One of the things I want to hit on in North Carolina, so there are a lot of moving parts,

people are still kind of digging out and picking through things to see what, who's at fault,

was anybody at fault, was it's just truly a natural disaster and some of the local reporting in Charlotte

was reporting this. Helene flooding damages, Mountain Island Lake Homes, some

Blake blamed Duke Energy for it. Duke Energy is the hydroelectric dam company.

They run about 11 lake system

and all of these systems come down from basically,

you've come down from the mountain,

they go into the ocean,

but they're

there are these lake systems that they can control somewhat the levels of water in these dams.

And so when we saw the people experience

these gushing waters coming down,

a lot of people were questioning,

was there some issues with the dams?

Were anybody else at fault?

And you go into this article, and they're quoting some residents.

One of the residents says they could have taken steps well in advance to drastically lower

levels at all lakes in the 11 lake system to the bare minimum they're allowed to, said

Generison 64. But then they spoke to Duke Energy

a spokesperson and they said due to the size of Mountain Island Lake now Mountain Island Lake is like the

choke point that's the one lake that these run into but that's the choke point for this water flow. Due to the size of Mountain Island Lake and an historic amount of rainfall from this event, any additional storage that would have been created in the lake would not have prevented the flooding

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