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Hi. Our friends just came back from Raleigh last night and just missed the huge flood going on down there. They went down to look around bc they are considering relocation, but are a bit concerned about the weather. How often would you say you guys get "weather warnings", such as hurricanes or floods? Thanks!!
I get a lot of flood alerts on my cell phone, but rarely do we really see any serious floods. I've lived in Raleigh area for almost 20 years and never had any serious flood or had my house flooded. That's one of the benefits of NC, we don't get terrible floods as bad as floods Florida nor do we get blizzards as bad as New York. Hence why many of people from these areas move here. We have the perfect weather balance.
Hurricanes hit Raleigh dead-on on average about every 40 years or so (at which rate we're "due" in 20 years). For hurricanes this far inland, the big danger is not flooding anyway, but TREES crashing through the roof.
Floods like this week happen pretty infrequently, too, but the most important thing about them is--AVOID LOW AREAS. I live in a slightly higher elevation part of town and we got nothing.
Crabtree Mall was initially a FLOOD PLAIN for Crabtree creek, before developers--doing what developers do--ignored nature and built what was at the time (1972) the biggest shopping mall between Washington DC and Atlanta. It flooded almost every time it rained, back then, but the crekk and roads were widened to alleviate that, and I can't remember the last time we got a flash flood like we did this weekend.
If flooding is your friends' primary worry, they just need to make sure they don't buy anywhere at the bottom of a hill.
wow, ok! just curious bc I saw a pic of cars buried under water in the crabtree mall parking lot!
Well, Crabtree Valley Mall is literally in a valley - and a flood plain, with Crabtree Creek rightnextto the parking lot - and it floods all the time. No surprise there.
But anyplace that gets 5 inches of rain in two hours is going to have a problem, whether it's flooding or a mudslide or what have you. I've only been here 6 years but I've never seen rain like that sustained over 2 hours in my life - anywhere.
The storms seemed to pop up out of nowhere, and even when it became obvious they were training over us, there were no warnings - it was 7 p.m. on a Saturday night so a lot of people were out and caught unawares.
It floods in low lying areas as mentioned above. Crabtree tends to get the worst of it when it does happen but it's usually nothing like this weekend. As long as they don't live in a flood plain it will be a non-issue.
It floods in low lying areas as mentioned above. Crabtree tends to get the worst of it when it does happen but it's usually nothing like this weekend. As long as they don't live in a flood plain it will be a non-issue.
Actually, in the 3"--6" downpour we had, we had homes flooded that were outside flood plains.
I want to be elevated above the flood plain, not just outside the mapping.
My friend's car got flooded while she was eating at Kankis. Has Crabtree Mall done anything more to alleviate the flooding issues? It seems to flood easily and fairly often. Does the Mall have any liability/responsibility?
My friend's car got flooded while she was eating at Kankis. Has Crabtree Mall done anything more to alleviate the flooding issues? It seems to flood easily and fairly often. Does the Mall have any liability/responsibility?
How can they be held liable for an "act of God"? They can't.
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