Month: October 2018

Football games and other Wake County high school athletic events originally scheduled for Friday will have to wait until another day. After Tropical Storm Michael left most Triangle-area schools closed on Friday, the school system tweeted Friday morning that after-school and athletic events would also be canceled. “Please check with your school about make-up information,” the tweet said. “School staff is currently addressing field conditions, safe access to facilities and scattered power failures today.” Wake…

Flooding closes Capital Boulevard in downtown Raleigh Raleigh police officers A.S. Freese and B.S. Smith set flares to funnel traffic off N. McDowell Street at West Lane St. as rain from the remnants of Hurricane Michael close Capital Boulevard in and out of downtown Raleigh, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018.

Linda Marquardt rode out Hurricane Michael with her husband at their home in Mexico Beach. When their house filled with surging ocean water, they fled upstairs. Now their home is full of mud and everywhere they look there’s utter devastation in their Florida Panhandle community: fishing boats tossed like toys, roofs lifted off of buildings and pine trees snapped like matchsticks in 155 mph winds. Row after row of beachfront homes were so obliterated by…

NORTH CAROLINA (WTVD) — Tropical Storm Michael is no longer in North Carolina but residents woke up Friday to feel the presence the powerful and deadly storm left behind. 6 dead, including 1 in North Carolina after Hurricane Michael slams Florida Panhandle, GeorgiaThe storm pushed in with high winds and dropped several inches rain across the area. While the rain tapered off, wind gusts caused the biggest problems, knocking down scores of trees, leading to…

Tropical Storm Michael has sped off toward the Atlantic Ocean, but there will be nothing quick about Florida’s recovery from the hurricane, where rows upon rows of homes have been smashed to pieces . The storm also has brought flash flooding to hurricane-weary parts of the Carolinas and Virginia . BY THE NUMBERS — Hurricane history: first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Florida’s Panhandle since record-keeping began in 1851. — Top winds: 155…

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) — As Alix Tracey looked out at the Little River she couldn’t help but wonder what kind of flooding it would bring. Tracey is the general manager of Spring Lake gym, the Collective. Tracey told ABC11 just a few weeks ago during Hurricane Florence that the water rose out of its banks and about six feet into her gym. She and others have spent the past three weeks gutting the facility…

Many roads were closed throughout the Triangle as Tropical Storm Michael brought fierce wind gusts and heavy rain to the region Thursday. In Raleigh, Capital Boulevard was closed in both directions between Wade Avenue and Lane Street due to flooding. Inbound traffic was being diverted west at Wade Avenue. Outbound was diverted west at Lane Street. MAJOR CLOSURE in downtown #Raleigh: McDowell Street at Lane Street is closed due to flooding. An official tells me…