CaptionThis year's season holds special meaning for North Carolina. It was 10 years ago that Hurricane Floyd roared ashore. The storm killed 56 people in the US, 35 In North Carolina. Floyd moved inland in the middle of the night, Near Cape Fear, dumping 20 inches of rain in some parts of the state and caused about $6 billion in damage.
Since Floyd was just 10 years ago, many of the same people forecasting and watching the weather today, were watching the skies a decade ago, when the storm changed so many lives.
On Wednesday, the National Weather Service will unveil a marker showing how high flood waters were following the storm.
Dr. Steve Lyons, from the Weather Channel remembers the hurricane as a massive flooding event for the state and the Triangle.
"So here was this evacuation for the winds on the coast and we end up with a cat 2 with big impact flooding inland. It was just devastating. Many people lost their lives, lost their house and all the property in them," he recalls.
Dr. Lyons reminds people still living inland this hurricane season, "The hurricane foot print has 5 toes and 3 of those toes are inland toes. One is wind, another one is heavy rainfall, flooding and of course there is always a tornado threat. So those inland events are very important."
Dr. Ron Humble, with National Weather Service, was also on duty when Floyd came ashore in September of 1999. "By the time that Floyd came," he remembers, "we saw the speed was slow, we knew it was gonna be a heavy rainier on the ground that was basically concrete. So we know we were looking at a historic event."
For North Carolina residents, Dr. Humble says, "It was a life changing event that people here will be comparing for the rest of their lives."
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