India, July 7 -- As Tropical Depression Chantal's hit North Carolina, Orange County and the surrounding area saw torrential rainfall on Sunday night, which resulted in flash floods and forced road closures and evacuations.

Tropical StormChantal made landfall nearLitchfield Beach, South Carolina on Sunday.It passed across central North Carolina, where it dumped up to nine inches of rain in a 24-hour period in some places.

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service (NWS) released a flash flood warning in the afternoon amid the heavy rains. With this, Town of Chapel Hill started toissue alerts throughout Sunday.

One of those notifications stated that local first responders were "in the process" of rescuing several units within the Camelot Vi...