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"More than 3 inches of rain fell at Raleigh-Durham International Airport between early Friday afternoon and daybreak on Saturday. In that time, Crabtree Creek rose nearly 9 feet at Wake Forest Road in Raleigh. The creek was still in its banks at 9 a.m. Saturday, but workers were prepared to close Crabtree Valley Avenue, which runs along the creek behind Crabtree Valley Mall, if the creek floods as expected. The mall parking lots closest to the creek were barricaded and closed Saturday morning."
While the worst of the weather may be over, the steady rain that will continue throughout the weekend means that the worst of the ground conditions are probably still to come.
Thankful the storm seems to have done a lot of nothing around my neighborhood. Less flooding than earlier rainstorms this summer.
Power still out since 5pm yesterday. I assume they're just prioritizing all their workers to the critical areas.
That's awful. We lost power here in Northern Durham near 85 yesterday around 6:30 came back on about 90 minutes later. Some wind but we've had much heavier rains around here this Summer. Very lucky.
Are you posting from your cell phone, or did you find a place with power for your laptop?
Laptop off phone hotspot.
Power went out 2 days before the storm. Same grid area is out now. Duke's responses re: Southeast Raleigh outages have been a head scratcher. Answer is supposedly that they refuse to send trucks to turn Southeast Raleigh back on because they feel the area is unsafe to work at the moment but everyone's reporting the roads appear clear, there's no rain and hardly any wind. Maybe there's a flood in an isolated area around a piece of equipment.
If they simply don't have the manpower because they're servicing seriously flooded/damaged areas Southeast of us... GOOD. The roads are fine around here (minus the danger of the traffic lights out) and many stores are open, we're blessed.
if you haven't seen - they can't send the bucket trucks when winds are > 30 mph. We've got gusts right now that could easily be 30 mph. I've seen videos of linemen on the ground using hand-held poles to mess around with the power lines/transformers.
With an active storm, they weren't going to do much if anything in the dark.
There's not but so much they can do down east for power as long as there's flooding.
it is indeed raining hard in the upper end of the Crabtree basin. the radar only shows it as yellow at my house. I'd put it at the bottom end of the red, at least.
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