Record-breaking flooding from Tropical Depression Chantal in North Carolina’s central counties led to multiple water rescues, road closures and damage to property Sunday and Monday.
Even as flash-flooding in many places Sunday subsided, many rivers and creeks were still rising Monday morning.
Among the most severely impacted areas from Chantal were Alamance County, where a section of Interstates 40 and 85 have been closed near the Haw River; Orange County, where areas around Booker Creek and Morgan Creek caused severe flooding in Chapel Hill and the Eno River flooded in Hillsborough; Chatham County where multiple roads were washed out or closed by swollen creeks and rivers in Bynum, Siler City and other areas; and Moore County where severe flooding on the Little River and other streams affected portions of Carthage and Southern Pines.
Chantal came ashore from the Atlantic Ocean as a Tropical Storm in South Carolina, before weakening to a tropical depression and moving northward through North Carolina Sunday and early Monday.
The center of the Chantal continued into Virginia. Unfortunately, the slower winds of the storm did little to reduce the rainfall from the system and its slower forward speed resulted in lingering rainfall over waterlogged areas.
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated. Frank Taylor contributed to this report.
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