Month: September 2018

The calm skies after Florence weren’t going to last long. Most of the Carolinas can expect severe weather today, as “lines and clusters of thunderstorms this afternoon across the foothills and Piedmont of the Carolinas and northeast Georgia,” according to the National Weather Service. Some of those storms could organize into severe storm systems, the weather service said. For central North Carolina east to the coast — including areas still inundated by Florence’s floodwaters —…

The Storm Prediction Center has put the entire area in a marginal risk for severe weather. So what does that mean? First the Risk:Where is this coming from? There’s a disturbance working out of the Ozarks and into our area by Friday morning. Stay on top of breaking news stories with the ABC11 News App As a piece of energy works alongside it, out of Mississippi and into our area, it will be running into…

With the floodwaters receding, the state’s attention has turned to helping people with immediate needs and beginning to develop long-term strategies that would help North Carolina prepare for the next big storm, Gov. Roy Cooper said Thursday. At the latest of what have been almost daily press conferences since Hurricane Florence hit two weeks ago, Cooper said most rivers are expected to return to their banks by early next week and that the death toll…

Most of Wake County’s 160,000 students will have a normal day of classes on Friday — instead of going home early — to help make up for time lost to Hurricane Florence. Friday was originally an early release day for most of Wake’s 187 schools, meaning students would be dismissed 2.5 hours early so that teachers can spend the afternoon getting training. But district leaders announced last week that Sept. 28 will be a regular…

Over the past week, rivers in North Carolina have broken previous flood records, many of which were set by Hurricane Matthew just two years earlier. Hurricane Florence dropped 2 to 3 feet of rain, causing major flooding along the Cape Fear, Lumberton, and Neuse rivers. The Cape Fear River alone carried more than 62,000 cubic feet of water per second — enough to overfill an Olympic swimming pool every two seconds — which destroyed property…

By Claudia Rupcich, WRAL reporter Chapel Hill, N.C. — The UNC Board of Trustees held its first regularly-scheduled meeting Thursday since the toppling of Silent Sam. More than 20 people have been arrested in several protests since the confederate statue came down in August. The Silent Sam pedestal at the university’s McCorkle Place is still empty more than a month after the statue came down, and university leaders have until mid-November to figure out the…

A horizontal line of seeds tells the story: The floodwaters brought by Hurricane Florence rose here to about chest height. Left behind on the door to a church outbuilding was the flotsam — including the seeds — that once floated on the floodwater’s surface. The seed line is the kind of telltale sign Daniel McCay and Mary Winsor are looking for. As hydrologic technicians with the U.S. Geological Survey, it’s their job to collect information…

North Carolina plays at No. 16 Miami on Thursday night with a chance to win its second consecutive game. The game will be televised at 8 p..m. on ESPN. UNC (1-2) beat Pittsburgh at home 38-35 last week and are tied at No. 1 in the ACC Coastal Division. Miami (3-1) beat FIU 31-17 at home last week. Here are 10 things to know about Miami: 1. 2018 recap The Hurricanes lost their first game…