Evacuations ordered over possible dam break from Isaac

August 30, 2012 - 5:00 pm | Category: National

As many as 60,000 people on the Louisiana-Mississippi border have been ordered to evacuate because a lake dam is threatening to collapse.

The dam in Mississippi’s Pike County has not breached yet, and officials are planning to breach it purposely to lessen the pressure on the structure. Nonetheless, water as high as 17 feet could flood the area of the dam gives way. And McComb, Mississippi mayor Whitney Rawlings believes that the chances of a break are about 50 percent.