Residents of this North Carolina town describe how an unnamed 'once-in-a-century' storm snuck up on them ::7, 2024:: Carolina Beach, North Carolina:: Duke Hagestrom, The Fudgeboat owner:: "I want to say it kind of snuck up on us.

It never became a tropical depression, but Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight brought rain totals like North Carolina hasn't seen in hundreds of years.

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.