Duke energy is owned by blackrock. These homeowners should sue blackrock for negligence. They have the money. Why am I not surprised, why is blackrock behind every sleazy thing happening in the world . They own a lions share of tractor supply and during the lockdown they screwing with the amount of protein in the chicken feed so chickens weren’t producing eggs. They were heavily involved in purchasing up single family homes and steering the real estate market. That company should be sued and dismantled, they are a menace to humanity. I’m exercising my first amendment right.
Why do we have a crisis actor standing there reading off a script about a sour smell inside of his refrigerator freezer why does this news channel use CIA brainwashing tactics to teach people to be 5 years old in mentality?
they may be the custodians who do the voting, but the owners are people who simply own index etfs. Be mad at Duke over this, but suing blackrock or vanguard would be beyond dumb. If you want to complain thats fine. You want to raise hell about it go talk to the politicians and demand some answers. Oh and for the record I live in Black Mountain NC I got friends who lost homes. I feel your pain, but if you want to channel it perhaps start talking about climate change and how we need to build systems that can handle it better. We can't turn back the clock, but we can do a whole bunch of things to reduce the damages from these terrible events.
You are correct . They opened up the gates to save lawns on Lake Norman. Duke Energy is guilty of all the losses the homes, cars and trucks , peoples lives.
In my lifetime (I'm 50) I've seen catastrophic flooding of the Tar, Neuse, Cape Fear, Mississippi, Missouri, Cedar, Iowa, Des Moines, Rock, Red, Cumberland and a few others I can't name. Utility companies and even the TVA and the US Army Corps of Engineers have yet to be able to successfully handle "100 year" floods...let alone these so-called "1000 year" events we've been seeing. There is no "safe" place in a river basin...dams or no...all that water has to get down stream.
But when they do happen shouldn't our people still be taken care of? I see our tax dollars leaving our country and even worse is it's going to people who think they are entitled to come here illegally and we take care of them and continue to send aid to their home countries. Why is it wrong to want them to stop all aid to them and redirect it to our own people, people who have helped to provide this aid? Shouldn't our people always be fully taken care of first?
During Clinton’s administration he used 20M taxpayer dollars to fund a study by 200 scientists across different fields to determine the best places to live to avoid loss of life due to natural disasters. After two years their research found that when you factor in volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, torrential rains, mudslides, floods, snowstorms, ice storms, drought, protracted excessive heat, below freezing temperatures, tornadoes, hurricanes and insect infestations there is no place on earth to escape from natural disasters. Twenty million dollars and two years by 200 highly educated adults concluded what many 5th graders could have not to mention most adults who have to pay insurance premiums.
Dams are built for different reasons, but the problem is it allows people to live in areas that they shouldn’t. When flood waters get too high dams become more of a problem. If they allow the natural floodplains to work as they should and not build homes in those areas, these things would not happen. Dams can fail and they can build up a lot of silt behind them, which raises the level of the river behind them and then the water has nowhere to go but out to the floodplain..
@wcnc This reporting feels lacking and irresponsible. Lake Wylie also got a level of protection - you should have stated why. Lake Norman and Lake Wylie have nuclear power plants on them, there is a much larger safety issue Duke Energy has to address. The reason they built these dams and lakes is to produce energy. I am sure Duke Energy does not want to damage or destroy anyone's home.
I completely agree with you and the news channel should have looked into it more than just the water, there are power plants that have to be protected. I also believe Duke Energy released the water accordingly to prevent another catastrophe, the dams breaking.
That is cold and sterile logic, reason fueled by facts... totally not welcome here, we are doing feelings and resentment, if you don't have any of that then we aren't interested.
Duke Power does employ the shifty. Not the same subject but in my neighborhood north of Charlotte a cell tower was sneaked in. At a meeting at my home their representative told us we should have known "by sight" that the tower was going up. It was only discovered when two neighbors jogging came across the concrete pad. An elderly neighbor claimed (correctly) that one footing was on her property! She had a flashlight to take him by the ear & show him. Another man said he needed to leave NOW. I said, "This is my home, if he's thrown out, I'll do it," and I handed him his coat. Fun times! We ended up in court and lost. In court, one rep pointed out a cell tower in the wall painting. I wanted to throw my shoe at him.
They said the same about six flags over ga and the 2010 nashville flood. The weekend of the flood was their grand opening on the lake and there was no pre release for the TWO ONCOMING STORMS predictions of a foot each to meet at the same time in middle tennessee. TVA said their email was down when the flodding started. 😢
This is pretty much the tale of the entire response. It's even worse out here in WNC where there was no government response at all. These people just don't see us as human beings.
I can't even imagine what you're going through. 💔 My heart broke when you said they don't see you as a human being. I read an article the other day and some journalists thought it would be a good idea to breakdown what has been given to the hurricane victims and what has been sent to Lebanon. It made me sick, mad, and embarrassed. How could anyone think it would be a good idea to compare who was receiving more federal aid? They tend to forget that this aid comes from the tax-paying American Citizens. He was trying to defend the Government saying the hurricane victims have gotten more money than Lebanon. American Citizens shouldn't be mad at where their tax dollars are going? We've earned that money to be used to better our own country not to be taking care of people who chant death to America. To many people have forgotten that every penny the government spends is provided by the American taxpayers and every penny borrowed has to be paid back by the American taxpayers. I've always been a problem solver, but how to solve how our American Citizens are treated by those who have so much power that they can ruin lives, hell they ended lives and our government is silent or just calls the people liars. Thinking we shouldn't be pissed off that all of our money isn't going back to help our people. I haven't had so much anger, sadness, disappointment built up in myself as I do now because of how so many have failed all of you. 😢 It hurts that I don't know how to get people to understand that our country's leaders aren't here for all of their people.
Maybe they haven’t got to you yet, but the NCDOT had opened 789 of 1200 roads that were closed. More than million pounds of food and water were delivered by the state and federal government. More than 3,150 soldiers have been working there in the aftermath of the storm. More than 1600, responders from 39 state and local agencies have performed 146 missions supporting the recovery efforts. More than 129 million in FEMA, individual assistance funds have been paid directly to people in that area and over 207,000 people have registered for assistance. Most cell phone towers have been restored and roads have been cleared. School districts have reopened and much more. That’s government response to an unprecedented tragedy. You can get in touch with FEMA or your local agencies for help if you haven’t yet.
They left people to die. It was civilians in private helicopters who came here and saved American lives this president abandoned. That should never have been a thing. It was a moral outrage. Some Americans did die waiting for help that never came. You just spouted propaganda at me.
@@greenmacaroni8872 Please stop posting propaganda at catastrophe victims that has nothing to do with what they said. I am not even allowed to post what happened here.
