Tag: floodwaters
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Asheville mom watched as her 7-year-old son and parents were swept away by Helene’s floodwaters
For what seemed like an eternity, Megan Drye, her son and her parents clung to the roof of their family home as the rains driven by Hurricane Helene pelted Asheville and the floodwaters around them rose higher and higher. Then, suddenly, the house collapsed, tossing them all into the muddy, unrelenting water. Drye was the…
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As floodwaters engulfed a Tennessee hospital, panic set in for those stranded
Angel Mitchell was in knots Friday morning at the eastern Tennessee hospital where her 83-year-old mother had been admitted days earlier for pneumonia. While Mitchell and her brother visited their mother, who was undergoing tests at Unicoi County Hospital, she could hear urgent conversations among the nurses to evacuate the small facility in Erwin, nestled…
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Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant employees. Some are among the missing, dead.
Families began learning the grim news Monday that their loved ones were among the workers who did not survive when floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped them at a eastern Tennessee plastics factory. Family members, some of whom had gotten frantic video phone calls from their loved ones as the waters swelled, were learning the fate…