Month: February 2020

Thursday’s severe weather led to a Friday of cleanup for many residents across central North Carolina. Areas all over the WRAL viewing area were busy cutting up trees, making repairs to homes and accessing the damage from Thursday’s strong storms which moved through much of our state. Some areas were experiencing flooding from the large amount of rain that came down so quickly as crews worked to restore power. WRAL’s reporters were all over the…

BUNN, N.C. (WTVD) — Crews rolled out to assess the damage that Thursday’s powerful storms left in the Town of Bunn. The National Weather Service is set to visit Bunn on Saturday to determine if the damage there was caused by a tornado after receiving multiple reports of people seeing funnel clouds. Winds reached up to 70 to 90 mph The garage doors of the Bunn Rural Fire Department was not the only area that…

The rain is gone, but North Carolina isn’t out of the woods yet as many remain without power and facing storm damage to clean up. Winds that gusted up to 50 mph most of Friday morning put trees at risk to fall with the ground still saturated from Thursday’s heavy rains. Most of the area got more than an inch of precipitation. Several school districts closed or delayed school because of unsafe traveling conditions for…

The rain is gone, but North Carolina isn’t out of the woods yet as many remain without power and facing storm damage to clean up. Winds that gusted up to 50 mph most of Friday morning put trees at risk to fall with the ground still saturated from Thursday’s heavy rains. Most of the area got more than an inch of precipitation. Several school districts closed or delayed school because of unsafe traveling conditions for…

By Brian Shrader, WRAL traffic reporter WRAL’s Sky 5 flew over Raleigh on Friday morning around 11:20 a.m. to examine the first aerial footage of storm damage. Sky 5 visited the following locations (in no specific order): Inman Park Drive & Lead Mine Road had a tree down on a power line. Balsam Drive had a tree damaged home. Lake Royale: Sledge Road & Cheyene Drive Seven Paths Road in Louisburg had damaged horse barns….

CANBERRA, Australia — Heavy rains lashed parts of the wildfire and drought-stricken Australian east coast on Friday, bringing some flooding in Sydney and relief to firefighters still dealing with dozens of blazes in New South Wales. New South Wales is the state hardest hit by wildfires that have killed at least 33 and destroyed more than 3,000 homes in an unprecedented fire season that began late in a record-dry 2019. New South Wales Rural Fire…

By JAY REEVES, Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A powerful winter storm raked the Southeast on Thursday with high winds, rain and floods that killed at least four people and injured several more across a dozen states. Rescue crews repeatedly pulled people from cars that got stuck in high water, but couldn’t reach a person whose vehicle disappeared into a rain-swollen creek. The storm front destroyed mobile homes in Mississippi and Alabama, caused mudslides in…