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  • Record Flooding Damages Eno River State Park
  • Urban Ministries Weathers Funding Losses
  • Hopscotch Announces Lineup
  • Ways to Help Residents Affected by Chantal
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Good morning, readers.

Around midnight on Sunday, the Eno River reached about 25.63 feet, exceeding what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration categorizes as “major flooding” conditions. The previous record was 23.6 feet during Hurricane Fran in 1996.

Water flow in the Eno peaked Monday morning at about 500 times more than normal.

That’s the kind of force that ripped through Eno River State Park and devastated nearby neighborhoods in Northern Durham following Tropical Storm Chantal. The road to recovery will likely take months as folks from the Eno River Association (ERA) along with state and local governments continue to assess the total damage and collaborate on a rehabilitation plan.

Ryan Fehrman, ERA executive director, says these types of weather events are no longer an anomaly, and communities should be prepared to deal with them more frequently.

“We can have a storm like Chantal that we didn’t see as a significant threat and still have historic flooding,” Fehrman says. “It’s a real wake up call. We need to be deliberate about making sure our public policy considers these possibilities as we move forward, because we’re not going to see fewer, smaller storms. We’re going to see more and bigger storms.”

Read more below and have a good weekend.

—Justin

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Urban Ministries Faces Funding Cuts

Durham’s largest public homeless shelter faces rising costs and declining funding. But Urban Ministries is continuing services, with aims to expand, Eva Flowe writes for the INDY.

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Hopscotch Announces Lineup

The festival will take place in downtown Raleigh, September 4-6, with a mix of local acts like Superchunk and Fust and far-flung acts like Yeule and Nilüfer Yanya, INDY’s Sarah Edwards writes.

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Ways to Help After Chantal

In the days and months to come, the types of support affected communities need will evolve, says Devin Ceartas of Triangle Mutual Aid, INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl writes.

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WEATHER: There’s more rain in the forecast today and tomorrow, but WRAL reports the risk of flooding—while not zero—is lower.

STATE: Arguments have concluded in the federal trial over whether GOP voting maps intentionally diluted Black North Carolinians’ votes, NC Newsline reports.

STATE: Under the newly passed federal budget bill, more than 500,000 North Carolinians may lose health care, tens of thousands could lose clean energy jobs, and people around the state could see higher utility bills, North Carolina Health News reports.

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