Just a couple more inches and the murky creek water would've creped into Gary Brusseau's home.

"I figured it's not gonna happen to me, right? Well...it was that close from getting up to my doorstep," he said as he pointed at the mud line that was just an inch from the bottom of his door frame.

Wednesday's heavy rains in Chapel Hill caused flooding in the parking lots, walkways and backyards of Brusseau's complex, Camelot Village.

"The sleepy creek, Boling Creek, is now alive and kicking," Brusseau said.

Some residents said they knew they were in a floodplain, but didn't expect flooding from this storm.

"If this happens with the tail-end remnants of Faye, what would happen if a real one came through?" said resident Gordon Strauss. "This is the result of a couple hours rain. It was very heavy."

This area of Chapel Hill has flooded before.

"I believe it was July 2000...was the last flood we had," said Don Willhoit, President of Camelot Village Homeowners Association. "There are 116 units here in Camelot and it flooded about half of them."

He said residents are going to push for town administrators to investigate why the creek creped up so close to home Wednesday.

"The water was running from the creek onto the Camelot property, indicating that the stream downstream from Camelot is not accepting the water fast enough...so we're going to be looking into that and see what the town can do to improve the channelization there," Willhoit said.