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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00:00We're also following the impacts of what was Tropical Storm Chantal, which made landfall

00:04south of Myrtle Beach early Sunday morning. Anna, you were here to cover that in North Carolina.

00:08Two people lost their lives in connection with that storm.

00:11Yeah, the Orange County Sheriff's Office says the body of a woman who went missing

00:14during Chantal's heavy rain Monday night has been found. And according to CNN,

00:20an 83-year-old woman also lost her life in floodwaters in Chatham County, North Carolina.

00:25For the latest on Chantal and the Texas flooding, we're joined now by AccuWeather

00:29Chief Meteorologist John Porter. And I want to start with Tropical Storm Chantal.

00:33What was Tropical Storm Chantal? Brought some flooding to North Carolina.

00:37It did. Another reminder, as we had been highlighting here at AccuWeather for days in advance,

00:42the risks associated with tropical storms moving inland, losing wind intensity,

00:47but still providing an area of five inches or more in the reds here, all the way up from

00:53Wilmington toward Fayetteville, north toward Durham, and also toward Chapel Hill,

00:58up into the southern tier of Virginia. That was also hard hit. So an area here of substantial rain

01:04that led to significant flooding, especially in the Chapel Hill area.

01:08And of course, any time that we have flooding, this leads to damage and economic loss. And we

01:13now have an estimate of just how much this tropical storm caused.

01:17Four to six billion dollars of damage. So yet another billion dollar disaster here

01:22as it relates to the flooding damage, especially because of the fact that there are many homes and

01:27businesses within areas of expensive real estate near Chapel Hill in particular, and other communities

01:36that really drives that damage or that cost up quite a lot. So a significant impact there.

01:42Obviously, also beyond the damage, looking at the cost of business interruptions and infrastructure damage,

01:48there were some roads and bridges that were washed away as well that will have to be rebuilt.

01:53So a significant impact across North Carolina.

01:57Yeah, and sometimes it can be easy to discount a tropical storm for these kind of impacts,

02:01but it's just another reminder that it's important to stay weather aware.

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