Disaster: 21 Dead In Flooding In US State Of Tennessee - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
August 23, 2021
It was reported that Tennessee was hit Saturday by what meteorologists called historic storms and flooding, dumping 15 inches or more of rain. Rural roads, state highways and bridges were washed out and widespread power outages affected thousands of people.
Police Chief Grant Gillespie in a news conference said twenty people died in the town of Waverly, in Humphreys County. Humphreys County is about a 90-minute drive west of Nashville, the country music center.
Gillespie told journalists that the other death was in a rural area elsewhere in the county.
Local officials in Waverly likened the unusually intense storm to a hurricane or a tornado, and said water rose so quickly that some people were unable to escape.