http://www.newsweek.com/north-carolina-fears-hurricane-florence-may-be-another-floyd-1999s-deadly-1117981

Floyd had weakened to a Category 2 storm by the time it hit North Carolina, but it dumped torrential rainfall that caused flooding that lasted for weeks. The storm's path also took it across the Bahamas, Virginia and New Jersey. The storm and its associated flooding left 57 people dead and caused $6.5 billion in damage. 

Rivers in the eastern part of the state exceeded 500-year flooding records, killing hundreds of thousands of poultry and pigs and contaminating waterways with animal carcasses and manure. The shocking photos in this slideshow show the impact of flooding in North Carolina as well as New Jersey and Virginia.