Power outages, potential flooding emerge as Irene's major impacts on southeast coast!

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From staff reports, starnewsonline.com / Last Modified: Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 1:34 p.m..

A downed tree in Surf City on Saturday./ Buy Photo, Photo by Matt Born.

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Widespread power outages and the potential for serious flooding in Pender County have emerged as the most significant impacts of Hurricane Irene in Southeastern North Carolina.

As of 11 a.m., Progress Energy reported about 43,300 New Hanover County customers still without power, along with 8,800 in Pender County and 7,200 in Brunswick.

Spokesman Mike Hughes said while power is being restored to some areas, others are experiencing new outages.

“Generally the numbers in the south coastal area are going down a little bit,” Hughes said.

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