What a strange title. Is it also possible that by consequence of lake Norman being a much larger lake, the amount of incoming water had a smaller impact on the lake level than the other two vastly smaller lakes? if the whole region was getting the same rainfall, then the smaller lakes would be overwhelmed first.
even though they get paid millions of dollars, to configure that in ahead of time, this is the obvious perspective on why it could have been preventable. ... engineers are paid an insane amount of money in most cases especially when they're with a company that big that charges people outrageous amounts for electric.
@@soulsurvivor4499 Our lake systems were devised years before anybody cared about public safety in conjunction with insurance and law suit payouts. Gonna be hard to build back on that flood plain with modern building codes. Imagine your house was in the mountains...the quaint architecture of the past won't be a thing there anymore.
@@hpensive I think that Federal bolstering of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and all that good stuff should supersede any code if one were to apply themselves in the correct administrative form. Have you ever researched USC Title 18 section 241 and 242? We have to fight for our rights and continue to fight for our independence in an administrative manner to secure things to avoid conflict. Many people have been stockpiling non-necessities instead of books all these years.
@@soulsurvivor4499"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty" It's almost like Jefferson saw this coming...
@@consciouscollective33 Maybe. Dams CAN help regulate the waterflow to a degree. However, if you build within the historic reach of a river, you may get flooded.
Not to place blame on anybody and not to say that duke energy didnt do as much as they coyld have but when you have a home in a flood plain your just asking for heart break. Some people may live all there life in a flood plain and never experience flooding but it only takes one time to ruin your home. Its heart breaking for everyone
When the Powers that be claim " Owning the Weather 2025" by Geoengineering Weather, Weather Warfare, Tesla Weather Weapons being used, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars pdf.
@@Brenda0312F Do you even understand what that means? Just because you are not in a flood plane doesn't mean you never have to worry about water. There are a lot of people that live downstream of these dams that "ArEn'T iN a FlOoD pLaNe" but if the dam broke they would most certainly be underwater.
" Never, Ever, have I had 4 houses slam into mine." - I don't think many people have had that happen. God bless western NC. Such beautiful area, and great people.
You can go online and see all lake levels in the chain of lakes. I did this a couple days ago and every lake was equally about 3' above full pond. If you build on land that is flat and close to the water, you are going to flood. If Duke power tries to help Mt Island by releasing more water, then lake Wylie floods. Everyone gets treated equally.
Literally!! I'm so sick of stupid people, I'm in Florida and people are literally blaming the government for the hurricane, but not their politicians only the ones on the other side. The dunning-kruger affect is terrible 😅. Smart people doubt themselves but dumb people think they're brilliant 😩
I don't get why people are hating on this. The 11 lake system seems like its set up so that this company can basically decide what the level of each of these lakes will be with a given amount of water. They even reference that the company is regulated as to what expectable levels of each lake are for normal amounts of water. The two people interviewed are obviously mad that this company decided not to flood lake Norman as much as the other lakes. I think it's established that Duke Energy company could have done this if they were so inclined.
They don't understand. 1 inch in Lake Norman is 2ft in Mtn Island Lake. Lake Norman literally can't flood. It was higher than it ever had been before, but it can't "flood"...
@@riccochet704 Both above and beneath can. But no, Lake Norman cannot flood except for a small area directly underneath the upriver dam. (Lake Norman has 520 miles of shoreline)
@@Singlesix6" a small area directly underneath the up River Dam" - there I fixed that for you. It's not anyone's fault if you don't know how gravity and land levels work. I too live on a reservoir that is the result of a dammed River, and being 30 ft higher than the top of the damn means I'll never flood. See how that works?
Very few view counties in states have a choice of a small town electric companies very few across America. LEAVING ONLY one choice when you move in your residence to hook upto. How is that not monopolistic?
With the amount of rain and the widespread area,Duke did all they Could do. On Lake Keowee(another DukeEnergy lake) they opened two flood gates 12’ and had both turbines in the power house running to protect the dam from being over ran. More than likely they were doing what they did to protect the dam from failing. Can you imagine how much more the damage would have been if they did nothing and the dam was over ran and eventually washed out!
@DejiiJones_ having worked on duke energy dams that have broken such as in Eden and others that haven't. My comment is accurate. Duke Energy ALWAYS makes decisions in their self-interest as illustrated in this case NOT IN FAVOR OF THE PUBLIC.
I grew up around Clark's Hill dam on the ga/carolina line west of Augusta...And army Corp of engineers would tell the residents that build houses around the reservoir..We didn't build this for your comfort and recreation..
@@kevinmcdaniel641 No doubt, but the Asheville.gov site has a history of the Great Flood of 1916. The flood of floods at that time. Even some people south of Charlottesville VA have never heard of the 1969 Camille flood that killed over 100. Same theme, the leftover storm came over the mountains west to east and dropped 25 to 35 inches of rain one night resulting in raging creeks and rivers, mud slides and widespread destruction. I'm old enough to remember.
They could have but want do the right thing until they are made to. I have responded to many times to lake drive in Charlotte to help my mother and father in law per pair for the flooding. I have seen first hand the flooding and the cause why flooding happen. I’m not stupid and I can see the life and property dose not matter to Duke Prower it’s money if you live on Lake Norman you don’t have to worry you’ll be safe it’s the other people on the other stretch of the river that has to start over again and again and again and again until someone puts a stop to Duke power and it’s disregard of other people it is supposed to keep safe. Period!!!
We all know darn well. The energy company will do what's best for their shareholders and that's keeping the Richer people happy. I don't think that Duke energy should be in control of the damn in any way. It should be done by the federal government. Because Duke energy is a private business, it only cares about money and if they say they care about people what mass? If company cares that much about people they care about PR and money
It's more than stakeholder enrichment. A nuclear disaster would have been worse, and once power lines are restored then millions will get power once again. The 'needs of many vs needs of a few' issue. The power companies nationwide deal with these choices. But I do fault them for not providing a warning to current and future land owners that due to safety issues, some areas might have far more flooding than areas immediately adjacent. It could have been mailed in letters or better still, put into deeds. In GA, some counties have deed contain a clause advising buyers that adjacent properties have agricultural operations which might generate odors. People know 'going in' so to speak.
They won’t get I. Trouble. This magnitude of a storm could never have been predicted and the area was in a state of emergency. These people are crazy where they choose to live without knowing consequences.
The graph is pretty clear. The people aren’t imagining what happened. This is what happens when you let companies take control of essential infrastructure. Power, waste, water, and things required by government, should be under the authority of government. Tree trimming near power lines in FL went to the pits when the power companies were allowed to decide when, where, and how it got done. If your neighbors tree branch is blowing into a line and catching fire, they won’t cut it until it is a small distance away while at rest. A foot, if I recall. And if you want to get it cut sooner, there is a monopoly on tree cutting companies with training to do it near a power line. It will cost you bunches. Plus…you can’t cut a neighbors tree if it will kill the tree. It’s a mess, unless you happen to be a power company or a tree service that starts with an A…for them, it’s good times on the way to the bank!
