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Good morning, readers.

When Chapel Hill flooded Sunday night, Andrea Richards was watching F1 at Silverspot Cinema while Jana Joksimovic was out delivering DoorDash. Within hours, both found themselves trapped at University Place—one of the areas in town hit hardest by the historic flooding. 

Richards and her family spent five hours in the theater as water rushed in through both the lobby and the mall entrance. Around 100 people spread across second-floor theaters—among them, unaccompanied minors building forts from seat cushions and a Silverspot employee working his first day on the job. Every so often, a theater would empty out with new people who didn’t yet know they were stranded, because no theater-wide announcement had been made.

Meanwhile, a stone’s throw away, Joksimovic’s Corolla was nearly swallowed by a puddle on Estes Drive. Her boyfriend guided her home through back roads over the phone—then, a few hours later, she went back into the storm to continue DoorDashing.

Read below about how two women navigated the historic flooding and have a good Wednesday.

—Lena

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