This isn’t about just fixing an eyesore. Instead, residents living on the other side of the Winchester Lake Dam consider this a matter of life and death.  “Too late is when that dam breaks and the tidal wave comes down the spillway,” said Tim Throndson, whose home in North Raleigh sits only a few hundred feet from that spillway. “Water can come across the spillway really quickly, smashing into living rooms and smashing into foundations.    Read the article………………………..