I don't know. San Diego had a pretty bad flood recently and it's directly because the local government failed to maintain the drainage ways. You act like government employees are above being incompetent or getting bribed by private interest.
@@allisterforest1842 Is it that, or is like happened to Brevard County in FL? They didn’t hire enough workers to maintain the ditches. Which wouldn’t have been a big deal if all the low lands hadn’t been filled and turned into housing developments with zero lot line yards.
@@Mulberrysmile Sounds like a similar situation. California was suffering from a long drought for a few years. Allocating funds to ditch management might seem like a waste.
If there is nothing to hide and everything was good, then release the specifics on it. Simple. The fact they won't, gives us everything we need to know.
I feel for these homeowners, their loss is unfathomable. However, I appreciate Duke putting the welfare of the 2 nuclear power plants, 1 on Lake Norman and 1 on Lake Wylie, ahead of everything else. There would have been crazy amount of casualties, evaculations (we are in the J loop), destruction had anything happened to those plants. Even minor problems due to water could have resulted in loss of power to many people. Also, keep in mind our area experienced a storm that dump a lot of water and ended just hours before Helene came through, all around this was an unprecedented storm that will surely be studied by water management, govt agencies and the prepper community.
It is not a matter of evil in the comments whether you want to look at it or not there is evil in this world and these corporations are evil and they are being exposed so the people typing the comments are trying to expose the evil. Don't get it twisted. The Bible clearly states to Expose Evil.
How could Duke Energy Have done a full assessment that quickly? Pretty sure they weren't working/assessing their actions days immediately after the flood.
Total negligence. They knew this was coming and could have started releasing water days ahead of time. They purposely waited until the storm hit for maximum damage effect
i been looking at things, directions and wondering if these lakes, damns, controlled water systems, if they had decompressed or let out some of the water during and before worst of storm, if the floods would have been as bad once it hit... knowing how bad they were saying it would be.
Homage to the fatalities and survivors of Hurricane Helene! My inner eyewitness yearns to testify! Blessed be the infinite diversity of unconditional love and the beloved presence of life’s all encompassing universal empathy! Here’s to the love light, tear driven, empathy infused compassion…in deep regards, and in heart felt homage to the fatalities and survivors of Hurricane Helene! I don’t imagine that the supporters of Donald Trump and/or the supporters of Kamala Harris, respectively care where the water, food, clothing, tools, shelter, and the supplies they require for sustenance and surviving, comes from?! From surviving, to reviving, on their compassion and empathy laden, love light way to thriving! Just as I don’t imagine if any of the survivors of life’s never ending meteorological events care if their first responders are Republicans or Democrats! Be it a blue state…red state…a fleeting state of mind or a permanent state of Being…unconditional love, empathy, and compassion…are all good…are they not?! Let’s vote in accordance to the golden rule! Let’s vote in individual-collective accordance with all we have in common with each other, instead of the fear ridden self serving, self delusional differences that seemingly dreamingly separate us, despite the overwhelming incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, we are all world citizen sisters and brothers! Let it be…the necessities…of the food, clothing, shelter, tools, amusement, fuel/energy, and the need for universal love that we all have in common with one another that awakens the acknowledgment of the star seeded birthright divinity we share! As cooperation and collaboration offer the infinite grace of life’s most divine inspiration…with each and every breath we breathe…infusing the dormant (yet inherent) golden ruled heart-mind centered intentions into the One For All…All For Oneness, embedded within the quantum entanglement of our thoughts, words, actions, emotions. and feelings! What a soul seasoning, spirit refining, heart-mind opening reintroduction to the golden rule of life!
Please 🙏 have the air quality tested, independently tested if possible beautiful souls. A common theme I'm seeing 👀 is people citing that it's hard to breathe.
I think this is privileged rich people owning lake side property complaining about the other privileged rich people owning lake side property that weren't hit as hard. You really don't want to flood Lake Norman because if THAT dam fails, everyone down the Catawba is even more F'd. The entire city of Charlotte would flood. All those condos and gated McMansion communities near the Greenways would be very screwed. When I lived below the Lake Norman dam, I prayed with every hurricane that that dam would not fail and people need to be more grateful for that.
what's the point of their dams if they don't even prevent floods? seems like someone needs to get rid of duke and put someone in charge that knows what they're doing.
Just ask folks who survived Johnstown, PA flood in 1889. Rich folks built country club around dammed lake in mountains. They were warned that dam wasn’t stable and could fail and town of Johnstown at bottom mountains would be catastrophically wiped out by water. Rich folks did nothing. And….dam broke, water raced down mountains, slammed into town and 2,200 people died and rich people had zero consequences for their actions.
The local mainstream news is finally reporting like the national mainstream news should be reporting. Congratulations, you should win an award for actually doing the job the news is supposed to do. Maybe the national news who is full of talking head blokes with "out of touch" opinions formed in the echo chambers of the owners of the news networks, who are surrounded by "yes men and women," and who are losing viewers by the day -- should take notes.
I want to hear about the choppers with registration numbers hidden that flew way too low over private donation operations and blew the food everywhere.
You do know those helicopters are coming for us right? But They have to see more clouds and make more storms and then black rock comes in and takes our trailers away. That's what there're doing....I read it on my conspiracy media page!!!
@@PlutogalaxyBut just yesterday on some TH-camrs video they were saying how FEMA was taking away our constitutional rights by closing off airspace from civilian aircraft around the disaster area, and everyone in the comments was all upset about it. People really just react these days and don't stop to think.
Lake/Reservoir level management had priorities for best outcomes for everyone: 1) Maintaining the health of the dam(s) because of they collapse through uncontrolled water release everybody is going to be in worse condition and additional lives lost. (See Oroville Dam in california and the near miss they had with excess water behind the dam) Maintaining safe operation of the nuclear energy facilities. Nuclear reactors require water to maintain control of the facilities. Lack of water control means potential for meltdown. Should be self explanatory. If it is a choice between flooding some homes and businesses or collapse of the dam or a nuclear melt down there is no choice. These dams did offer protection to some extent as downhill flooding would have even worse without them. Hopefully there are things to learn to have even better function in this water network.
It seems the people upstream of the dams are complaining that NOT ENOUGH water was let out of the dams, resulting in upstream flooding, while the people downstream of the dams are complaining that TOO MUCH water was let out, resulting in downstream flooding? If true, it's impossible to let out both more and less water at the same time. During Hurricane Harvey, the Corp of Engineers was sued for both flooding upstream & downstream of their flood control reservoir. Those suits went nowhere.
You should understand the names James Goodnight and Jeremy Samson working for Schneider electric. Connect to WEF and Duke. There is lots to question here. This makes zero sense.
