County by county information

Wake County received three to five inches since yesterday afternoon. The highest wind gust was recorded in Goldsboro at 52 miles per hour.

Durham County Emergency officials report a lot of flooding in the northern and eastern parts of the county. Part of North Driver Street is blocked as officials work to remove a tree from a downed power line.

Orange County Tropical Storm Hanna has caused minimal problems for the Chapel Hill area since heavy rain began passing through the area just after midnight, local officials said.

The American Red Cross opened a shelter at Smith Middle School, 9201 Seawell School Road in Chapel Hill, but as of 10:30 a.m. no one had taken advantage of it, Orange County public information officer David Hunt said. The shelter will stay open at least until noon.

There have been only a few minor power outages, and all traffic signals are operating.

Around 4:15 a.m. low-lying areas, mostly parking lots in the South Estes Drive area near University Mall, began to flood. These included the Brookwood, Camelot and Ridgefield complexes. At this time no buildings have been flooded.

Hunt, who said he lost power at his home, had also heard reports of rising water in the Cornwallis Hills neighborhood in Hillsborough.

In Chapel Hill, police activated a Code Red system to advise residents in the specific areas of the rising water, and police and fire personnel went door-to-door to suggest residents move their cars and consider relocating. Few if any left the complexes. Approximately 4,348 calls were made with a 53 percent contact rate, town officials said in a news release.

Umstead Drive in Chapel Hill is flooded and barricaded off this morning.

Six to 8 inches of water is across Weaver Dairy Road at Kingsmill Apartments and a tree on a house has been reported at Summerfield crossing, town officials said . There were no injuries.

Person County A bridge was reportedly washed out and traffic was stopped on N.C. 157, Hunt said.

Chatham County Emergency officials say most of their damage is in the western part of the county towards the Triad, where numerous trees are down. They do not report flooding.

Power Outages Between 9,000 and 12,000 homes in the state have lost power, Mark Van Sciver of the state's Emergency Operations Center said early this morning. Most of them are in the southeast, in Brunswick, New Hanover and Bladen counties, although about 1,600 homes in Wake County have had outages.

As of 8 a.m., about 55,000 Progress Energy customers were without power. Most of those customers are in coastal areas and in the coastal plain east of Interstate 95, according to a release from Progress. Crews are also working to restore service in the Triangle and surrounding areas, as well as the Sandhills. About 1,000 customers in South Carolina were also without power.

To report an outage to Progress, call 1-800-419-6356 or visit www.progress-energy.com/storm.

As of 8 a.m., Wake Electric reported 418 storm related outages, concentrated in northern Johnston County.