{"id":880498,"date":"2026-10-13T05:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880498\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:28:25","slug":"drone-footage-reveals-widespread-flooding-in-burke-county-after-hurricane-isaias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880498\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone footage reveals widespread flooding in Burke County after Hurricane Isaias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORGANTON, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; WBTV drone footage captured widespread flooding in Burke County on Sunday afternoon after Hurricane Isaias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The video, recorded Sunday, Oct. 11, shows several roads and public access points in Morganton underwater after the storm swept through Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8211;&gt; Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/10\/12\/multiple-tornadoes-confirmed-north-carolina-south-carolina-amid-weekend-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/10\/12\/multiple-tornadoes-confirmed-north-carolina-south-carolina-amid-weekend-storms\/\">Multiple tornadoes confirmed in North Carolina, South Carolina amid weekend storms<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As of Sunday night, Antioch Road, Spainhour Road at Bost Road, Bethel Park, the Greenlee Ford access point, and the John\u2019s River Boat Ramp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/10\/12\/burke-county-roads-closed-due-flooding-after-hurricane-isaias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/10\/12\/burke-county-roads-closed-due-flooding-after-hurricane-isaias\/\">were closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Residents said they were shocked by how high the water had risen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI remember it being flooded, but not up this far,\u201d said Cara Holley, who has family in the area. \u201cI\u2019m grateful. That\u2019s the main thing: nobody was hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"WBTV drone footage captured widespread flooding in Burke County on Sunday afternoon after...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/YIVPUTSXZJD6RBCBKRCBLUXZ54.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>WBTV drone footage captured widespread flooding in Burke County on Sunday afternoon after Hurricane Isaias.(WBTV)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORGANTON, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; WBTV drone footage captured widespread flooding in Burke County on Sunday afternoon after Hurricane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[38011,192,314843,79,8915,1977],"class_list":["post-880498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-drone","tag-environment","tag-morganton","tag-science","tag-sunday","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}