HAW RIVER, N.C. (WGHP) — A neighborhood in the town of Haw River has been ordered to evacuate as Tropical Storm Debby rolls through North Carolina, according to Alamance County Emergency Management officials.
On Thursday afternoon, officials ordered residents in homes on Lang Street to leave their homes as water levels rise along the Haw River.
The Flood Inundation Mapping and Alert Network has warned that the Haw River in Alamance County is projected to crest, or reach its highest level before dropping, at 32.1 feet at 2 a.m. Friday morning.
FOX8 is working to obtain more information.
Other hazards in the Triad
According to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, crews are out looking for flooded areas and cleaning out trains to prevent or fix any flooding issues. Trees with downed power lines and fallen trees have been closed. Duke Energy must make electrical repairs before roads can reopen.
Around 10 a.m. Thursday, North Buffalo Creek in Greensboro topped its banks around Latham Road and Cridland Road. Closures are in place.
The light signal at Coliseum Boulevard at West Florida Street in Greensboro is flashing due to a power outage. Drivers should treat all traffic signal outages as four-way stops.
Generators are being deployed to the following intersections in Greensboro to deal with traffic light outages: Benjamin Parkway and Green Valley Road, Benjamin Parkway and Elam Avenue, Holden Road and Wendover Avenue and Holden Road and Spring Garden Street.
As of 12:38 p.m. on Thursday, a tree is down completely blocking the westbound lanes of Wendover Avenue in Greensboro just past the Holden Road intersection. GPD is on the scene directing traffic and turning drivers around.
Both directions of NC-150 near Bunch Road in Greensboro are closed due to downed power lines.
Both directions of NC-68, and the area of Thorndike Road between NC-68 and Pegg Road in Greensboro were deemed impassable due to flooding.
The first round of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro was postponed after the course was flooded.
A single-vehicle, weather-related crash happened on Freeman Mill Road in Greensboro.
A viewer let us know Revolution Mill Park in Greensboro is nearly underwater.
As of 11:30 a.m., all southbound lanes of Highway 52 are closed at Akron Drive in Winston-Salem due to a car crash.
A viewer reached out to FOX8 letting us know a neighbor’s tree fell on their shed in the 140 block of Belle Arbor Drive in Winston-Salem.
While sitting on the front porch, a homeowner on Old Liberty Road in Franklinville had a tree fall on his house right above him.
Burlington City Park in Burlington has flooded.
The Surry-Yadkin Electric Membership Corporation has reported downed lines and fallen trees near Graves Road and Blue Hollow Road in Mount Airy. Never approach a downed line or flooded roadways.
Around 10:20 a.m. Thursday, a tree fell on a gas line near Westinghouse Road and Tobaccoville Road in Rural Hall, causing a natural gas leak. Around 12:30 p.m., Piedmont Natural Gas crews turned off gas to start making repairs.
A large tree uprooted and fell on power lines at Holder Inman Road in Randleman. The road is closed.
Thursday morning around 6 a.m., the Millers Creek Fire Department responded to a car crash involving a downed tree in Wilkes County.
At about noon Thursday, a creek on Whittemore Road in Graham is flooded.
A car hydroplaned and hit North Oak Ridge Baptist Church in Booneville.
