Over 48 hours, our crews tracked a powerful storm along the Carolina coast. Ali Reid reports from Carolina Beach, where flooding left homes underwater, cars stalled and businesses damaged.
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00:00I've never seen anything like this in about 20 years.
00:03It's pretty much the craziest event we've ever seen,
00:07especially for an unnamed storm.
00:09An unnamed storm, but one that will not be forgotten along the Carolina coast.
00:14Heavy rain and wind pummeled areas like Carolina Beach, North Carolina,
00:18leaving historic flooding in its path.
00:20I have no clue if I have power.
00:22You know, I have no clue if my animals are okay.
00:26I have no clue.
00:28I just, I'm stuck.
00:30Homes underwater, cars stalled out all across the beach town,
00:34flooding so high it was chest deep at times.
00:38As the thick of the storm moved out and sun came in,
00:41it left people assessing damage, including local business owners.
00:45We got in and there was about an inch or two of water inside.
00:49Some potentially facing thousands of dollars worth of damage,
00:53and high tide kept flooded roadways around even longer until Tuesday morning.
00:58Waking up this morning and coming home, a lot has dried.
01:02But to get home, I can't get home.
01:05Families willing to risk driving through flood waters to get home.
01:09Ultimately, we started our chase in the Outer Banks following the storm's path south,
01:14stopping in North Topsail Beach and Surf City, North Carolina along the way.
01:18There, we found minor flooding, but it's places like Wilmington and Carolina Beach
01:24that will need weeks, if not months, to rebuild.
01:27For AccuWeather, I'm Allie Reed.