Parts of North Carolina saw something Monday that has not been seen in hundreds, or perhaps 1,000 years – 18 inches of rain in half a day.
NWS
That’s “once in every 1,000 years!” the National Weather Service said on social media Monday afternoon, as the tropical system moved across the Carolinas.
The system was not organized enough to be called a tropical storm, but it was still historic. The heaviest rain and flash flooding was in Carolina Beach, Boiling Springs and Southport, in southeast North Carolina, the NWS reported. Winds gusted as high as