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Roads underwater for miles as flooding slams North Carolina beach town
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9/16/2024
AccuWeather's Ali Reid reported live from Carolina Beach on Sept. 16 as people headed out from their homes to survey extreme flooding throughout the area and even catch some fish in the floodwaters.
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Right now, we want to check in with Allie Reed in Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
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And Allie, you've been talking to locals all afternoon, and I've heard this term so many
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times.
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I've never seen this before.
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Now, a lot of people have only been here 15 to 20 years.
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It's not like we're talking 60 or 70 years, but that's still a big statement to make when
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describing this tropical rainstorm.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Many people this afternoon into this evening really just trying to assess the damage in
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their homes.
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A lot of loss that we're going to see from businesses and homeowners.
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I want to show you a few things here.
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You'll notice that throughout the area, big trucks like this are really making their way
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through town to really assess the damage.
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We've seen a number of live rescues, a fire truck, and a number of police crews just made
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their way through here within the last few minutes.
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I also want to explain one thing for you.
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Okay, let's see.
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Who are these guys?
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New Hanover Company Fire.
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We got different fire companies coming into Carolina Beach to help out this afternoon.
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Hi, guys.
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All right, they're hanging in.
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A few things I want to mention if we can.
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Andy, flip back the other way.
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Hold on.
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I'm getting tangled up.
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There you go.
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Yeah, come back this way.
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A few things.
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I don't know if we can see the guys anymore.
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At one point, there were two teens that were fishing in this parking lot over here, and
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I'm going to show you with my hands.
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They mentioned that a couple of their friends caught a red drumfish.
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For those that aren't aware what a red drumfish looks like, that's about this big.
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So people that are fishing in this water here are catching massive, massive fish that are
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swimming through the streets here.
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But the biggest thing right now is that many people are still dealing with the flooding.
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That's going to be a problem not only for today, but over the coming weeks and months
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as well.
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Many people waking up, again, deciding what they're really going to do here.
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A lot of them trying to get their cars out of water, as many people are stalled.
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And a lot of people in this community already helping each other out because they know what
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can happen in situations like this.
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We've seen people that are going up really just assisting as many people as they can
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because they don't have vehicles to get to right now.
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But a lot of people, again, just walking through the town, really getting a feel for what it
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looks like right now.
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And I just got to show you.
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I mean, this is just wild to me, guys.
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It really is.
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Look at this.
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This is North Lake Park Boulevard, completely underwater.
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I mean, I truly, again, as we've been talking about it throughout the day, Bernie, Jeff,
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an unnamed storm, certainly, but one that is not going to be forgotten.
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I can tell you that much.
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One that I won't forget.
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And I know a lot of people in this town, very devastated.
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And Allie, I have to ask you, has that been the biggest takeaway here, just the massive
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amount of flooding that you've seen in Carolina Beach?
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It really has.
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The flooding is the biggest deal here.
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A lot of people, yeah, they said, yeah, we got some rain.
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We got some wind.
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But the biggest thing right now is the flooding.
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And it's everywhere.
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It is widespread in Carolina Beach.
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Again, it's not just the street here.
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We're showing just a portion, a sliver of what this area really, truly looks like.
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Again, this goes miles, guys, miles of people underwater.
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All right, Allie Reed reporting from a flooded out Carolina Beach.
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And Allie, we'll stay in touch with you as we go through the rest of this evening.
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