The storm that swept ashore in the Carolinas on Sept. 16 may not have been a named tropical storm, but in places like Carolina Beach, it caused even more flooding than Hurricane Florence did six years ago.
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00:00Oh my God, this car just flung off into the bridge.
00:03This is crazy, we've never seen anything like this.
00:06The entire area right in here, just underwater.
00:10I've never seen it like this, I mean, for Florence it wasn't this bad at all.
00:13It's terrible out here, as you can see, I mean, I'm up to my knees in water.
00:17You can see it first hand here, just how bad the flooding here is in town.
00:21I've never seen it like this before, this is the most flooding we've ever had.
00:24I've lived here 15 years, my entire life, you just can't believe how flooded it is.
00:28Probably the most rain I've ever experienced in a rainstorm happened just moments ago here in South Florida.
00:33You can see the aftermath here, many cars in this area are flooded out.
00:37Pretty much the craziest event we've ever seen, especially for an unnamed storm.
00:43Regardless of its actual classification, this has produced tropical storm impacts
00:49across the coastal Carolinas and a life-threatening flooding situation.
00:53An unnamed storm, certainly, but one that is not going to be forgotten.