As Helene weakens, the now-tropical storm’s strong winds and heavy rain continue to wreak havoc across the Southeast U.S., including in North Carolina where at least one county has ordered evacuations.
Rutherford County’s Emergency Management ordered residents who live on certain roads to evacuate to higher areas due to water overtopping the Lake Lure Dam, according to a Facebook post shared by the government office Friday morning .
Emergency officials warned in an 11 a.m. ET Facebook post that failure of Lake Lure Dam was “imminent.”
That update came after the Rutherford County Emergency Management reported “catastrophic flows along the Broad River into Lake Lure” were overtopping the dam, resulting in major flooding downstream, per the National Weather Service (NWS).
Officials released a list of roads on which residents are ordered to evacuate. You can view the list on the Rutherford County Emergency Management Facebook page.
The dam is roughly 30 miles southeast of Asheville.