THOMASVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — Heavy rains in the Triad bring back memories and put some on edge who experienced In Thomasville, a family’s entire driveway was washed out, stranding them in their home for days.Philip Young said the sound of heavy rain kept him up this week.“I woke up a few times hearing it pour, and I had a dream from one year ago that the exact same thing happened again,” Young said.He thought back to July 2025 when rain overflowed a pond on his property, and it washed away th...
THOMASVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — Heavy rains in the Triad bring back memories and put some on edge who experienced
In Thomasville, a family’s entire driveway was washed out, stranding them in their home for days.
Philip Young said the sound of heavy rain kept him up this week.
“I woke up a few times hearing it pour, and I had a dream from one year ago that the exact same thing happened again,” Young said.
He thought back to July 2025 when rain overflowed a pond on his property, and it washed away the driveway access to his home.
“In my dream, I was standing on the ledge looking over just like last time, so it’s in my brain and definitely scared my brain a little bit,” Young said.
Since those rains, he has had the driveway built back up and had a pipe put in underneath the driveway to drain water. What was once the pond is now a small stream filtering into a nearby creek. The new setup gives Young and his family peace of mind when the rain comes now.
“This pond was built back in the ’70s, so it’d been here a long time. We would build it back different than it was before, and I know it would be safer, but still it would be in the back of your mind. You would wonder, when we have an event like we had last night into this morning, would we have that kind of issue,” Young said.
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Since the floods, he has created what he calls a weather center where he watches the forecast and collects precipitation at his house. He also has cameras put up where he can get views across the property and driveway from his devices. Young recorded four inches of rain at his house in the most recent rainstorm and says weather will always be top of mind.
“I pay constant attention to the weather, … look at where the water is flowing, monitor how it moves and then just make accommodations,” Young said.
Young said his advice to people after this round of rain is to take a look at their homes and yards, and if some flooding or the water is running a certain way that looks problematic, now is the time to get it checked out and for any structural issues that could cause future problems.