High surf and coastal flood advisories were issued for the North Carolina coast on Sunday. Video from Chicamacomico Banks Fire & Rescue shows waves crashing into homes in Rodanthe on Sunday.

The rain from the system had moved into southeast Virginia on Tuesday. Along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the storm closed vulnerable coastal highway North Carolina 12 on Ocracoke Island and threatened several homes in Rodanthe, where erosion and rising sea levels have destroyed more than a half-dozen beachfront homes this decade.

Video and images posted to social media showed severe flooding along the coast, with cars under water and multiple rescues underway. Thousands of residents left without power thanks to the storm, known by forecasters as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight.

The Carolinas braced for a storm that forecasters warned could bring heavy rain — as much as 6 to 8 inches in some spots. But one narrow band got a “firehose” that dumped as much as 20 inches in a so-called 1,

Heavy winds and rains from a storm in the Atlantic that wasn't quite organized enough to get a name hit a stretch of the southeastern U.S. coast Monday.

Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack, who witnessed a bridge collapse underneath an SUV and found himself stuck in a North Carolina town cut off by flooding, breaks down his experience of the Sept. 16 tropical

The Carolinas have been inundated with record breaking rainfall over the past two days as tropical storm-like system dumps 18 inches of rain on Carolina City in a matter of hours.

People were told to stay home and schools remain closed Tuesday in parts of coastal N​orth Carolina hard hit by a storm that dumped at least 20 inches of rain on some spots. Eme