By Sarah Kaplan, Scott Wilson, Kristine Phillips/Washington Post News Service
LUMBERTON - The call went out through Facebook at a little past noon on Friday: Volunteers needed immediately to fill sandbags and dam up a railway channel where floodwaters have emerged before.
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