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Tropical Storm Chantal causes two deaths and more than $4 billion in damage
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Chantal may have just been a tropical storm, but it caused serious impacts inland in North Carolina, marking yet another billion-dollar weather disaster so far in 2025.
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We're also following the impacts of what was Tropical Storm Chantal, which made landfall
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south of Myrtle Beach early Sunday morning. Anna, you were here to cover that in North Carolina.
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Two people lost their lives in connection with that storm.
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Yeah, the Orange County Sheriff's Office says the body of a woman who went missing
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during Chantal's heavy rain Monday night has been found. And according to CNN,
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an 83-year-old woman also lost her life in floodwaters in Chatham County, North Carolina.
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For the latest on Chantal and the Texas flooding, we're joined now by AccuWeather
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Chief Meteorologist John Porter. And I want to start with Tropical Storm Chantal.
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What was Tropical Storm Chantal? Brought some flooding to North Carolina.
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It did. Another reminder, as we had been highlighting here at AccuWeather for days in advance,
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the risks associated with tropical storms moving inland, losing wind intensity,
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but still providing an area of five inches or more in the reds here, all the way up from
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Wilmington toward Fayetteville, north toward Durham, and also toward Chapel Hill,
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up into the southern tier of Virginia. That was also hard hit. So an area here of substantial rain
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that led to significant flooding, especially in the Chapel Hill area.
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And of course, any time that we have flooding, this leads to damage and economic loss. And we
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now have an estimate of just how much this tropical storm caused.
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Four to six billion dollars of damage. So yet another billion dollar disaster here
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as it relates to the flooding damage, especially because of the fact that there are many homes and
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businesses within areas of expensive real estate near Chapel Hill in particular, and other communities
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that really drives that damage or that cost up quite a lot. So a significant impact there.
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Obviously, also beyond the damage, looking at the cost of business interruptions and infrastructure damage,
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there were some roads and bridges that were washed away as well that will have to be rebuilt.
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So a significant impact across North Carolina.
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Yeah, and sometimes it can be easy to discount a tropical storm for these kind of impacts,
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but it's just another reminder that it's important to stay weather aware.
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