THE GROUND IN KINSTON AND JOIN
US LIVE TO SHOW YOU WHAT IT
LOOKS LIKE THERE.
BRYAN.
>> Reporter: THE RIVER IS
WASHING OVER VING HILL STREET.
THE RIVER IS SET TO PEAK AT
JUST UNDER 29 FEET SOMETIME
AROUND DAYBREAK TOMORROW.
DOWNTOWN IS MOSTLY DRY BUT A
LITTLE WAYS WEST OF HERE, IT IS
ANYTHING BUT.
OUT HERE ALONG KENNEDY HOME
ROAD WHERE THREE PIGS ROOT
ARNOT EDGE OF GRIMY WATER,
THERE IS A COLLECTIVE SENSE OF
ENOUGH ALREADY.
IT HAS BEEN NEARLY A WEEK SINCE
THE STORM SLAPPED THEIR TREES
AROUND AND SPEWED WATER IN
PLACES IT DOESN'T BELONG.
THE SUN AND POWER RETURNED.
THINGS DRIED OUT.
ONLY FOR THE WATER TO COME
SWIRLING IN AGAIN.
THE NEUSE RIVER IS CRESTING IN
LENOIR COUNTY.
CURTIS WIGGINS SAW THE WATER
SWEEP IN.
>> RIGHT THERE WHERE THE GRASS
IS, YOU COULDN'T SEE FOR GRASS
THERE.
JUST FLOWING OVER THE ROAD
THERE, MAN.
IT WAS LIKE LIVING A NIGHTMARE.
>> Reporter: 43 YEARS HE HAS
LIVED OUT HERE NEAR THE BEND OF
THE NEUSE RIVER.
LIKE EVERY IN EASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA, HURRICANE FLOYD IS
THE GREAT BENCHMARK.
HE NEVER SAW THE WATER RISE
THIS HIGH BACK IN '99.
HAD YOU HOME IS DRY BUT THESE
NEARBY MOBILE HOMES HAD WATER
ABOVE THE DOORS ON.
THURSDAY, RESCUE CREWS CAME IN
TO CARRY PEOPLE OUT.
>> IT WAS ALMOST HEART BREAKING
TO JUST -- YOU KNOW, WHAT
EVERYBODY HAS LOST NOT ONLY
AROUND HERE BUT IN EASTERN
NORTH CAROLINA.
>> Reporter: KINSTON IS A CITY
DIVIDED BY THE RIVER.
THERE IS NO GETTING ACROSS THE
NEUSE AT ANY OF THE BRIMS.
LOOK AT U.S. 70.
-- ANY OF THE BRIDGES.
ONLY MILITARY TRUCKS AND
EMERGENCY PICKUPS DARE CROSS
IT.
BOBBY BROWN'S MOM OWNS THESE
FLOODED MOBILE HOMES.
>> JUST TRYING TO RIDE THESE
THINGS OUT.
>> Reporter: YOU GETTING
EXHAUSTED?
>> I'M MENTALLY WORE OUT FROM
THIS WHOLE THING.
JUST STRESSED AND EVERYTHING.
>> Reporter: ENOUGH ALREADY
INDEED.
BECAUSE THE CITY IS EFFECTIVELY
CUT IN TWO, A MOBILE EMERGENCY
DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN SET UP ON
THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE RIVER TO
SERVE PEOPLE WHO CANNOT GET TO
THE HOSPITAL WHICH IS ON THE
NORTH SIDE OF THE NEUSE RIVER.
WE DESTROYED TO GET THERE TODAY
BUT WERE TOLD THAT WE WOULD
HAVE TO TAKE A TWO-HOUR DETOUR.
OF COURSE, THERE ARE SHELTER ON
EITHER SIDE OF THE RIVER AS
WELL.
WITH THAT CREST SET TO COME
AROUND DAYBREAK.
>> UNBELIEVABLE PICTURES THERE.