Tropical Storm Chantal causes up to $6 billion in damage
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North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein said July 8 that state officials were working to confirm the total number of fatalities.
The impacts of Tropical Storm Chantal continue to linger in Hillsborough. On Friday, town leaders talked about the flooding of River Pump Station, which caused most of the town's raw sewage to spill into the Eno River.
Impacts of Chantal are being felt across the region, with rain falling across eastern Florida and up to Delaware.
Tropical storm warnings were extended up to Surf City, North Carolina, ahead of Tropical Storm Chantal's landfall in South Carolina early Sunday.
Two sites run by Schoolhouse of Wonder will be closed indefinitely as damage assessments continue in Eno River State Park and West Point on the Eno after flooding in Orange and Durham counties.
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Mutual aid groups are looking for volunteers and donations in the wake of historic flooding caused by Tropical Storm Chantal.
Chantal weakened into a post-tropical cyclone after forming off the coast of Florida, bringing significant flooding to several Eastern U.S. states, according to the National Hurricane Center. Chantal became a tropical depression on Friday, bringing heavy rain to Central Florida.
A tropical storm watch stretches along the coast from Edisto Beach, S.C., to the South Santee River. The hurricane center said those elsewhere along the southeast coast of the United States should also keep an eye on Chantal. Chantal is expected to track slowly to the north and then northwest and move onshore in South Carolina by Sunday morning.
Tropical Storm Chantal caused significant flooding and road closures across central North Carolina, particularly in Chatham and Orange Counties. Local states of emergency were declared in several counties, and roughly 120 roads remained closed as of Monday afternoon.
Tropical Storm Chantal formed on Saturday as it slowly moved in the Atlantic toward the Carolinas, according to the National Weather Service.