At least nine people, including one child, died Sunday morning and in the community with flash flooding.
In northeast Tennessee, the National Weather Service in Memphis issued a flash flood emergency from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning after a large levee in the Swiss community failed, resulting in “rapid flooding” and surrounding areas there.
“Arrival at high altitude now,” the weather service warned on social media. Rives is located in northeast Memphis and has a population of about 300. Fire departments in several districts deployed crew members to help residents. The Tipton County Fire Department said about 200 people need to be rescued.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said in a press conference on Sunday that Kentucky has suffered a particularly hard hit, with at least eight people killed in the storm. He said officials expect death toll to rise.
He said there were more than 1,000 rescues and more than 300 roads blockades.
The governor said the state’s weather conditions remain dangerous.
He said that in addition to mountain torrents, the flood on the river bank will also be very large. The winds of 30 to 45 miles per hour on Sundays, combined with the wet ground, pulling up trees and knocking down limbs.
A snowstorm is expected to bring inches of snow on Tuesday night.
In Kentucky, a woman and her 7-year-old died in Bonnieville, an unincorporated person in Hart County, about 66 miles south of Louisville. Hart County Coroner Anthony Roberts said his mother’s vehicle was swept during the flash flooding.
When the road becomes impassable, Clay County coroner Jason Abner said Donald K. Abner, 72, of Manchester, Kentucky, said Nico Mr. Ersen got out of the car and was swept hundreds of feet.
Mr. Beshear said two men in Pike County and a woman in Washington County also died from the flood. Two others died in a car accident, one in Hart County and the other in Nelson County.
Mr. Beshear, a Democrat, thanked the National Weather Service meteorologists in amid the Trump administration’s efforts to cut federal workforce drastically.
“The National Weather Service is a key partner in our response to all these events,” the governor said. “We need a well-funded National Weather Service.”
In Georgia, a man was killed in Atlanta after sank in a house in a thunderstorm earlier Sunday, a captain at the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department told reporters.
More than 100 rescues were conducted in Virginia as of Sunday morning, said Lauren Opett, a spokesman for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
In western Kentucky, more than six inches of rain had been observed by Sunday morning, the National Weather Service said.
In KY. Kypton, Kentucky, an unincorporated community about 115 miles southeast of Lexington, Scott McReynolds lost power in his home due to water at the end of the driveway Trapped inside.
Mr. McReynolds, executive director of a nonprofit called the Housing Development Alliance, has participated in a statewide effort to remove vulnerable residents from floodplain and into former mine mines that have built new communities Provide flat land.
He has lived in the area since 1992 and said the recent flooding has been overwhelming.
“The flooding in 2021 was awful and incredible in 2022,” said Mr McReynolds. “Now we do it again.”
In the nearby town of Hazard, the Kentucky River seats at 30.5 feet, the highest since 1984.
Bailey Richards, Hazard’s downtown coordinator, said more than 40 businesses have flooded since the rains on Saturday, including a restaurant and fire and police departments.
“It’s much higher than expected,” Ms Richards said. “I don’t think most areas where flooding is likely to end up flooding.”
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