'You prepare for the worst, hope for the best'
HOPE MILLS — Sometime during his third night at the firehouse, Chief Chuck Hodges was trying to squeeze in a rare nap on the air mattress in his office, but his phone wouldn’t stop buzzing.Word was going around that the earthen dam on McLaughlin Lake in Hoke County was failing.Hodges, who knows the river routes in Hope Mills from his 30 years at the Fire Department, could see the path unfold in his mind.That lake dissolved into Rockfish Creek, and those […]
