3 flood warnings continue in buncombe, transylvania and henderson counties are the french broad river, along with the pigeon and Swannanoa Rivers are high, rising or above flood stage. A flood watch continues for most of our area until 7am on new years eve. Were experiencing a nice break in the rain now, but more is coming. This evening and most of tonight will be dry, but showers will push back in for wednesday. The rain shouldnt be as heavy as monday nights downpours, but it could be enough to aggravate the already flooded rivers and saturated ground. Wednesday with highs in the 60s. Isolated tstorms will be possible 3 and wake up with fox carolina. Weve got traffic and weather every ten minutes from five to nine am. 3 ill have much more,coming up 3 in greenwood. A high water advisory is in effect at Lake Greenwood at the Buzzard Roost dam water was released from the lake into the saluda river today impacting areas in greenwood and newberry counties. Youll recall those areas were als
Asheville firefighters performed several water rescues some of those along mark roads one person trapped in their mobile home was brought out by boat and two people were rescued from their van after it was swept away by rushing water. 3 just to the southwest of buncombe countytransylvania county saw flooding, power outages, and evacuations. Green road was washed out overnight people in the area say this isnt anything new when it we see these heavy downpours 3 3 3 well this is, historically a real low lying area on the french broad river. River. It comes out maybe six, seven times a year if we have any severe rain, it comes out to some degree. Degree. You know, its just an ebb and flow of life on green rd. 3 check this outlivestock also a concern this morning this is caroland farms in landrum this pasture stis along the none of the cows or their calvese were swept away 3 the damage from last nights rain spanned as far south as anderson county. Where you can see a downed tree. This is cl
Way to work. Thats from 5 00 to 9 00 on thee morning news. 3 back to you. 3 flooding caused a lot of problems overnight in the mountains. The Swannanoa River flooded leaving parts of buncombe county under water. Water. Asheville firefighters performed several water rescues. They tell us one person trapped in their mobile home was brought out by boat and two people were rescued from their van after it was swept away by rushing water. 3 the damage also spanned as far south as anderson county. Here you can see a downed tree at club drive near blair street. And in Spartanburg County caroland farms was flooded in landrum 3 happening now 3 some reports coming to light that clemson Football Players may have been sent home from 3 lets get right to sports director Aaron Cheslock live in florida. Aaron what can you tell us. 3 clemson has not commented on reports that three players were sent home for conduct detrimental to the team. Clemson will address reports on wednesday morning during the 8 3
Spartanburg, greer, anderson, almost at three inches. Your evening planner, upper 50s to mid 50s by 11. Rain spreads farther to the east. Well talk about your bigger changes for the new year coming up in just a bit. Larry crews estimate it may cost more than 100,000 to rebuild the road damaged by heavy rains. Tammy kim, hows it looking out there . Kim tammy, you can see creeks behind me like this across the county are full to the brim with water and a little bit of white water there behind me. We actually saw a crew out surveying a nearby bridge to make sure it wasnt damage as the heavy rain continued throughout the day around here. On a tip we received about a flood in rural polk county. Difficult. Dot posted a sign road closed. We found these cones but couldnt immediately see why. Just up the road, a major mud and rock slide. Limbs covering the road as rain ter ran off the road and the mountain. Within 30 minutes, a dot crew showed up. County maintenance engineer with the Highway Div
Dale some places got over 1. 5 inches. When you combined yesterday and overnight, most sought over one inch. The event is starting to work its way out of our area, but another one is lining up for wednesday. We will have more rain in the forecast. Everybody is sick of it, but the good news is will improve toward the weekend. Upper 60s from greenville to greenwood, the 60s and asheville and high temperatures in the mountains in the upper 60s and we will hit 70 in the upstate. We will talk about the cold down in a few minutes. Mike thank you. We want to talk traffic. Richard edmund is in. Richard 85 from spartanburg to greenville, take your time. Lets start with 85. Road, highway 101 in the greenville area, of also extra driving time as you head in that direction because water is ponding on the roads. More so on the spartanburg side of interstate 85. Once you hit the puddle, you could get out of control. On landrum at highway 14 at interstate 26, flooding reported on highway 14. Traffic