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Chimney Rock, North Carolina restoration efforts post-Helene 2/1/2025Chimney Rock, North Carolina restoration efforts post-Helene 2/1/2025
WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris during a visit to North Carolina on Saturday met with local officials to receive an update on Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, spoke with several ...
North Carolina's most devastating storm was named Hurricane Floyd. A Tropical Storm, Dennis, softened North Carolina by coming ashore 10 days earlier than Floyd, saturating the soil and filling the rivers. When Floyd made landfall near Wilmington in 1999, its seemingly endless rains had nowhere to go but into the streets, highways and houses.
The North Carolina State Climate Office at North Carolina State University reported that its Mount Mitchell weather station recorded 24.41 in (620 mm) of rainfall. The office referred to the total as "off the charts", comparing it to 16.5 in (420 mm) of rainfall being a once-in-1,000-year flood for the area.
One thousand active duty military members are being deployed to aid in Hurricane Helene recovery nearly one week after the Category 4 storm ripped an 800-mile path of destruction across the Southeast.
Roanoke Rapids is located in northern Halifax County bordered to the north by Northampton County, with the county line following the Roanoke River.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.0 square miles (25.9 km 2), of which 10.0 square miles (25.8 km 2) are land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.36%, are water.