Scores of waterfront property owners in Mecklenburg County are slowly moving forward with government programs to acquire or elevate their homes almost four months after Tropical Storm Helene, and later Duke Energy, upended their lives.
Despite Charlotte being more than 100 miles away from the storm’s center, Helene dumped enough water into the Catawba River last September to overfill the chain of man-made lakes maintained by the utility company.
When Norman, the largest of these lakes, couldn’t hold any more excess water, Duke opened the floodgates on Cowan’s Ford Dam…