And the people in these positions are just yes men with an education from 30 years ago who think they know best. This is spoken from personal experience.
I think people are tending to just be arrogant about everything these days. Debate could be had. Understanding might be acquired but forget all that I already know I'm right.
I'm looking at the bigger picture when something like this happens shouldn't all aid going to non-citizens stop and be redirected to our own people? The money is provided by the American taxpayers. This shouldn't even be a conversation.
Oh it HAS to release the specifics. You folks need to get together and sue for transparency. File a federal complaint with the dept of energy. Also, govt should not allow an energy company to dam up water. Hydroelectric power is disaster waiting to happen. Well... here we are. Water needs to flow on its course. Nature needs to be left alone. There's wind, solar, and coal for power. And nuclear.
I want a bit more info, can someone link to a tributary map at all 3 of these lakes, as well as info on the size of the dams and their outflow capacity vs the inflow capacity of all tributaries at the recorded flood extremes before this. Remember if they let the biggest lake's dams become compromised the problem down stream would have become 100+x worse. I do feel they should have had all 3 lakes draining at max capacity from the moment forecasters began to see the flooding rains coming and if they didn't do that which should have been like a week prior. I could look back on youtube for several forecasters to see when they started warning about the historic rains hitting the mountains, aka the time all dams should have been opened to max level drops. and left that way. But if they did these things and those smaller lakes just had more inflow than they can outflow no one did anything wrong. I'm not saying they were managed correctly unless proof they were is present this would include time stamped in unfakable ways photo evidence of the dropping levels.
Virtually impossible to sue a global corporation or any corporation for that matter. Are you suggesting this idea during delirium? The deck is stacked. The corporation can restructure, file bankruptcy, sell out like Monsanto did to bayer...or they can litigate till you are broke or dead.
Anyone notice how when they showed all the big neighborhoods thry were zoomed way out????? Its because thoses were huge house in a private lake community owned by the rich. And btw that didnt look like what most consider actual WNC either. You might not feel bad ans watch the video if you new that the people there have money and means and will be fine. Still sucks for them and im sorry but....
Why is nobody talking about Lake toxaway and lake Glenville and all that area up there? I used to live at Sapphire Cashiers Highlands. I guarantee that Duke Power protected there also. Which is more expendable multi million dollar properties or poor people properties
Hindsight is 20/20. How dare the big evil corporation fail to predict an unprecedented, catastrophic natural disaster that no one else predicted either?
Because it isn't what they can do for our country it's about what our country can do for them. They have no shame in taking from the American Citizens, no shame whatsoever.
They probably want the people in the communities that were flooded to give up the land JUST so they can sell it to developers to make more “upscale” (but cheaply constructed) houses to sell to people even tho there are too many houses & not enough people who can afford to buy houses
Wait, the smaller lakes filled up faster than the smaller lakes when hit with unprecedented amounts of rain? Conspiracy..... Next you'll tell me the smaller lakes also had a lesser ability to release water as well. It sucks for those who lost homes, but trying to blame your neighbors who work for Duke who individually worked their asses off to minimize loss is just not something to toss around casually.
Duke energy is owned by blackrock. These homeowners should sue blackrock for negligence. They have the money. Why am I not surprised, why is blackrock behind every sleazy thing happening in the world . They own a lions share of tractor supply and during the lockdown they screwing with the amount of protein in the chicken feed so chickens weren’t producing eggs. They were heavily involved in purchasing up single family homes and steering the real estate market. That company should be sued and dismantled, they are a menace to humanity. I’m exercising my first amendment right.
I think you and I know some of the same things.
Why do we have a crisis actor standing there reading off a script about a sour smell inside of his refrigerator freezer why does this news channel use CIA brainwashing tactics to teach people to be 5 years old in mentality?
Actually, Vanguard.
@@jessicadubois9945 Black Rock, Vangaurd - both feathers on the same winged serpent
they may be the custodians who do the voting, but the owners are people who simply own index etfs. Be mad at Duke over this, but suing blackrock or vanguard would be beyond dumb.
If you want to complain thats fine. You want to raise hell about it go talk to the politicians and demand some answers.
Oh and for the record I live in Black Mountain NC I got friends who lost homes. I feel your pain, but if you want to channel it perhaps start talking about climate change and how we need to build systems that can handle it better. We can't turn back the clock, but we can do a whole bunch of things to reduce the damages from these terrible events.
If they have nothing to hide, why are they hiding the details this reporter says they wouldn't give them??
Because no company wants to say we fucked up x people's lives to save x y and z from nuclear meltdown when a reactor floods?
It begins and ends with Blackrock.
You are correct . They opened up the gates to save lawns on Lake Norman. Duke Energy is guilty of all the losses the homes, cars and trucks , peoples lives.
Don’t leave your home! That’s what they want! Fight! Fight! Fight!
In my lifetime (I'm 50) I've seen catastrophic flooding of the Tar, Neuse, Cape Fear, Mississippi, Missouri, Cedar, Iowa, Des Moines, Rock, Red, Cumberland and a few others I can't name. Utility companies and even the TVA and the US Army Corps of Engineers have yet to be able to successfully handle "100 year" floods...let alone these so-called "1000 year" events we've been seeing. There is no "safe" place in a river basin...dams or no...all that water has to get down stream.
Doesn't seem to be any safe place high in the mountains, either...
But when they do happen shouldn't our people still be taken care of? I see our tax dollars leaving our country and even worse is it's going to people who think they are entitled to come here illegally and we take care of them and continue to send aid to their home countries. Why is it wrong to want them to stop all aid to them and redirect it to our own people, people who have helped to provide this aid? Shouldn't our people always be fully taken care of first?
@@PamMinnick wrong thread. I'm not even gonna address your silly ass.
@@mimiashford5544 not if you're next to a river, creekbed or volcano.
During Clinton’s administration he used 20M taxpayer dollars to fund a study by 200 scientists across different fields to determine the best places to live to avoid loss of life due to natural disasters. After two years their research found that when you factor in volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, torrential rains, mudslides, floods, snowstorms, ice storms, drought, protracted excessive heat, below freezing temperatures, tornadoes, hurricanes and insect infestations there is no place on earth to escape from natural disasters. Twenty million dollars and two years by 200 highly educated adults concluded what many 5th graders could have not to mention most adults who have to pay insurance premiums.
God bless you all. Don't leave
Dams are built for different reasons, but the problem is it allows people to live in areas that they shouldn’t. When flood waters get too high dams become more of a problem. If they allow the natural floodplains to work as they should and not build homes in those areas, these things would not happen. Dams can fail and they can build up a lot of silt behind them, which raises the level of the river behind them and then the water has nowhere to go but out to the floodplain..
It's preventable if they would lower the water levels year round before storm season. It's common sense. Duke fell asleep.
If it’s just that easy then wow … if lake levels could have been lowered the day before the storm then wow what gross negligence they displayed
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I would have said two weeks prior.
