North Carolina, Chantal and flash flood
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Recent flash flooding in Texas, New Mexico and North Carolina is highlighting the extreme danger of these natural disasters and the need to be prepared.
Scattered storms are becoming severe Wednesday. Heavy rain threats may cause life-threatening flash flooding in the eastern Triad on Wednesday.
Then, colliding with another soggy system sliding north off the Pacific, the storm wobbled and its clouds tipped, waterboarding south central Texas with an extraordinary 20 inches of rain. In the predawn blackness,
Flooding in North Carolina prompted water rescues in Chapel Hill and other parts of the state, which saw the Haw River crest at 32.5 feet early Monday.
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Thursday afteroon rain and storms may cause more life-threatening flash flooding as we recover from Wednesday night floods.
Another round of heavy, slow-moving storms may lead to more flash flooding across the Carolinas Thursday afternoon & evening.
The NWS Raleigh NC issued a flood watch at 10:57 p.m. on Wednesday valid from 11 p.m. until Friday 5 a.m. in effect until Friday at 5 a.m. The watch is for Halifax, Franklin, Nash, Edgecombe, Wake, Johnston,
Heavy rains fell on Orange County and the region on Sunday, causing flash flooding and leading to both evacuations and road closures.