Drought Over in Charlotte
August 30th, 2008 Categories: Charlotte News and Politics
It’s not official yet, but 11″ of rain fell in parts of Charlotte earlier in the week as the remnants of Hurricane Fay spent a couple of days in the Carolinas, causing major flooding in neighboring Cabarrus County, as well as some local flooding here in Charlotte as well. The lakes are full, but will the water restrictions come off? My guess is they will be eased, but not removed.
It is hard to estimate how much this has affected our business, but out of state clients have been being asking about it for over a year.
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No doubt you’ve noticed the Lake Wylie map on left, it will be changing Sunday to this new South Charlotte map. We are working on improving the inter-connectivity of our site all the time. Stay tuned below as I make Google maps go to work for you!
Lets check some distances out– Say from Charlotte to Waxhaw. To do this, go to the Larger map, viewing the left size click on measuremtn tool, makeyour first make with a left click, drag to the 2bnd and click agai, and you get something like this (this map is Not live, I’ll explain later)
or, from the Sanctuary to Soutpark–21 miles
Once you add the Distance Tool, or other User map, you can longer embed the map as I did on the top map. You have to work it in Google. So let the games begin.
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It is a strong buyers market here in the greater Charlotte area, in the Lake Wylie area as well, for new homes and re-sales. Custom homes start in the from the 600’s, more from the 700’s, and there are a number of great values in the 900K-to mid 1.5M range. Thinking about buying a home in Lake Wylie? Lake Norman? Or Charlotte? You can quickly compare area prices with the links below, or just give me, Terry, a call at 704-351-1519. I am a Charlotte broker specializing in relocations and 2nd homes–and will represent only you.
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Even with all of this rain, I think Lake Norman is still below full pond.
The rain was much needed, and definetly raised the levels of all surrounding lakes.