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ALERT DAY: Severe threat increases in central NC, bringing heavy rain across region
Monday is now a CBS 17 Storm Team Alert Day due to an increasing threat for strong to severe storms and the potential for ...
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Rising water floods homes
Photos by Randy Foster/ [email protected]: Houses were flooded on both sides of the Hiwassee River on Monday, off of ...
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Outdated flood maps left NC homeowners vulnerable to Helene's fury
In western North Carolina, the gaps in FEMA’s flood zones are even more pronounced. About 2,100 properties were in FEMA’s flood zone in Buncombe County compared to 19,500 identified as “at ...
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Report: Coastal flooding could threaten 1.4 million homes by midcentury
“We found 1.4 million homes are currently situated in that risk zone for the 100-year flood in 2050.” North Carolina ranks in the top 10 states for coastal flood exposure. In Hyde ...
North Carolina families coping with weather anxiety, long recovery months after Hurricane Helene
It has been six months since Hurricane Helene unleashed biblical flooding and tree-snapping winds across the Southeast, and areas such as hard-hit Black Mountain, N.C., continue to struggle.
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North Carolina flooding proves we need a new way of rating hurricanes
The post-landfall intensity scale may have helped communicate the flood threat during North Carolina's previous record deluge from a tropical storm or Hurricane, which occurred in 1999.