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They would have had to lower the reservoirs well in advance. 24 hours isn't enough time.
So many just can’t believe that they might actually do this deliberately… but they need to start waking up.
Intentional
Sad times indeed!
Work carefully, be kind, & help others safely!
The sad truth is,
that big corporations get away with murder,
on a regular basis!
BLACKROCK VANGUARD SHAREHOLDERS IN EVERYTHING TELLS THEM WHAT TO SAY--YOU CANT TOUCH US BIG DOGS
@wcnc This reporting feels lacking and irresponsible. Lake Wylie also got a level of protection - you should have stated why. Lake Norman and Lake Wylie have nuclear power plants on them, there is a much larger safety issue Duke Energy has to address. The reason they built these dams and lakes is to produce energy. I am sure Duke Energy does not want to damage or destroy anyone's home.
Idiot
I completely agree with you and the news channel should have looked into it more than just the water, there are power plants that have to be protected.
I also believe Duke Energy released the water accordingly to prevent another catastrophe, the dams breaking.
If they do have nukes drawing cooling water from those lakes then yeah.. sorry folks but your house isnt as Important keeping nuclear reactors cooled.
BLACKROCK VANGUARD ARE THE MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS OF ALL ENERGY COS.THEY MAKE ALL DECISIONS
That is cold and sterile logic, reason fueled by facts... totally not welcome here, we are doing feelings and resentment, if you don't have any of that then we aren't interested.
You’re always going to be at a heightened risk of flooding if you’re in close proximity to a body of water.
Duke Power does employ the shifty. Not the same subject but in my neighborhood north of Charlotte a cell tower was sneaked in. At a meeting at my home their representative told us we should have known "by sight" that the tower was going up. It was only discovered when two neighbors jogging came across the concrete pad. An elderly neighbor claimed (correctly) that one footing was on her property! She had a flashlight to take him by the ear & show him. Another man said he needed to leave NOW. I said, "This is my home, if he's thrown out, I'll do it," and I handed him his coat. Fun times! We ended up in court and lost. In court, one rep pointed out a cell tower in the wall painting. I wanted to throw my shoe at him.
There is no Justice in America only a Banana Republic.
They said the same about six flags over ga and the 2010 nashville flood. The weekend of the flood was their grand opening on the lake and there was no pre release for the TWO ONCOMING STORMS predictions of a foot each to meet at the same time in middle tennessee. TVA said their email was down when the flodding started. 😢
Always trust what the corporation says...NOT! How many executives have homes on the lake they didn't flood?
Excellent thought
This is pretty much the tale of the entire response. It's even worse out here in WNC where there was no government response at all. These people just don't see us as human beings.
I can't even imagine what you're going through. 💔 My heart broke when you said they don't see you as a human being. I read an article the other day and some journalists thought it would be a good idea to breakdown what has been given to the hurricane victims and what has been sent to Lebanon. It made me sick, mad, and embarrassed. How could anyone think it would be a good idea to compare who was receiving more federal aid? They tend to forget that this aid comes from the tax-paying American Citizens. He was trying to defend the Government saying the hurricane victims have gotten more money than Lebanon. American Citizens shouldn't be mad at where their tax dollars are going? We've earned that money to be used to better our own country not to be taking care of people who chant death to America. To many people have forgotten that every penny the government spends is provided by the American taxpayers and every penny borrowed has to be paid back by the American taxpayers. I've always been a problem solver, but how to solve how our American Citizens are treated by those who have so much power that they can ruin lives, hell they ended lives and our government is silent or just calls the people liars. Thinking we shouldn't be pissed off that all of our money isn't going back to help our people. I haven't had so much anger, sadness, disappointment built up in myself as I do now because of how so many have failed all of you. 😢 It hurts that I don't know how to get people to understand that our country's leaders aren't here for all of their people.
The American citizens came and are continuing to come to your aid. This is what unites a nation. It's time to dismantle the useless FEMA.
Maybe they haven’t got to you yet, but the NCDOT had opened 789 of 1200 roads that were closed. More than million pounds of food and water were delivered by the state and federal government. More than 3,150 soldiers have been working there in the aftermath of the storm. More than 1600, responders from 39 state and local agencies have performed 146 missions supporting the recovery efforts. More than 129 million in FEMA, individual assistance funds have been paid directly to people in that area and over 207,000 people have registered for assistance. Most cell phone towers have been restored and roads have been cleared. School districts have reopened and much more. That’s government response to an unprecedented tragedy. You can get in touch with FEMA or your local agencies for help if you haven’t yet.
They left people to die. It was civilians in private helicopters who came here and saved American lives this president abandoned. That should never have been a thing. It was a moral outrage. Some Americans did die waiting for help that never came. You just spouted propaganda at me.
@@greenmacaroni8872 Please stop posting propaganda at catastrophe victims that has nothing to do with what they said. I am not even allowed to post what happened here.
THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF ALL THOSE PEOPLE!!!
It was a Manmade Hurricane and yes it was a Crime. Crimes Against Humanity.
What a strange title. Is it also possible that by consequence of lake Norman being a much larger lake, the amount of incoming water had a smaller impact on the lake level than the other two vastly smaller lakes? if the whole region was getting the same rainfall, then the smaller lakes would be overwhelmed first.
even though they get paid millions of dollars, to configure that in ahead of time, this is the obvious perspective on why it could have been preventable.
... engineers are paid an insane amount of money in most cases especially when they're with a company that big that charges people outrageous amounts for electric.
@@soulsurvivor4499 Our lake systems were devised years before anybody cared about public safety in conjunction with insurance and law suit payouts.
Gonna be hard to build back on that flood plain with modern building codes. Imagine your house was in the mountains...the quaint architecture of the past won't be a thing there anymore.
@@hpensive I think that Federal bolstering of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and all that good stuff should supersede any code if one were to apply themselves in the correct administrative form.
Have you ever researched USC Title 18 section 241 and 242?
We have to fight for our rights and continue to fight for our independence in an administrative manner to secure things to avoid conflict.
Many people have been stockpiling non-necessities instead of books all these years.
If they did nothing wrong why won’t they release the information to back this claim?
@@soulsurvivor4499"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty"
It's almost like Jefferson saw this coming...
Praying for everyone affected 💔🌀
It is sad people are seeing the negative impacts of damming these waterways.
@@consciouscollective33
Maybe.
Dams CAN help regulate the waterflow to a degree.
However, if you build within the historic reach of a river, you may get flooded.
Not to place blame on anybody and not to say that duke energy didnt do as much as they coyld have but when you have a home in a flood plain your just asking for heart break. Some people may live all there life in a flood plain and never experience flooding but it only takes one time to ruin your home. Its heart breaking for everyone
When the Powers that be claim " Owning the Weather 2025" by Geoengineering Weather, Weather Warfare, Tesla Weather Weapons being used, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars pdf.
