Parts of southeastern North Carolina were still underwater Tuesday after a storm that wasn't quite organized enough to get a name dropped historic amounts of rain on an area that has suffered floods of a lifetime at least four other times in the past 25 years.

It never became a tropical depression, but Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight brought rain totals like North Carolina hasn't seen in hundreds of years.

A tropical disturbance was causing life-threatening flash flooding and tropical storm-level conditions across parts of coastal North Carolina on Monday, weather officials said.