Eastern Tennessee Residents Stranded as Flash Floods Destroy Homes, Roads
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — Emergency workers rescued stranded residents Sunday after a storm caused flash floods up to 20 feet deep that washed out homes and roads in eastern Tennessee.
Two campers were listed as missing Sunday, said Bill Brown, director of the Greeneville-Greene County Emergency Management Agency. No deaths or injuries were reported in Tennessee, but two people died in flash floods Saturday in eastern Kentucky, and one woman was missing.
Parts of western North Carolina also were damaged by flooding Saturday. The storm followed a series of floods in southern West Virginia and western Virginia, which have caused millions of dollars in damage and killed three people.
About 200 people were homeless in Tennessee, Brown said.
“We’ve been lucky,” he said. “We’ve got about 70 damaged roads and several homes that have washed away, but so far everyone has been OK.”
In Kentucky, authorities said the flooding caused millions of dollars in damage. The number of homes damaged is expected to exceed 1,000, said Chuck Bogart, operations officer at the Emergency Operations Center in Frankfort.
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