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Not sure if your news has covered it or not, but my city was flooded last night. Last year around this same time it was the hurricane, now this. I awoke early this morning (3ish) to hear pounding rain, it worried me and kept me awake. I checked my phone by the bed and the radar showed a huge rainstorm moving slowly over us and a warning of flash floods. When the sun came up nothing was really different from any other heavy rainstorm, until we started seeing friend's photos on Facebook.
Only blocks away houses, a store, apartments, and churches were flooded. A road was completely washed away leaving an 8+ foot deep ravine in the road. The river had reached flood stage for the first time since the 1940s. It was all over town.
My son and I went riding our bikes to check out things. People taking all their furniture out by the curb for city pick up. Squeegies pushing mud and water from homes and the local store, etc...
No injuries or deaths, just a lot of property destroyed.
If you were stuck in traffic on Interstate 95 today, this is why.
Here is a local news video, 18 minutes of the area. It starts in a trailer park, the river you see in the pictures is actually the Chockoyotte Creek, a creek that is barely a source of running water any other day, we drive over it all over town without realizing it's there, until today. The video will show Interstate 95 and it's back up. The middle school that was supposed to start monday, but is now delayed, and Kapstone paper mill which has 4 foot of water inside the plant and employees stranded. If you watch the whole thing you will see the washed out road (big hole) which is just 4 blocks from my house.
http://www.wral.com/news/video/11469020/
I have thanked God for keeping us safe and dry, the cleanup in the rest of the city should be interesting to watch, hopefully I can find a way to help.
Only blocks away houses, a store, apartments, and churches were flooded. A road was completely washed away leaving an 8+ foot deep ravine in the road. The river had reached flood stage for the first time since the 1940s. It was all over town.
My son and I went riding our bikes to check out things. People taking all their furniture out by the curb for city pick up. Squeegies pushing mud and water from homes and the local store, etc...
No injuries or deaths, just a lot of property destroyed.
If you were stuck in traffic on Interstate 95 today, this is why.
Here is a local news video, 18 minutes of the area. It starts in a trailer park, the river you see in the pictures is actually the Chockoyotte Creek, a creek that is barely a source of running water any other day, we drive over it all over town without realizing it's there, until today. The video will show Interstate 95 and it's back up. The middle school that was supposed to start monday, but is now delayed, and Kapstone paper mill which has 4 foot of water inside the plant and employees stranded. If you watch the whole thing you will see the washed out road (big hole) which is just 4 blocks from my house.
http://www.wral.com/news/video/11469020/
I have thanked God for keeping us safe and dry, the cleanup in the rest of the city should be interesting to watch, hopefully I can find a way to help.
