The floodwaters may have receded, but they left another challenge for future car-buyers: how to avoid buying a compromised vehicle. “Vehicles damaged by floods have often ended up in the marketplace being sold to unsuspecting consumers,” warns a tip sheet on spotting flood-damaged cars from the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.

At 8:33 p.m. on Friday, the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC issued a flood advisory in effect until 11:30 p.m. for Mitchell and Yancey counties.

Red Cross was helping residents find accommodations while cleanup crews worked to remove the water from the flooded units.

A slow-developing, broad area of low pressure located over the far northern portion of the Gulf is threatening to bring heavy rain and flooding.

Today, 17 million are under flood alerts across the Gulf Coast and in the Mid-Atlantic, and 19 million are under heat alerts across the Mid-Atlantic, southern Florida and Mississippi Valley.

The relentless rain caused flooding across the country’s most populous province. Many of those killed have been children, officials said.