I've repeatedly written about this problem over the past year, during which time this stretch of Southall Road has flooded 4 times (including on 3/7/14, the date of the included photo). On 3/7, a southbound car aquaplaned, departed the road to the right (see the tracks on the right side of the photo), and flipped upside down (slightly visible in the top right of the photo, near the cars parked on the side of the road), impacting a power pole and blacking out the surrounding neighborhoods. This photo was taken shortly after the wreck, but before emergency responders arrived.

To be clear, this is a fairly recent problem--prior to about April of last year, this stretch of Southall had not flooded since I moved to the Amberfield neighborhood in 2005.

Thus far, all that's been done by the city of Raleigh or NCDOT (which is involved, as Southall is a state-maintained road) is to put up an orange "High Water Ahead" sign (though not usually until long after the flooding has started; in this case, not until after the accident happened).

I did see an NCDOT maintenance crew at this site about 6-8 weeks ago. I stopped and asked if they were there to clean out the culvert that was blocked and causing the flooding. The crew leader's response was that they were there to "take care of it." Apparently they did not, as the road has flooded twice since then.