The wind is dying down, but the water just keeps coming.

Surging from the ocean, falling from the sky, and overflowing rivers and streams, a weakening Florence continued to swamp the Carolinas on Saturday.

The storm’s death toll climbed to 14, the Charlotte Observer said. Hundreds of thousands remain in danger, officials said. New evacuation orders for inland towns were issued, and officials warned coastal residents it was too soon to return to their homes.

“The rainfall is epic, and will continue to be,” said North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. “We face walls of water, at our coast, along our rivers, across farmland and in our cities and in our towns.”

Although downgraded to a tropical storm, sustained winds up to 45 mph and stronger gusts were still blowing 150 miles from Florence’s center as it slogged across the region at just 3 mph.

Wind damage and flooding affected Myrtle Beach and nearby South Carolina towns in the “Pee Dee region,” or northeastern part of the state, but evacuation orders were lifted for most towns along the southern coast.

North Carolina bore the brunt of Florence’s wrath.

Trees were downed and roofs torn off in Wilmington on the state’s southern coast. About 75 miles north, towns like Swansboro and Morehead City saw significant flooding after more than two feet of rain, which returned in the afternoon after a brief reprieve.

On both sides of the Neuse River, which spills into the Pamlico Sound, rescuers spent a second day rescuing stranded residents in New Bern, N.C. and Fairfield Harbor, which were engulfed in shoulder-high water. The city of New Bern said 69 people were rescued Saturday.

Volunteers with boats, including Louisiana’s famed “Cajun Navy,” joined FEMA crews and police and fire rescue crews from across the state going door-to-door in several other immersed towns. National Guard troops were also involved in rescue missions and providing “high-water vehicles” and aviation. At midday, the state said 23 people had been rescued by air.

New York City’s Urban Search and Rescue Team, made up of close to 100 New York cops and firefighters, were among those helping people escape homes in River Bend, N.C., where more than a foot of water swelled the streets.

The death toll rose to 10 in North Carolina, including three people killed Saturday on a road in flash flooding in inland Duplin County.

The first fatality in South Carolina was a 61-year-old woman killed late Friday when her vehicle struck a tree that had fallen across a highway near the town of Union.

Officials warned residents to stay off the roads, and if they had to drive, to stay clear of flooded thoroughfares, which may get washed away.

“Do not drive through standing water or rushing water,” said Glenn McNeil, commander of the North Carolina Highway Patrol . “We have no way of verifying that the road remains under that water.”

The state Department of Transportation says a 16-mile stretch of Interstate 95 is closed. A 5-mile section of I-40 is also shut down.

Power was out for more than half a million homes and businesses in North Carolina, Duke Energy said. An additional 118,000 in South Carolina lost their lights, down from about 172,000 earlier in the day.

About the only good news was that a herd of wild horses that roams the Outer Banks had survived Florence just fine. The Corolla Wild Horse Fund, a group devoted to protecting and managing the herd of wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs, posted a message on its Facebook page saying the horses were “doing their normal thing — grazing, socializing, and wondering what us crazy humans are all worked up over.”

President Donald Trump issued a disaster declaration for North Carolina and that will make federal money available to individuals, busineses and communities for temporary housing and repairs.

While search and rescue missions continued along the coast, officials expect more roads and towns will be swamped as the storm moves west. “I have never see flash flooding like this in our state,” said Jim Trogdon, the secretary of the state Transportation Department. “Almost all of North Carolina will be subject to flooding.”

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued Saturday for communities along the Cape Fear and Little rivers, where officials said residents faced “imminent danger” from flood waters expected to arrive soon. Evacuations were also called for in parts of Ashe County in the Blue Ridge Mountains, were flooding and mudslides are feared.