But this wasn't 2024 and the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene, which swamped much of Western North Carolina in late September. This was 1999, and Hurricane Floyd had just devastated much of ...

Hurricane Floyd made landfall near Wilmington as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 105 miles per hour. But inland flooding ...

In 1999, Hurricane Floyd roared through North Carolina as one of the state’s deadliest and most harmful hurricanes. It was the second major storm that month and the third in as many years to ...

“This was a 1000-year storm,” says Floyd, echoing meteorologists who have said the chances of a hurricane like Helene, with such rainfall, had less than a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.

The devastation from the tropical weather system was widespread and extensive. Whole communities had disappeared under the historic rains that fell on parts of North Carolina, with roads and vital ...