Coastal regions of North Carolina were still underwater on Tuesday after another historic flood, marking the fifth time in 25 years that residents have faced this kind of weather.
Torrential rains poured into the southeastern part of the state earlier this week, leaving parts of Brunswick County submerged and prompting widespread road closures, including the heavily traveled U.S. Highway 17.
The storm, which unleashed more than 18 inches of rain in just 12 hours on Monday in Carolina Beach, came after the National Hurricane Center issued advisories about the storm on Sunday. The NHC warned of the storm’s “life-threatening” flash flooding impact in a social media post on Monday as meteorologists continued to track the storm, which had a high chance of forming into Tropical Storm Helene, the eighth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.
Although it reached tropical storm strength, the storm never attained the necessary structure to be classified …