They made some life-saving judgment calls, preemptively closing bridges and prepping communities for evacuation, but area ...

TVA’s ten large tributary reservoirs stored 404 billion gallons of water during ... the river stages at Lenoir City and ...

When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 ...

A church in the mountains of eastern Tennessee is rebuilding after Hurricane Helene's flood waters ripped away parts of the ...

A church in the mountains of eastern Tennessee is rebuilding after Hurricane Helene's flood waters ripped away parts of the ...

An estimated $406 million in damage was avoided during Hurricane Helene because of flood mitigation strategies, according to ...

Data shows that TVA’s flood mitigation strategies prevented approximately $406 million of potential damages; dams in the TVA system stored 404 billion gallons of water; enough to ... on the conditions ...

Two months of normal rainfall in just 3 days to the Tennessee River Watershed. The reservoir system and its ability to store water during floods led ... to 23 feet higher than the observed levels ...

"The Nolichucky Dam is a very robust ... Unicoi County was so extreme that it knocked out river gauges that would normally track rising water levels. TVA does not control flooding on the ...

Water flow over the Nolichucky Dam at the ... flood stage and is the highest flood level in Elizabethton since 1940. TVA’s Watauga Dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, Tn., ...

“We came back down through [this town called] Erwin, off where the Nolichucky River ran down, and I mean ... The power of the ...