# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNoRRVhPbUJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33644100-chapelboronews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-21T19:43:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Twenty-five residents of Camelot Village in Chapel Hill are staying in nearby hotels being paid for by the local governments following displacement from flood damage sustained during Tropical Depression Chantal. But the group is facing a looming deadline for when the initial funding runs out. And not only are the flood victims struggling to figure out where to go after the hotel, but some report slow responses from their landlords and hurdles to being repaid for their unlivable rental units.

Before Chantal’s floods wrecked his apartment, Dale Weldele rented at Camelot Village for more than two years. He said he enjoyed the neighborhood and proximity to amenities like Chapel Hill’s Community Center Park and nearby businesses. But Weldele, who wears a prosthetic on his left leg, said he could have died in his home if neighbors had not helped him the night of July 6.

“My prosthetic came off in the current, I couldn’t stand against the water,” he said of his attempt to leave the building. “So, I’m on one leg with crutches trying to make it to the stairs through the whole thing…by the grace of God, I made it there. [But I] lost everything. There was four feet of water in the apartment, everything got destroyed.”

The community was the site of many water rescues and evacuations the night of the storm, which saw historic levels of rainfall from a tropical depression forecasted to only bring 1-3 inches of rain. The naturally-occurring affordable housing community is a rarity in Chapel Hill with its lower-income offerings — but that is in part because of its proximity to Bolin Creek and tendency to flood. In the wake of Chantal, many residents with impacted units are looking elsewhere and are finding limited options for their budgets amid a broad housing crunch within the greater Chapel Hill community.

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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