4 dead in Tennessee flooding, authorities say
Torrential rains across Tennessee flooded homes and at least one church and left roads impassable, prompting dozens of people to be rescued in the Nashville area.
Authorities said four bodies were found Sunday in the flood’s aftermath.
Nashville received more than 7 inches of rain, the second-highest two-day rainfall total ever recorded, Mayor John Cooper said at a news conference Sunday.
Ebony Northern said a normally tame creek running through her Nashville apartment complex swiftly rose after heavy rain started late Saturday night. Within an hour or so, she could see some first-floor units in other parts of the complex being flooded.
She said people moved to the second floor and she also heard calls for boats come in over the fire department scanner.
She said the American Red Cross arrived to assist her neighbors.
At least one church canceled in-person Palm Sunday services. The New Tribe Church in Mt. Juliet said on Facebook that kneedeep water flooded the building, broke the glass in its front entrance and sent chairs through a hallway.
Metropolitan Nashville police Chief John Drake said three bodies were found after Seven Mile Creek flooded. The body of a 70-year-old man whose car was submerged in the creek was found behind a store, and the bodies of a 46-yearold woman and a 64-yearold man were found in a wooded area near a homeless camp.
Drake said a 65-year-old man’s body was found on a golf course. Police said on Twitter earlier it’s believed the man tried to get out of a car that ran off a road into a culvert before being swept away by high water.