Hurricane Florence's leading edge started lashing the Carolina coast on Thursday with huge waves crashing in and at least 12,000 people already without power. The monster Category 2 storm closed in with 105mph winds as forecasters warned that the widening storm - and its likelihood of lingering around the coast for days - would bring life-threatening storm surge and torrential rains. Forecasters said conditions will only get more lethal as the storm pushes ashore early Friday near the North Carolina-South Carolina line and makes its way slowly inland. Florence is forecast to dump up to 40 inches of rain in some areas after it makes landfall in North and South Carolina Thursday night or Friday. Life-threatening storm surges of up to 13 feet were also forecast in some areas along with the possibility of tornadoes in North Carolina. Businesses and homes in the storm's path were boarded up and thousands of people had moved to emergency shelters by Thursday. Power outages were already creeping up along the North Carolina coast as tropical storm-force winds started sweeping over land. About 12,000 outages were reported statewide as of early Thursday afternoon, with nearly all of them at the coast.

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