DISASTER Lake Lure NC (and other SE dams) -- Dam Failure Imminent (Update, Lake Lure is stable, Nolichucky is NOT)

Kayak

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Again, for those of you thinking "small dam in the boonies" -- here is just some of the reservoir behind it:

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And here's the overhead map of the reservoir, and the distance key showing. This is a LOT of water. It sounds like they were trying to get rid of water yesterday because it was already full, before the brunt of Helene came through last night.

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Kayak

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Millwright said:
Scanner feed is worth a listen.

Them folks is busy.
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So far only one gunfight. Now there's copperheads in the debris pile they need to get through. Yes, entertaining, to say the least.

The dam is still holding, but here's the thing -- all the rain that's landed/landing on those mountains will come down the mountains and drain TO this reservoir. This isn't like Florida, where it rains and then the water drains back into the ocean. In the mountains, you get rising reservoirs for days after a major rain.
 
Texican

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Rutherford County, North Carolina, 120-foot-tall Lake Lure Dam.

The 120 foot-tall Lake Lure Dam creates a lake of 1.15 sq miles or 800 acres. That is a lot of water that would flood a lot of the land below the dam if the dam fails.

Prayers for these folks.

TD
 
Macgyver

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wvstuck said:
The Waterville dam in Tennessee has also just suffered a catastrophic failure.

Hurricane Helene: Tennessee dam suffers ‘catastrophic failure’ - National | Globalnews.ca

Emergency officials issued an immediate evacuation order for Newport, Tenn., on Friday as a dam suffered catastrophic failure as Hurricane Helene moved inland.
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Vegas321 said:
I think the dam just failed. Can someone check. I'm on the road.
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Its the waterville dam that failed
 
packyderms_wife

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Tennessee's Waterville Dam Suffers 'Catastrophic Failure': What We Know​

Published Sep 27, 2024 at 3:55 PM EDT

Residents of Newport, Tennessee, have been ordered to evacuate the town "immediately" as heavy rainfall and flash flooding stemming from Hurricane Helene makes its way north.

Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis wrote his Facebook page just before 3 p.m. EST Friday that the Waterville Dam "HAS SUFFERED A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE" and ordered the "EVACUATION ALL OF DOWNTOWN NEWPORT IMMEDIATELY."

Mathis posted about half an hour later that he was declaring a state of emergency for the county, which is located roughly 60 miles east of Knoxville.

It is unclear what caused damage to the dam, although it comes as officials in eastern Tennessee have warned of devastating flooding in the area. Mathis wrote in a post earlier in the day Friday that "[a]ll county and city emergency resources are currently fully engaged in water rescue and evacuation operations."

"We are still several hours from the expected high-water mark," read the message, which Mathis posted at 11:32 a.m. EST. "If water is rising near you, PLEASE DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE WATER REACHES YOU. Make plans to escape BEFORE you need assistance."

Tennessee's Waterville Dam Suffers 'Catastrophic Failure'


Vehicles drive along a flooded street as Hurricane Helene churns offshore on September 26, 2024, in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Residents of a town in eastern Tennessee have been urged to evacuate immediately after the... More Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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Tennessee's Waterville Dam suffers "catastrophic failure": What we know

Residents in Cocke County have been urged to evacuate the area "immediately."
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medic38572

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wvstuck said:
The Waterville dam in Tennessee has also just suffered a catastrophic failure.

Hurricane Helene: Tennessee dam suffers ‘catastrophic failure’ - National | Globalnews.ca

Emergency officials issued an immediate evacuation order for Newport, Tenn., on Friday as a dam suffered catastrophic failure as Hurricane Helene moved inland.
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Hurricane Helene: Tennessee dam suffers ‘catastrophic failure’​




By Uday Rana Global News



Posted September 27, 2024 4:02 pm EST

2 min read



A dam in Tennessee has suffered “catastrophic failure” from the adverse impacts of Hurricane Helene, officials said Friday.


The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) issued an emergency alert from Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis about the Waterville Damn in Newport, Tenn.

“The Waterville Dam has suffered a catastrophic failure. Evacuation of all of Downtown Newport immediately,” the alert read.

Earlier in the day, the U.S. National Weather Service also issued an evacuation alert for people living in the vicinity of another dam, this one in North Carolina.

The alert, issued on Friday morning, warned of flash flooding for the Lake Lure dam in North Carolina, urging residents to evacuate to higher ground immediately because of “imminent” dam failure.

Particularly dangerous situation’​



Tropical Storm Helene brought life-threatening flooding to the Carolinas on Friday after causing widespread destruction as a major hurricane moving through Florida and Georgia overnight. It killed at least 20 people, swamped neighbourhoods and left more than 4 million homes and businesses without power.

Helene hit Florida’s Big Bend region as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on Thursday at 11:10 p.m. ET (0310 GMT on Friday) and left a chaotic landscape of overturned boats in harbours, felled trees, submerged cars and flooded streets.


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Police and firefighters carried out thousands of water rescues throughout the affected states, including in Atlanta, where an apartment complex had to be evacuated due to flooding.

Helene came ashore in Florida with 140 mph (225 kph) winds, weakening to a tropical storm as it moved into Georgia early on Friday. It was carrying maximum sustained winds of near 45 mph (97 kph) as of 11 a.m. and was forecast to stall over the Tennessee Valley through the weekend.

Life-threatening storm surges, winds and heavy rains continued, the NHC said. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for several counties in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina on Friday morning.

“This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!” the service said.
 
Maryh

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My huge maple probably close to 100 yrs old just lost a very large limb and took out half of another tree and hit the fence on my patio. Two neighbors have already been in touch and son and son-in-law coming this weekend to cut it up. It's a mess. I was hoping for a new roof but didn't happen!
 
Kayak

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wvstuck said:
The Waterville dam in Tennessee has also just suffered a catastrophic failure.

Hurricane Helene: Tennessee dam suffers ‘catastrophic failure’ - National | Globalnews.ca

Emergency officials issued an immediate evacuation order for Newport, Tenn., on Friday as a dam suffered catastrophic failure as Hurricane Helene moved inland.
globalnews.ca globalnews.ca
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1839767262409982210
View: https://twitter.com/TennesseeEMA/status/1839767262409982210
 
Kayak

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psychgirl said:
Thank you.
Our cousins live in Charlotte area why o ask

I just got home from work finding out the news updates
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You can look at the Google traffic maps and get an idea of which roads are closed, and thus where the flooding is and is not, if you can't reach your people. Cell service is sketchy in the smaller cities and towns. Not sure about Charlotte.
 
psychgirl

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Kayak said:
You can look at the Google traffic maps and get an idea of which roads are closed, and thus where the flooding is and is not, if you can't reach your people. Cell service is sketchy in the smaller cities and towns. Not sure about Charlotte.
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I just sent him a text, but if he doesn’t respond it might just be due to no cell service
:(
 
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