Before or after a heavy rain? :-) It is a very long creek and covers a great distance in Raleigh. It is responsible for nearly all of the major flooding that Raleigh ever incurs. It has on of NC's largest shopping malls, many shopping centers, several major car lots, etc. on it's banks in some of it's most vulnerable areas. You will now see numerous places where businesses have been torn down after giving up on the flooding and new businesses have been built only after hauling in gravel and dirt and building a foundation 12-20 feet above the surrounding area. It looks like buildings built on minature flat topped pyramids. Funny looking, but it works. See the map at http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=mozclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=glenwood%20ave.%2C%20raleigh%2C%20nc&sa=N&tab=wl Rootsweb will undoubtably break the link above into two lines, so you will have to reconstruct it. Crabtree Creek is in the very center of this map and you will be able to click and drag the map following it through most of Raleigh. As it crosses I-440 and Glenwood Avenue to the northwest of this location it becomes too small to show on the map, yet no less prone to flooding and damages. This is where the large shopping mall Crabtree Valley Mall, which shows on the map, has been flooded numerous times over the past 30 years. Tim Kemp Joanne Gaudio wrote: >Can anyone give me an idea where Crabtree Creek is (or was) located? >

Tim, That is a great map link. Thanks. I was able to pull in an areial view of one of my homes i lived in as a boy in the early 40's at Fred Fletcher Park. John Clark --- Tim Kemp <tkemp@mindspring.com> wrote:

2/20/07 If anyone had any questions about the advisability of building in flood plains a study of the Crabtree Valley Mall and other areas of Crabtree Creek should put a halt to building in all flood plains. Future generations of genealogists would have a hard time with properties that have been washed away. John Clark --- Tim Kemp <tkemp@mindspring.com> wrote: > Before or after a heavy rain? :-) > > It is a very long creek and covers a great distance > in Raleigh. It is > responsible for nearly all of the major flooding > that Raleigh ever > incurs. It has on of NC's largest shopping malls, > many shopping > centers, several major car lots, etc. on it's banks > in some of it's most > vulnerable areas. You will now see numerous places > where businesses > have been torn down after giving up on the flooding > and new businesses > have been built only after hauling in gravel and > dirt and building a > foundation 12-20 feet above the surrounding area. > It looks like > buildings built on minature flat topped pyramids. > Funny looking, but it > works. > > See the map at > http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=mozclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=glenwood%20ave.%2C%20raleigh%2C%20nc&sa=N&tab=wl > > Rootsweb will undoubtably break the link above into > two lines, so you > will have to reconstruct it. Crabtree Creek is in > the very center of > this map and you will be able to click and drag the > map following it > through most of Raleigh. As it crosses I-440 and > Glenwood Avenue to the > northwest of this location it becomes too small to > show on the map, yet > no less prone to flooding and damages. This is > where the large shopping > mall Crabtree Valley Mall, which shows on the map, > has been flooded > numerous times over the past 30 years. > > Tim Kemp > > Joanne Gaudio wrote: > > >Can anyone give me an idea where Crabtree Creek is > (or was) located? > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to NCWAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >

For information on Crabtree Creek's latest flood (last summer) see these videos. This is not an uncommon experience for those around Crabtree Creek. http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/158988/ http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/1055723/ JOHN AND JUNE CLARK wrote: >2/20/07 >If anyone had any questions about the advisability of >building in flood plains a study of the Crabtree >Valley Mall and other areas of Crabtree Creek should >put a halt to building in all flood plains. Future >generations of genealogists would have a hard time >with properties that have been washed away. > >John Clark >