Monday night storms prompted numerous flooded roads, storm damage and water rescues across central North Carolina.
Heavy rain Monday night prompted numerous flooded roads, storm damage and water rescues across central North Carolina. WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said the rain had stopped or was slowing down Tuesday morning, and road conditions should be improving. In Fuquay-Varina, heavy rain caused the street to buckle at Purfoy Road and Chalybeate Springs Road. Viewers sent WRAL raw video of a large hole in the road. The National Weather Service reported flash flooding along Crabtree Creek near Hodges Street, Wake Forest Road and Atlantic Avenue with roads closed and vehicles stranded. The gauge on Crabtree Creek at Old Wake Forest Road rose to 15 feet, where water spilled onto the greenway that runners, bikers and walkers use for exercise. Pieces of asphalt broke off the road and fell into the creek. On Interstate 40 at Lake Wheeler Road, a tractor-trailer slid down an embankment around 10 p.m. Monday after hydroplaning. Firefighters said the tractor-trailer hydroplaned, knocking a guard rail out, hitting a metal pole and then falling 40 to 50 feet off the embankment.
