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Documentary maker hosts forum on landslides, floods
The Center for Cultural Preservation, which produced the award-winning film Come Hell or High Water, Remembering the Great Flood of 1916, will a forum at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, entitled Historic Floods and Landslides: What Have We Learned?
The forum will feature experts on landslides, floods and weather as well as generational elders whose families were impacted by floods over the past 108 years.
“The rain that Western North Carolina received in 1916 and in 2024 with Tropical Storm Helene was comparable,” says Rick Wooten, a scientist on the panel who worked for the North Carolina Geologic Survey for decades. “The difference was that we have so many more people living here today. And too many of them are living in places that are prone to flooding or landslides.”
The forum will take place at Bo Thomas Auditorium at BRCC. Registration is free but pre-registration is required to attend. To register visit saveculture.org and look under Announcements or call 828-692-8062 and leave a message.
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