Water is already rising in southwest Charlotte, and Hurricane Helene hasn’t even arrived yet.
Charlotte Fire was out Thursday to keep an eye on Steele Creek. By Thursday evening, its water was high and rough, and residents said they were prepared for it to get worse.
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The Arrowood Mobile Home Park is in a flood zone. By mid-afternoon, Steele Creek was edging up to a bridge separating the neighborhood from a way out.
“My house is one of the worst. It sucks,” David Giles told Channel 9′s Joe Bruno.
Giles isn’t sticking around to find out if he will be trapped.
“Getting out of here,” he said, laughing. “Getting out of here.”
With Helene on its way, neighbors like Giles are worried.
“Very concerned because it is not even the beginning,” he said. “I’m going to a family’s house so we are getting out of here.”
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In 2020, Channel 9 was in the same area as Charlotte Fire’s swift water team responded overnight because of rising floodwaters in the community.