AYDEN, N.C. (WNCT) — Heavy rain Monday night unrelated to Hurricane Helene caused some flooding issues in Ayden.
At the Skylight Inn, the entire parking lot was under about a foot of standing water Monday. The drainage issues continue Tuesday and workers had to react quickly to pump all the water out of the lot in order to get the restaurant open.
“All of this area close up, in front of the building, all of this was completely under water off to the side of the building,” Andrew Cannon said. “And we were pumping water, shooting it across the ditch that flows to a different area. And then we had water flowing over there and a little drainage we have over there just trying to clear the water up, get it off the building.”…