An official said on Wednesday that a mother, father and child died on a tree during heavy rains and floods in Tennessi.
The three died when the saturated land collapsed in the Chatanogo suburb of East Ridge after midnight, said Amy Maxwell, spokesperson of Hamilton County Office of Emergency Management.
Maxwell said that there was also a search for a person passing through a flooded road in Chattanoga on Tuesday night, but had not been seen since then, Maxwell said.
The entire limit of damage is not yet known. County officials planned to visit the loss on Wednesday morning, Maxwell said.
Till Wednesday, rainy totals were piled up to more than half a foot in some parts of the Chatanogo metropolitan area, CBS affiliated WDEF Reported that flash floods were widely added.
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WDEF reported that the floods on Tuesday motivated dozens of rescue of people trapped in homes and marshy vehicles, including several drivers who were stuck on an interstate highway, as the storm increased. According to the station, officials at Catosa County – On the border in Georgia – also reported more than 100 withdrawal and dozens of rescue from two local apartment complexes due to weather.
In Hamilton County, which includes Chaatanogo, officials Shared a video And Pictures on social media It was shown that the first respondents rescued a family in the back water and dropped the flood roads in the raft to reach them. School in county were closed Wednesday.
The region was ready for excess rainfall and flood on Wednesday. Hamilton County Mayor Weston WAMP announced a local state emergency on Tuesday night. The residents were urged to take extreme care.
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for most of the middle Tennessy through Wednesday night, scattered flash flood warnings and the possibility of training storms scattered with heavy rainfalls such as tropical, especially on already saturated areas.
Fire department officials said that Chetanogo Fire Crew saved people trapped in vehicles and residents in their homes. Some parts of interstate 24 in the region were closed, but once it was bended again after flood waters.
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According to the office of Hamilton County Sheriff, Swiftwater Rescue teams saved the residents of three East Ridge houses from flood waters in flood waters. Sheriff Austin Garat said that the flood was more wider than before, given that it is usually concentrated in an area, Chattanooga Times Free Press Informed
He said, “This is extremely widespread. This made it difficult for us to try to help other people.” “No, I have never seen it to such an extent, it affects it widely in so many areas and the way it is.”