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Grande, with Mecklenburg County Emergency Management, said an official assessment of the damage on Lake and Riverside drives will begin Wednesday. The assessment, she said, would take about a week.
The flooding is ongoing, with significant amounts of water still moving downstream,” Paige Grande, spokesperson for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Management, said in an email to The Charlotte ...
Helene’s floodwater rushed down the mountains to the Catawba River, where residents question Duke Energy’s handling of what happened next.
Flooding on U.S. Route 64, facing west, in Henderson County on September 27, 2024. Of the 241 people reported victims of Hurricane Helene in the United States, 119 people were in North Carolina, surpassing the state record of 80 deaths recorded in a 1916 flood.
At least 165,000 Charlotte-area Duke Energy customers remained without power Saturday morning, including 45,000 in Mecklenburg County, after former Hurricane Helene knocked down trees and power ...
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Mecklenburg County’s storm damage, while significant, is only a small part of the overall damage and devastation across the region.However, it has ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the John H. Kerr Dam across the Roanoke River between 1947 and 1952 to produce hydroelectricity as well as for flood control. Kerr Lake is the largest lake in Virginia, with 850 miles (1,370 km) of shoreline located in Vance , Granville , and Warren counties in North Carolina, as well as Mecklenburg ...
Construction of the John H. Kerr dam was authorized by the 78th United States Congress in 1944 with the Flood Control Act of 1944 but did not commence until 1947. The site was selected because of the granite in the area that could support a large concrete dam. During early construction, the project was called Buggs Island Lake after a ...