Flooding has already racked up a $2.2 million damage bill so far this year in Mecklenburg County - and the peak of severe weather season is still a month away.
The STEM gender gap is getting smaller, but men still outnumber women three-to-one when it comes to getting a degree in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. One local woman is going big to shrink it further.
It is Severe Weather Preparedness Week in the Carolinas. Stay with the WCCB WeatherWise team as they help you better prepare for when severe weather strikes.
Only 1% of all vintners, or wine merchants, in the United States are Black. Even fewer are Black women. That's something this local trailblazer wants to change.