At least nine people, including one child, died Sunday morning and in the community with flash flooding.
In Tennessee, the National Weather Service in Memphis issued a flash flood emergency Sunday afternoon after a leve in the Rives 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. Several regional fire departments deployed crew members to help. The Tipton County Fire Department said about 200 people need to be rescued.
The embankment is intended to block the Obion River, the main tributary of the Mississippi River. It is not clear who is responsible for maintaining the dike.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said in a press conference Sunday that Kentucky was particularly severely affected by rain, where at least eight people died. 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 after being swept during a flash flood in Hart County, the county's coroner Anthony Roberts said.
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 three others also died in the flood and two died in a motor vehicle accident.
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.
LD Mosley, a 70-year-old retired coal company electrician, just finished his shed when a block of dirt, rocks and trees lashed out on Saturday. The landslide emerged from the hill behind his house in Hindman, Kentucky, about 130 miles southeast of Lexington.
Mr. Mosley estimated that as many as 80 tons of earth covered his property.
“I'm so tempted now, I want to put my hands on it,” Mr. Mosley said.
Ky in Kentucky. In the neighborhood, Scott McReynolds lost power in his home, trapped inside due to water at the end of the driveway.
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 Hazard, about 14 miles southeast of the sea kypton, the Kentucky River peak is 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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