CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Hours of heavy downpours caused local creeks to rise so high that they flooded roadways Wednesday.

Water rose so high along Stallings Road in Harrisburg that it spilled over a bridge, closing the road.

Nearby, Eyewitness News reporter Jason Stoogenke went out on a boat to get an up-close look at flooding. He tagged along with Paul Devalle and his son, Blake, in Cabarrus County.

The Devalles live along Rocky River Road and were scoping out their fence, which was partially under water, to make sure debris wasn't building up.

They said they don't usually have a lake in their back yard.

"Where the tree line is -- that's where the river is -- right there," Paul Devalle said. "All this is normally pasture land all out here."

Down the road, David Murray watched Back Creek rise and flow over Pharr Mill Road near his yard. He stayed in and spent the day doing woodworking, but he plans to have a lot more lumber on his hands when the water goes down.

"Logs build up – dams -- ends up making everything marshy and swampy and (it) takes a little while to clean all of that mess out of there," he said.

Messes left by the Devalles’ horses floated away Wednesday afternoon.

Paul Devalle said that fortunately, it doesn’t cause a problem.

"No, not at all. It just floats off. It's natural. It's biodegradable," he said.

Flood waters also crept up to homes in the Pebble Creek neighborhood in Indian Trail. Pools of water sit on the golf course.

The damage stacked up across the Charlotte area as rain continued to fall throughout the day. A tree fell on two cars on East Boulevard in Dilworth but no one was injured.

The 70-year-old red maple fell across Springdale Avenue at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. The tree did have some early signs of root rot, but the top of the tree was covered in what appeared to be healthy leaves.

An arborist said neighbors need to be on the lookout for falling trees over the next several days. He said trees are at risk now because of the drought two years ago. He said that when the ground dried out then, their roots began to decay and now the soggy ground is allowing them to fall. He said even healthy trees can fall because they are heavier on top.

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Severe Weather Team 9 meteorologist Keith Monday concurred. He said that with so much rainfall over the past 24 hours, the ground is completely saturated. This factor, along with strong wind gusts over 30 mph, will bring down more trees.

The wind will not likely calm until Thursday, he said, so the threat for downed trees and power lines will remain.

Monday said the showers will continue through the evening. He said the western side of the Charlotte area has a higher potential for flooding because the rain has moved eastward very slowly.

Monday said the continued rain will also make flood waters slow to recede.

Most local counties remain under flash flood watches.

Emergency officials in Rock Hill are keeping a close eye on a nearby river that could cause trouble early Thursday.

The National Weather Service expects the Broad River at the York and Cherokee County line to rise another 7 feet and crest above flood stage between midnight and 1 a.m.

Few people live along the river, but what worries emergency officials is late-night drivers who could suddenly hit a flooded bridge over a creek and get swept away.

York County Emergency Management Director Cotton Howell said it doesn't matter if it's not raining anymore. All that rainwater is still racing downstream from Cleveland County, N.C., into York and Cherokee counties.

"It takes a while for that water to run off from the mountains and through all the tributaries and get here. We may have blue skies for a day, and then our rivers rise to flood stage long after the rain has stopped," he said.

That flood warning for the Broad River doesn't expire until Thursday night.

Howell said local rivers don't flood often, but when they do, it's almost always because of a tropical storm system like Ida that dumps a lot of rain.

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