A ‘miraculous’ recovery: Reflecting on Chantal repairs one year later
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Early in the morning on July 6, 2025, the National Weather Service in Raleigh updated the day’s forecast for Orange County: Tropical Depression Chantal would likely bring 1.5 to 2 inches of rain. A “reasonable worst-case scenario” for the day’s rainfall topped out at 3.1 to 3.7 inches. What followed was unthinkable: over the next 24 hours, parts of Orange County received up to 10 inches of rain, washing out roads, carrying away cars, and stranding people in inundated homes. For Rick, a homeowner in the Weatherhill Pointe neighborhood in Carrboro, how quickly the water rose was “downright scary.”
