'Imminent' Dam Failure Threatens Thousands In Puerto Rico
The National Weather Service warned locals to evacuate, but with most communications down, it remained unclear how many would heed the alerts.
Officials continued to urge tens of thousands of people living downstream from a precarious, slowly failing dam in northwestern Puerto Rico to evacuate Saturday. But the U.S. territory's severely compromised communications infrastructure meant it was not immediately clear how successful the warnings would be.
The National Weather Service that "dam operators continued to report the threat of a failure of the Guajataca Dam, potentially causing life-threatening flash flooding downstream."
