Images from NASA’s camera on the International Space Station and NOAA satellite images show powerful Hurricane Florence as she churns towards the east coast. Highways clogged with people fleeing North and South Carolina early Wednesday as Florence rumbled toward the eastern US as the biggest storm there in decades. While many coastal residents heeded mandatory evacuation orders, others boarded up homes and businesses and chose to brave the storm, which is forecast to trigger severe flash flooding as it dumps as many as three feet (almost a meter) of rain in some areas. Life-threatening storm surges of up to a staggering 13 feet in some places were also forecast.