From Axios…
A tropical rainstorm that is taking aim at the Mid-Atlantic has flooded the Carolinas with “historic” rains, inundating homes, roads and vehicles and prompting water rescues.
The big picture: Flash flood and tropical storm warnings were in effect for portions of North and South Carolina Monday into Tuesday due to the unnamed system that the National Hurricane Center referred to as Potential Tropical Cyclone 8, as it dumped more than a foot of rain in some places.
Threat level: The storm was “making landfall near the North/South Carolina border” on Monday and bringing “gusty winds, heavy rain, and embedded strong thunderstorms up the Carolinas into portions of the Mid-Atlantic,” the National Weather Service said in an advisory.
- “Historic rain has fallen across Carolina Beach, Southport, and Boiling Springs Lakes today,” the NWS’ office in Wilmington, N.C., said in a Facebook post Monday.
- “Multiple volunteer gauges have recorded over a foot of rain since midnight and considerable flash flooding continues to affect roads, homes, and businesses in these areas.”
- The office said in another update on X that “life-threatening flash flooding is ongoing.”
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