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====Hurricane Floyd==== {{Main|Hurricane Floyd}} [[Image:Floyd Tar River Flooding.jpg|thumb|[[Tar River]] flooding homes after [[Hurricane Floyd]]]] In September 1999, [[Hurricane Floyd]] made landfall in eastern North Carolina, dropping nearly {{convert|17|in|mm}} of rain during the hours of its passage. Many residents were not aware of the flooding until the water came into their homes. Most localized flooding happened overnight, and the [[Tar River]] suffered the worst flooding, exceeding 500-year flood levels along its lower stretches.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bales|first=Jerad D. |url=http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri004093/summary.html |title=USGS: 1999 North Carolina Flooding: Summary |publisher=Pubs.usgs.gov |access-date=December 9, 2010}}</ref> An additional 20+ inches of rain had fallen prior in the month from the two passes of [[Hurricane Dennis (1999)|Hurricane Dennis]]. Damages in [[Pitt County]], alone were estimated at $1.6 billion (1999 USD, $1.87 billion 2006 USD).<ref>{{cite web |author=Tom Ross & Neal Lott |url=http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/extremes/1999/september/extremes0999.html |title=NCDC: Climate-Watch, September 1999 |publisher=Lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov |access-date=December 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011024130238/http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/extremes/1999/september/extremes0999.html |archive-date=October 24, 2001 }}</ref> Some residents in Greenville had to swim six feet underwater to reach the front doors of their homes and apartments. Due to the heavy flooding in downtown Greenville, the [[East Carolina Pirates]] were forced to relocate their football game against #9 [[University of Miami|Miami]] to [[NC State Wolfpack|N.C. State]]'s [[Carter–Finley Stadium]] in [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], where they beat the Hurricanes, 27–23.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/news/1999/09/29/ecu_flood/ |publisher=CNN |title=Pirates' big win helps city cope with aftermath of Floyd |date=September 29, 1999 |access-date=May 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607030058/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/news/1999/09/29/ecu_flood/ |archive-date=June 7, 2009 }}</ref>
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