North Carolina farmers and others are without power and many have been displaced from their homes after getting pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal Sunday and Monday. North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler says he and his staff are evaluating the situation.
“The good news is it does not look like the great big rain was a very wide stretch, but up here, close to us and Alamance, Caswell, Orange, Durham, Chatham down through there, right along the Haw River. Rainfall reports, I know that we had field flooding.”
Parts of interstate 40 in Central North Carolina under water on Monday, prompting memories of a devastating storm from 1996.
“You don’t have to go 10 miles over to Alamance County and right through Alamance and up through there, I know it was bad, and I have heard, I didn’t see it, but I heard they closed Interstate 40 this morning, and the only other time I saw that happen was during Fran.”
Rainfall amounts of up to 10 inches have been reported in portions of the interior Mid-Atlantic, and the possibility of three to six inches more was expected to raise flash flooding concerns, particularly to the northwest of Chantal’s path through Monday night.