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- Life in a Chapel Hill Floodplain
- SAU Lives to Fight Another Day
- Ask INDY: Dining Out Edition
- ICYMI: Vying for Priciest Bloody Mary
- Raleigh Parks Get Food Vendors
Good morning, readers.
When Tropical Storm Chantal flooded their Chapel Hill home on July 6, Lou Horton and Paul Greganti huddled in their attic with three cats, listening to debris crash against their house in the darkness. Two feet of water filled their home. Six dumpsters from Eastgate Shopping Center floated past. Nearly all their belongings were destroyed.
They’d seen this coming. In 2018, they put their house on the market, worried about coming changes to the Blue Hill District upstream. It sat there for two years without an offer. Then the development arrived—The Hartley at Blue Hill with 414 apartments across 12 buildings, Bell Chapel Hill with 273 units, the Elliott Road Extension cutting through their street.
Parsing the impacts of a historic storm from those of upstream development isn’t straightforward. What’s certain is that storms are getting worse and the people who can least afford to relocate are trapped in harm’s way.
“That 1,000-year storm? It’s not gonna be another 1,000 years before it shows up again,” says Danielle Spurlock, a UNC professor specializing in land use and environmental planning.
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WAKE COUNTY
Order in the Court
Saint Augustine’s University will be allowed to continue operations after winning a court injunction, pausing a July decision to revoke its accreditation, Erin Gretzinger writes for the INDY.
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Dining Out? Send Us Your Questions
Looking for restaurants with a unique setting, or wondering where to find a particular cuisine? Award-winning food writer Lena Geller is on deck for Ask INDY: Dining Out Edition.
ICYMI
Hail Mary
A group traveled to The Blind Pelican, a Holly Springs restaurant known for its Bloody Marys, with ambitions of breaking multiple Guinness World records—and settling a year-old beef, INDY’s Lena Geller reports.
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DURHAM COUNTY: NCCU, which has long struggled with student housing, says it has increased the percentage of students living on-campus, ABC11 reports.
ORANGE COUNTY: Tropical Storm Chantal displaced 150 people in Central NC, Carolina Public Press reports.
STATE: If planned cuts to Medicaid take effect, patients in NC will receive $1.1 billion less in services, NC Newsline reports.
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