{"id":107729,"date":"2024-09-28T01:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107729"},"modified":"2024-09-28T01:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T18:24:36","slug":"lake-lure-dam-overtopped-as-helene-floods-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107729","title":{"rendered":"Lake Lure Dam overtopped as Helene floods North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">Tropical Storm Helene, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane overnight, is now moving northeast through Georgia and the Carolinas.\u00a0FOX News&#8217; Chelsea Torres is live in Asheville, North Carolina, with the latest on what the area has experienced so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><strong>LAKE LURE, N.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Authorities are going house-to-house and urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina<\/a> mountains to evacuate as officials warn the barrier could be nearing failure.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Relentless rain from what was once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/tracking-hurricane-helene-florida-landfall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Helene<\/a> has resulted in catastrophic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/flood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flooding<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a> to North Carolina as the storm moves inland across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/southeast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southeast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Rutherford County Emergency Management officials issued a dire warning in a Facebook post Friday to residents near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/north-carolina\/lake-lure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake Lure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;Residents below the Lake Lure Dam need to evacuate to higher ground immediately!!&#8221; officials wrote in the post. &#8220;Dam failure imminient!! Evacuate to higher ground immediately!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">By Friday afternoon, officials said that the wall of the dam is currently holding but water from the flooded Broad River is overtopping it and support structures have been compromised.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;Evacuation sirens are sounding downstream of the Dam,&#8221; officials wrote on Facebook. &#8220;Emergency personnel are working with the structural engineers and are ogling house to house to ensure all citizens have been evacuated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/extreme-weather\/fox-weather-bob-van-dillen-rescues-woman-flood-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WATCH: FOX WEATHER METEOROLOGIST RESCUES WOMAN FROM RISING FLOODWATERS IN ATLANTA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The National Weather Service issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/learn\/explaining-flood-alerts-issued-by-national-weather-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flash Flood Emergency<\/a> for areas downstream of the dam, including River Creek Campground, Green Hill, Cleghorn and Union.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;Move to higher ground now!&#8221; NWS officials wrote in the warning. &#8220;This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Officials said a shelter has been set up at a high school and a church in the town of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/north-carolina\/rutherfordton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruthefordton<\/a>, about 20 miles to the southeast of Lake Lure.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">All of western North Carolina is under a high risk of flooding Friday, with as much as 20 inches of rain possible in some places before Helene moves away this weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/extreme-weather\/helene-coastal-storm-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>VIDEOS: HURRICANE HELENE PRODUCES RECORD STORM SURGE ALONG FLORIDA\u2019S GULF COAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-v-b8684aba=\"\">\n<div class=\"freeform-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/media.foxweather.com\/weather\/AL09%20FRI%20Flash%20Flood%20Outlook.png\"\/><figcaption>The flash flood outlook for Sept. 27, 2024.<br \/><strong>(FOX Weather)<\/strong><\/figcaption><hr\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/lake-lure-dam-emergency-north-carolina-flooding-helene\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Helene, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane overnight, is now moving northeast through Georgia and the Carolinas.\u00a0FOX News&#8217; Chelsea Torres is live in Asheville, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107729\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}