North Carolina under rare high risk for flooding rain

An onslaught of heavy rain threatens to trigger extensive life-threatening flooding in the southern Appalachians of North Carolina and Virginia through Thursday. The flood danger has prompted the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Weather Prediction Center (WPC) to issue a high risk for flooding for the first time since Feb. 11. “The same slow-moving storm that caused catastrophic flooding in portions of Michigan early this week will continue to…