Residents of Newport, Tennessee, have been ordered to evacuate the town “immediately” as heavy rainfall and flash flooding stemming from Hurricane Helene makes its way north.
Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis wrote his Facebook page just before 3 p.m. EST Friday that the Waterville Dam “HAS SUFFERED A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE” and ordered the “EVACUATION ALL OF DOWNTOWN NEWPORT IMMEDIATELY.”
Mathis posted about half an hour later that he was declaring a state of emergency for the county, which is located roughly 60 miles east of Knoxville.
Ok yeah I’m in JC. The Elizabethton hospital is next , 100% evacuated… can it be salvaged? Not my call. It’s horrible overall. Ballad Health has destroyed our overall health care (see US sanctioned largest monopoly) 29 counties TN//NC/KY/VA help me @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world.com you’re my only hope.
Ain’t it awful? 20yrs ago JCMC was a good hospital. Now it’s a bottom-tier infection nest.
I did a little work on BRMC and it’s really no better.