Imagine living right next to a river and then getting upset because it floods. The mental gymnastics here is astonishing.
Very true
Thousands were not within the flood plain though… 🤷🏻♀️
@@Brenda0312F Do you even understand what that means? Just because you are not in a flood plane doesn't mean you never have to worry about water. There are a lot of people that live downstream of these dams that "ArEn'T iN a FlOoD pLaNe" but if the dam broke they would most certainly be underwater.
" Never, Ever, have I had 4 houses slam into mine."
- I don't think many people have had that happen.
God bless western NC. Such beautiful area, and great people.
You can go online and see all lake levels in the chain of lakes. I did this a couple days ago and every lake was equally about 3' above full pond. If you build on land that is flat and close to the water, you are going to flood. If Duke power tries to help Mt Island by releasing more water, then lake Wylie floods. Everyone gets treated equally.
But did they pre release enough before the storm
@kevinmcdaniel641 I don't work for Duke Power, ask them.
@@mybassfishingaddiction I highly doubt they'll be willing to admit to any wrong doing
Everyone absolutely _does not_ get treated equally. 🤦♂️
At 2:15 They said it all They control
Mr. Raegan's words come true all 9 of them.
Huge lawsuit against Blackrock... 💥
News channels need to stop interviewing people who don't know how things work.
You mean the regular average citizen? Wow.. You just promoted State propaganda you realize don't you? North Korea and China would be proud.
Speed at getting a vid up to pay the bills is way more important. They're dying if TH-cam doesn't keep them going. Quality is long gone.
Literally!! I'm so sick of stupid people, I'm in Florida and people are literally blaming the government for the hurricane, but not their politicians only the ones on the other side. The dunning-kruger affect is terrible 😅. Smart people doubt themselves but dumb people think they're brilliant 😩
@@angiepangie989Florida is where woke goes to die, according to your governor. Too bad he’s illiterate and can’t eat with a fork.
I don't get why people are hating on this. The 11 lake system seems like its set up so that this company can basically decide what the level of each of these lakes will be with a given amount of water. They even reference that the company is regulated as to what expectable levels of each lake are for normal amounts of water.
The two people interviewed are obviously mad that this company decided not to flood lake Norman as much as the other lakes. I think it's established that Duke Energy company could have done this if they were so inclined.
You got a taste of what our companies do all over the world.
They don't understand. 1 inch in Lake Norman is 2ft in Mtn Island Lake. Lake Norman literally can't flood. It was higher than it ever had been before, but it can't "flood"...
Hush! You're making sense!
It's a river that's dammed, it can flood.
@@riccochet704 Both above and beneath can. But no, Lake Norman cannot flood except for a small area directly underneath the upriver dam. (Lake Norman has 520 miles of shoreline)
@@Tina-mt9cl "...except..."
@@Singlesix6" a small area directly underneath the up River Dam" - there I fixed that for you. It's not anyone's fault if you don't know how gravity and land levels work. I too live on a reservoir that is the result of a dammed River, and being 30 ft higher than the top of the damn means I'll never flood. See how that works?
Very few view counties in states have a choice of a small town electric companies very few across America. LEAVING ONLY one choice when you move in your residence to hook upto. How is that not monopolistic?
Pray s for you to have a home restored for each american affected with floods❤
With the amount of rain and the widespread area,Duke did all they Could do. On Lake Keowee(another DukeEnergy lake) they opened two flood gates 12’ and had both turbines in the power house running to protect the dam from being over ran. More than likely they were doing what they did to protect the dam from failing. Can you imagine how much more the damage would have been if they did nothing and the dam was over ran and eventually washed out!
You must not know how they really operate.
@@dodsonarmsco So damns can’t break 🤔
@DejiiJones_ having worked on duke energy dams that have broken such as in Eden and others that haven't. My comment is accurate. Duke Energy ALWAYS makes decisions in their self-interest as illustrated in this case NOT IN FAVOR OF THE PUBLIC.
Well I’d rather believe the people and not a corporation!!!!!
I grew up around Clark's Hill dam on the ga/carolina line west of Augusta...And army Corp of engineers would tell the residents that build houses around the reservoir..We didn't build this for your comfort and recreation..
Risky
Whoever zoned these areas failed this community they never had a hind-site of extreme flooding.
Flood maps are way out of date
@@kevinmcdaniel641 No doubt, but the Asheville.gov site has a history of the Great Flood of 1916. The flood of floods at that time.
Even some people south of Charlottesville VA have never heard of the 1969 Camille flood that killed over 100. Same theme, the leftover storm came over the mountains west to east and dropped 25 to 35 inches of rain one night resulting in raging creeks and rivers, mud slides and widespread destruction. I'm old enough to remember.
Building in a known flood plain, always looking for somebody else to blame. This is nonsense.
Such a stupid comment
Yea, the fortune 150 company should have better business morals.
Some of these homes have been in their families for hundreds of years. You know kind of like before Duke power built.
There is a LOT of money on Lake Norman in case anyone was wondering.
Heck ya.
The same thing happened in TX during the floods last spring! The rich people's homes were protected!
Things are getting better and people are pointing fingers
They could have but want do the right thing until they are made to. I have responded to many times to lake drive in Charlotte to help my mother and father in law per pair for the flooding. I have seen first hand the flooding and the cause why flooding happen. I’m not stupid and I can see the life and property dose not matter to Duke Prower it’s money if you live on Lake Norman you don’t have to worry you’ll be safe it’s the other people on the other stretch of the river that has to start over again and again and again and again until someone puts a stop to Duke power and it’s disregard of other people it is supposed to keep safe. Period!!!
We all know darn well. The energy company will do what's best for their shareholders and that's keeping the Richer people happy. I don't think that Duke energy should be in control of the damn in any way. It should be done by the federal government. Because Duke energy is a private business, it only cares about money and if they say they care about people what mass? If company cares that much about people they care about PR and money
I wish more people would wake up and realize this.
Private companies give no shits about you, only if their numbers go up.
It's more than stakeholder enrichment. A nuclear disaster would have been worse, and once power lines are restored then millions will get power once again. The 'needs of many vs needs of a few' issue. The power companies nationwide deal with these choices. But I do fault them for not providing a warning to current and future land owners that due to safety issues, some areas might have far more flooding than areas immediately adjacent. It could have been mailed in letters or better still, put into deeds. In GA, some counties have deed contain a clause advising buyers that adjacent properties have agricultural operations which might generate odors. People know 'going in' so to speak.
You mean like FEMA? They did a bang-up job didn't get here for a week or so after the the walls of water and mud came down
What do you do leave? Let somebody else clean it up. Maybe the bank should take care of it. Their property.
Ask people in Harlan County, KY how much Duke Power cares about working class people.
