Embreeville, TN native provides a first-hand account of the Nolichucky rising and flooding on Friday, September 27, 2024.

Erwin is a small town in Unicoi County that sits along the banks of the Nolichucky River. The city is about 120 miles away from Knoxville.

Throughout my life, one thing has remained constant, the natural infrastructure of our region has depended on the water ways that make up the Holston, Watauga and Nolichucky River Valleys that we ...

The river gage at Embreeville still hadn’t peaked ... wide fields south of the river channel that had become part of the Nolichucky. The scene reminded Smith of flash floods that took more ...

EMBREEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Darrell Fender still looked shellshocked as he surveyed the free-flowing and still roiling Nolichucky River pass through where Taylor Bridge had spanned the river ...

The sound of chainsaws filled the air as volunteers — unsolicited and “unauthorized” — removed detritus from the deck of ...

The river became an irresistible force ... One hard-hit area lay south of the Nolichucky, stretching from Embreeville upriver to south Greene County downriver. On Saturday, a miles-long stretch ...

Douglas Dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons a second. The Nolichucky Dam withstood twice the water ...

Watch a Tennessee bridge collapse into the Nolichucky River on Saturday, when the river surged with floodwater caused by remnants of Hurricane Helene. After Helene made landfall in the Big Bend of ...