As part of Tropical Depression Chantal’s impact on North Carolina Sunday night, heavy rains fell on Orange County and the region — causing flash flooding and leading to both evacuations and road closures.
The Town of Chapel Hill shared alerts throughout Sunday following the National Weather Service’s flash flood warning issued in the afternoon as rain began to pick up. Shortly after 9 p.m., one of those alerts said local first responders were “in the process” of evacuating some units within the Camelot Village community in the 100 block of South Estes Drive due to flash flooding. The apartment and town home neighborhood is bordered by Bolin Creek and is a flood-prone area.
Those evacuations spread to other areas off Bolin Creek as the night went on. According to an update shared shortly before midnight, the town government reported dozens of people who first responders helped move to safety and more than 60 residents displaced by the floodwaters…