🚨 URGENT: DAM FAILURE IMMINENT IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NC
This would be CATASTROPHIC.
All residents below the Lake Lure Dam are being ordered to evacuate IMMEDIATELY, as massive amounts of rain from Hurricane Helene is expected to cause the dam to break.
GET OUT NOW! A dam… pic.twitter.com/8uPWcXviqn
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 27, 2024
This is a BIG dam too. pic.twitter.com/qWxrUz4rka
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 27, 2024
North Carolina floods: Failure of Lake Lure Dam is imminent, officials say
Several counties in western North Carolina are experiencing flooding caused by Helene’s heavy rain, hours after it made landfall in Florida as a Category 4.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/27/north-carolina-flooding-lake-lure-dam/75409116007/
h/t last one