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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 ...
Shelved plans from ’60s for Tennessee Valley Authority project in N.C. unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In Boone, N.C., a parking lot was flooded as Tropical Storm Helene barreled over North Carolina on Friday ... including flooding, landslides and widespread power outages. Some of the worst ...
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 ...
Chimney Rock and Lake Lure in western North Carolina appear to have been devastated by flooding after Hurricane Helene swept through the area. Census data from 2022 indicate 220 people live in ...
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.