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4 <br /> FLASH FLOODING <br /> Floods and flash floods claimed three lives and injured another <br /> two people in North Carolina during 1992 . Two of the deaths <br /> resulted from people trying to drive their cars across flooded <br /> highways in Cabarrus and Montgomery Counties on April 21st. That <br /> same day, a small child was swept away while playing near a <br /> flooded stream in Guilford County. <br /> There were 33 instances of flash flooding in the state last year. <br /> Perhaps the most dramatic event occurred on the evening of <br /> September 10th in the southwest part of the state around <br /> Cherokee. Nearly eight inches of rain fell from thunderstorms <br /> over the headwaters of the Oconaluftee River in the Great Smoky <br /> Mountains. This sent a wall of water up to twenty-feet high down <br /> Raven Fork toward Cherokee and Bryson City. Thanks to quick <br /> action by emergency officials to evacuate residents and campers, <br /> nobody was killed or injured in this event, though several homes <br /> were destroyed and property damage ranged in the millions of <br /> dollars. <br />