already under way. cnn s kaylee hartung is live in wilmington, north carolina. you have been speaking with folks not just on the beach yesterday. today you re at some of the stores. are people really starting to heed the warnings and get prepared? they are, erica. we re seeing shelves clear from savannah, georgia, up the carolina coast, into virginia. this home improvement store behind me selling out of the generators that they restocked this morning. getting more on the floor as soon as they can. water, bread, and milk. those types of hurricane necessities, emptying out in grocery stores across the area. but people here recognize this storm, as ched mentioned, isn t just a threat to the coast. you also have to be concerned with areas inland. we talked to one lowe s home improvement store an hour and a half inland from where we are here in wilmington, north carolina, a store in lumberton, north carolina, that sold more than 200 generators in the past day. so many people here preparin
days. allison, i know you will, thank you so much. and people certainly are taking heed to these warnings, to be prepared. stores quickly trying to re-stock supplies like water, groceries, plywood, wieven gasoline. a lowe s in north carolina actually sold out of generators, they re telling us, in about 20 hours. north carolina has requested federal disaster declarations. and south carolina just deployed 800 members of the national guard ahead of what is expected to be catastrophic flooding. cnn s kaylee hartung is in wilmington, north carolina, where i know people have ridden out many a storm. but a category 4 certainly packs a punch. reporter: yeah, that s right, brooke. and so many stories here are having trouble keeping up their stock with the demand for those hurricane necessities. this lowe s behind me trying to keep their generators in stock as best they can, but they have been the most in-demand item. and many people here, first-time generator buyers, because any of the long