From USA Today:
Parts of southeastern North Carolina were experiencing “life-threatening flash flooding” Monday as a potential tropical system brought rain totals usually not seen in hundreds of years, weather officials said.
The towns of Carolina Beach, Boiling Springs Lakes and Southport received more than a foot of rain in the first 12 hours of Monday, the type of deluge that on average happens once every 200 years, said the National Weather Service’s office in Wilmington, North Carolina. The 18-plus inches in half a day that dropped on Carolina Beach occurs “once every 1000 years!” the office said.