prone areas to stay alert and stay safe. rick leventhal is live in bowling spring lakes, north carolina. rick? trace, this was the main dam in boiling springs lake and completely gave way on saturday night despite the best efforts of town officials who tried to drain the water out patricia lake here 3 and a half feet they draped off through a spillway to try to reduce the pressure on the dam well before the storm but there was just too much rain. that lake empty along with many others in this maul town, roads washed out here, too. earlier we met a woman at another one of the washouts trying to get home for the first time. never oh my god. sunny daniels grew up here, she couldn t believe her eyes lake gone and is road is washed away. one cave in has a pickup truck in the middle of it.