Duke isn’t in Harlan County. Cumberland Valley Electric and Kentucky Power are the utilities there.
There’s a reason for this happening somebodyfailed somewhere!😮😢
No good deed goes unpunished. Just let the dams and spillways break next time. 🙄
They won’t get I. Trouble. This magnitude of a storm could never have been predicted and the area was in a state of emergency. These people are crazy where they choose to live without knowing consequences.
The graph is pretty clear. The people aren’t imagining what happened.
This is what happens when you let companies take control of essential infrastructure. Power, waste, water, and things required by government, should be under the authority of government. Tree trimming near power lines in FL went to the pits when the power companies were allowed to decide when, where, and how it got done.
If your neighbors tree branch is blowing into a line and catching fire, they won’t cut it until it is a small distance away while at rest. A foot, if I recall. And if you want to get it cut sooner, there is a monopoly on tree cutting companies with training to do it near a power line. It will cost you bunches. Plus…you can’t cut a neighbors tree if it will kill the tree. It’s a mess, unless you happen to be a power company or a tree service that starts with an A…for them, it’s good times on the way to the bank!
I don't know. San Diego had a pretty bad flood recently and it's directly because the local government failed to maintain the drainage ways. You act like government employees are above being incompetent or getting bribed by private interest.
@@allisterforest1842
Is it that, or is like happened to Brevard County in FL?
They didn’t hire enough workers to maintain the ditches.
Which wouldn’t have been a big deal if all the low lands hadn’t been filled and turned into housing developments with zero lot line yards.
@@Mulberrysmile Sounds like a similar situation. California was suffering from a long drought for a few years. Allocating funds to ditch management might seem like a waste.
If there is nothing to hide and everything was good, then release the specifics on it. Simple. The fact they won't, gives us everything we need to know.
I feel for these homeowners, their loss is unfathomable. However, I appreciate Duke putting the welfare of the 2 nuclear power plants, 1 on Lake Norman and 1 on Lake Wylie, ahead of everything else. There would have been crazy amount of casualties, evaculations (we are in the J loop), destruction had anything happened to those plants. Even minor problems due to water could have resulted in loss of power to many people. Also, keep in mind our area experienced a storm that dump a lot of water and ended just hours before Helene came through, all around this was an unprecedented storm that will surely be studied by water management, govt agencies and the prepper community.
Everyone knows that Duke energy would never lie. They are the most honest and trustworthy utility on the planet.
Said no one ever!
Okay. Shut down the nuclear reactor on this lake that depends on a stable water level.
There's a lot of evil in these comments. I hope you all can find love and meaning in your life.
they dumb that is why politics feed on them
It is not a matter of evil in the comments whether you want to look at it or not there is evil in this world and these corporations are evil and they are being exposed so the people typing the comments are trying to expose the evil. Don't get it twisted. The Bible clearly states to Expose Evil.
Fight fight fight don’t give in or give up you have to right to be protected.
How could Duke Energy Have done a full assessment that quickly? Pretty sure they weren't working/assessing their actions days immediately after the flood.
Total negligence. They knew this was coming and could have started releasing water days ahead of time. They purposely waited until the storm hit for maximum damage effect
Y'all need to look into the Dam near MARION! TRUST ME!
i been looking at things, directions and wondering if these lakes, damns, controlled water systems, if they had decompressed or let out some of the water during and before worst of storm, if the floods would have been as bad once it hit... knowing how bad they were saying it would be.
you are right but why would they let the water out when they seeded the clouds and filled them up. From what I have gathered is Wyoming is next.
@@funadventure4927just like how they won't redirect aid going to other countries and people here illegally to our own people.
Bull shat. That larger lake was protected. I'm in NZ watching all this news & that's plain as day.
Dams have set limits when you go over the dam fails causing more damage and lost of life
Homage to the fatalities and survivors of Hurricane Helene!
My inner eyewitness yearns to testify!
Blessed be the infinite diversity of unconditional love and the beloved presence of life’s all encompassing universal empathy!
Here’s to the love light, tear driven, empathy infused compassion…in deep regards, and in heart felt homage to the fatalities and survivors of Hurricane Helene!
I don’t imagine that the supporters of Donald Trump and/or the supporters of Kamala Harris, respectively care where the water, food, clothing, tools, shelter, and the supplies they require for sustenance and surviving, comes from?!
From surviving, to reviving, on their compassion and empathy laden, love light way to thriving!
Just as I don’t imagine if any of the survivors of life’s never ending meteorological events care if their first responders are Republicans or Democrats!
Be it a blue state…red state…a fleeting state of mind or a permanent state of Being…unconditional love, empathy, and compassion…are all good…are they not?!
Let’s vote in accordance to the golden rule!
Let’s vote in individual-collective accordance with all we have in common with each other, instead of the fear ridden self serving, self delusional differences that seemingly dreamingly separate us, despite the overwhelming incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, we are all world citizen sisters and brothers!
Let it be…the necessities…of the food, clothing, shelter, tools, amusement, fuel/energy, and the need for universal love that we all have in common with one another that awakens the acknowledgment of the star seeded birthright divinity we share!
As cooperation and collaboration offer the infinite grace of life’s most divine inspiration…with each and every breath we breathe…infusing the dormant (yet inherent) golden ruled heart-mind centered intentions into the One For All…All For Oneness, embedded within the quantum entanglement of our thoughts, words, actions, emotions. and feelings!
What a soul seasoning, spirit refining, heart-mind opening reintroduction to the golden rule of life!
Normally, the Corps of engineers controls lake levels around the country and has had similar claims after flood events
Gotta blame someone , evidently Duke Energy has the most money.
Please 🙏 have the air quality tested, independently tested if possible beautiful souls. A common theme I'm seeing 👀 is people citing that it's hard to breathe.
lots of airbnb/blackstone properties on the lake???
Does that surprise anybody
Kinda like Maui. The few control the many
Lake Lookout Dam has been cracked up since 1930.
I think this is privileged rich people owning lake side property complaining about the other privileged rich people owning lake side property that weren't hit as hard.
You really don't want to flood Lake Norman because if THAT dam fails, everyone down the Catawba is even more F'd. The entire city of Charlotte would flood. All those condos and gated McMansion communities near the Greenways would be very screwed.
When I lived below the Lake Norman dam, I prayed with every hurricane that that dam would not fail and people need to be more grateful for that.
what's the point of their dams if they don't even prevent floods? seems like someone needs to get rid of duke and put someone in charge that knows what they're doing.
Just ask folks who survived Johnstown, PA flood in 1889. Rich folks built country club around dammed lake in mountains. They were warned that dam wasn’t stable and could fail and town of Johnstown at bottom mountains would be catastrophically wiped out by water. Rich folks did nothing. And….dam broke, water raced down mountains, slammed into town and 2,200 people died and rich people had zero consequences for their actions.
