Shelved plans from ’60s for Tennessee Valley Authority project in N.C. unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ...

Emergency officials warned in a 6 p.m. ET Facebook post that Lake Lure ... of Asheville. Flood warnings have been issued for several counties and towns in Western North Carolina, including Avery ...

When Duke Energy opened Cowans Ford Dam’s floodgates, Mountain Island Lake experienced nearly 8 feet of flooding despite the Charlotte area receiving only around 4 inches of rain.

Helene brought heavy rainfall, intense winds, damaging debris, and flooding ... Lake Lure. According to the USA TODAY power outage m a p, there were 635,887 total outages reported in North ...

Researchers installed sensors inside stormwater drains and cameras above them in three North Carolina communities. They found a startling amount of flooding.

Flooded homeowners who live above and below Lake Norman are convinced Duke ... Duke Energy said the flooding at Lookout Shoals and Mountain Island Lake and along the Catawba River was ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding ... in Western North Carolina. Mandatory evacuation orders were in effect south of Mountain Island Lake Saturday afternoon ...

MAJOR FLOODING TO WESTERN ... TOWNS LIKE ASHEVILLE AND LAKE LURE, WHERE RECORD FLOOD LEVELS OCCURRED THAT DAY. THIS WAS HUGE. I MEAN, THIS IS ALL ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.

open image in gallery Flooding and a badly-damaged road near Bat Cave around Lake Lure, North Carolina on Friday following impacts from storm Helene (Helen Pace) “We are physically OK,” she said.

CLAY COUNTY, N.C. — Communities across North Carolina that escaped the ... “They had already started drawing down the lake. Chatuge Lake is primarily for flood control downstream,” Rich ...