Agree that the news is overboard, BUT...people die when dams break.

This is classified as a high hazard dam, meaning deaths are LIKELY if the dam breaks.

The actual event itself is nothing to laugh at. I understand that you're weren't condemning the authorities, just the reporters, but this is serious stuff. There is 10 vertical feet of water behind that dam not including the normal water level. You do not want to be downstream and see what happens.

There's nothing like seeing clothes twenty five feet up a tree stuck in the limbs (Camille 1969) and imagining that much water across an entire valley.

In response to this post by thankbud

Posted: 08/03/2018 at 1:27PM

Ground zero, Lynchburg: -- thankbud 08/03/2018 10:37AM

...they call themselves Lynchburgers ** -- chumley 08/03/2018 6:20PM

Agree that the news is overboard, BUT...people die when dams break. -- 48zip 08/03/2018 1:27PM

Cite your source about 10 vertical ft of water behind that dam? ** -- grill to chill 08/03/2018 1:50PM

I have the spreadsheet from the state (DCR), It has data -- 48zip 08/03/2018 1:57PM

Thanks :) ** -- grill to chill 08/03/2018 2:25PM

I don't make light of the situation. What is HIGHLY questionable is the way -- thankbud 08/03/2018 1:37PM

I just meant it's scary to see stuff that high in a tree. -- 48zip 08/03/2018 1:41PM

My best friend's family was at the heart of the Camille disaster, Massie's -- thankbud 08/03/2018 1:47PM

Never said that. I said it would to the folks immediately downstream. -- 48zip 08/03/2018 1:54PM

Not disgreeing, but these people have ample warning, where it was 1969, and -- thankbud 08/03/2018 2:11PM

My whole message was to not disregard the warning. -- 48zip 08/03/2018 3:01PM

Amen brother Bud! I grew up in Sandusky and those apartments & the area.. -- grill to chill 08/03/2018 12:35PM

Yeah, the Greenwood Appts. are a running joke. I saw on the news last night -- thankbud 08/03/2018 12:39PM

Sensationalism sells ** -- astrohokie 08/03/2018 12:04PM

I lived there when the Timberlake Dam broke and killed 2. -- Hokie1744 08/03/2018 11:37AM

One would have to be in a steep revine to receive 17' from what's left of -- thankbud 08/03/2018 11:44AM

Agreed. And sad to hear that. ** -- Hokie1744 08/03/2018 4:46PM

From Lynchburg, so I've been following, but have to share this: -- Techaholic 08/03/2018 11:24AM

Never, ever let the truth get in the way of a good story. ** -- Tafkam Hokie 08/03/2018 11:26AM

Yeah, just looked at the satellite shot of that area. -- Burruss Writer 08/03/2018 11:07AM

"Johnstown" flood, caused by the fact that hated Henry Frick wanted the -- HokieDan95 08/03/2018 10:59AM

Indeed, I must have had Jim on my mind. Thanks for the correction. ** -- thankbud 08/03/2018 11:06AM

Lower? Doesn't in drain to the James, where it then flows through town? -- 48zip 08/03/2018 10:48AM

Lower part of town, but James River is the lowest. ** -- thankbud 08/03/2018 10:53AM

So it will indeed flood into the river, and town, correct? ** -- 48zip 08/03/2018 11:26AM

The only area I would consider it would "flood" is the immediate area there -- thankbud 08/03/2018 11:37AM

Tru to a point. But remember, the depth of a break is higher -- 48zip 08/03/2018 12:06PM

But the river would spread it out, might be 17" at that time. -- `lag 08/03/2018 11:34AM

It’s amazing how much the media gets wrong. -- RoswellGAHokie 08/03/2018 10:41AM

Media is french for idiot. ** -- halesvb11 08/03/2018 11:52AM

Wasn't it local authorities who threw out the 17' part? ** -- Stork 08/03/2018 11:04AM

Yup. Looks like National Weather Service stated that. -- Stork 08/03/2018 11:23AM

But reporters jump to saying it is 17 feet of water in Lynchburg -- RTFC 08/03/2018 3:10PM

Agree that the news is overboard, BUT...people die when dams break.

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