And they are ordered NO TO talk about who and why they open the levy!!
Fully open in 40s, a water wall that cleaned the canyon!!
Building along a flood area isn't the power company fault. Unwise building and nature prevails.
Sounds to me like Duke Energy did the thing they're licensed to do...keep the lake at a nominal working level.
The local mainstream news is finally reporting like the national mainstream news should be reporting. Congratulations, you should win an award for actually doing the job the news is supposed to do. Maybe the national news who is full of talking head blokes with "out of touch" opinions formed in the echo chambers of the owners of the news networks, who are surrounded by "yes men and women," and who are losing viewers by the day -- should take notes.
Who even. Listens to FAKE. NEWS
I hope you can sue them
Norman only went up 3 ft.. someone didn’t alert residents until it was too late..
Stop promoting people who don't know what they are talking about this is why Americans are so divided bc facts don't seem to matter anymore. Wtf
I want to hear about the choppers with registration numbers hidden that flew way too low over private donation operations and blew the food everywhere.
*LET THIS STUPID STORY GO!. THEY WANT PUBLICITY!. **#PERIOD*
You do know those helicopters are coming for us right? But They have to see more clouds and make more storms and then black rock comes in and takes our trailers away. That's what there're doing....I read it on my conspiracy media page!!!
@@Plutogalaxyshow the link
@@Plutogalaxy Not the Chinook.
@@PlutogalaxyBut just yesterday on some TH-camrs video they were saying how FEMA was taking away our constitutional rights by closing off airspace from civilian aircraft around the disaster area, and everyone in the comments was all upset about it. People really just react these days and don't stop to think.
So....where is the Duke Energy CEO and Board of Director's vacation homes at on Lake Norman?
Lake/Reservoir level management had priorities for best outcomes for everyone:
1) Maintaining the health of the dam(s) because of they collapse through uncontrolled water release everybody is going to be in worse condition and additional lives lost. (See Oroville Dam in california and the near miss they had with excess water behind the dam)
Maintaining safe operation of the nuclear energy facilities. Nuclear reactors require water to maintain control of the facilities. Lack of water control means potential for meltdown. Should be self explanatory.
If it is a choice between flooding some homes and businesses or collapse of the dam or a nuclear melt down there is no choice. These dams did offer protection to some extent as downhill flooding would have even worse without them. Hopefully there are things to learn to have even better function in this water network.
I've learned one thing greed knows no bounds.
If they won't turn over documents there not telling the truth.
Hold DUKE ACCOUNTABLE point blank !!
It seems the people upstream of the dams are complaining that NOT ENOUGH water was let out of the dams, resulting in upstream flooding, while the people downstream of the dams are complaining that TOO MUCH water was let out, resulting in downstream flooding? If true, it's impossible to let out both more and less water at the same time. During Hurricane Harvey, the Corp of Engineers was sued for both flooding upstream & downstream of their flood control reservoir. Those suits went nowhere.
You should understand the names James Goodnight and Jeremy Samson working for Schneider electric. Connect to WEF and Duke. There is lots to question here. This makes zero sense.
I would not believe Duke for a minute . All energy companies lie all the time.
Everyone is expert crypto, hydrology, meteorologist and rescue/recovery/FEMA expert these days.
half of the people that are paid in those positions, are inadequate.
it makes good balance
And the people in these positions are just yes men with an education from 30 years ago who think they know best. This is spoken from personal experience.
I think people are tending to just be arrogant about everything these days. Debate could be had. Understanding might be acquired but forget all that I already know I'm right.
Something went horribly wrong!
So doesn’t Lake Norman have a nuclear power plant along it and wouldn’t the disaster have been way worse had that water hit the power plant?
I'm looking at the bigger picture when something like this happens shouldn't all aid going to non-citizens stop and be redirected to our own people? The money is provided by the American taxpayers. This shouldn't even be a conversation.
Oh it HAS to release the specifics. You folks need to get together and sue for transparency. File a federal complaint with the dept of energy. Also, govt should not allow an energy company to dam up water. Hydroelectric power is disaster waiting to happen. Well... here we are. Water needs to flow on its course. Nature needs to be left alone. There's wind, solar, and coal for power. And nuclear.
Yep. Everything has to be somebody's fault. We all need someone to blame.
I want a bit more info, can someone link to a tributary map at all 3 of these lakes, as well as info on the size of the dams and their outflow capacity vs the inflow capacity of all tributaries at the recorded flood extremes before this. Remember if they let the biggest lake's dams become compromised the problem down stream would have become 100+x worse. I do feel they should have had all 3 lakes draining at max capacity from the moment forecasters began to see the flooding rains coming and if they didn't do that which should have been like a week prior. I could look back on youtube for several forecasters to see when they started warning about the historic rains hitting the mountains, aka the time all dams should have been opened to max level drops. and left that way. But if they did these things and those smaller lakes just had more inflow than they can outflow no one did anything wrong. I'm not saying they were managed correctly unless proof they were is present this would include time stamped in unfakable ways photo evidence of the dropping levels.
Get a lawyer and settle in court
Virtually impossible to sue a global corporation or any corporation for that matter. Are you suggesting this idea during delirium?
The deck is stacked. The corporation can restructure, file bankruptcy, sell out like Monsanto did to bayer...or they can litigate till you are broke or dead.
Sue them then…
Anyone notice how when they showed all the big neighborhoods thry were zoomed way out????? Its because thoses were huge house in a private lake community owned by the rich. And btw that didnt look like what most consider actual WNC either. You might not feel bad ans watch the video if you new that the people there have money and means and will be fine. Still sucks for them and im sorry but....
Why is nobody talking about Lake toxaway and lake Glenville and all that area up there? I used to live at Sapphire Cashiers Highlands. I guarantee that Duke Power protected there also.
Which is more expendable multi million dollar properties or poor people properties
Hindsight is 20/20. How dare the big evil corporation fail to predict an unprecedented, catastrophic natural disaster that no one else predicted either?
They won't give specifics because they screwed up!
I can’t figure out what happened
I never see any recent migrant volunteers?Thats a large labor pool…Whats wrong with this picture?
Because it isn't what they can do for our country it's about what our country can do for them. They have no shame in taking from the American Citizens, no shame whatsoever.
They probably want the people in the communities that were flooded to give up the land JUST so they can sell it to developers to make more “upscale” (but cheaply constructed) houses to sell to people even tho there are too many houses & not enough people who can afford to buy houses
How else would there be that much water
Sue crap out of them
Wait, the smaller lakes filled up faster than the smaller lakes when hit with unprecedented amounts of rain? Conspiracy..... Next you'll tell me the smaller lakes also had a lesser ability to release water as well. It sucks for those who lost homes, but trying to blame your neighbors who work for Duke who individually worked their asses off to minimize loss is just not something to toss around casually.