Tennessee Baptist DR units aid recovery from February floods
By Carolyn Tomlin
Contributing writer, B&R
JACKSON — February 2019 was one of the wettest Februaries on record in Tennessee. Torrential rains swelled the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers and all their tributaries to record flood levels.
Numerous homes and businesses in several counties near the rivers were flooded and underwater.
Flooding affected much of the state. In all, 58 counties in West, Middle and East Tennessee surveyed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency were over their per capita damage threshold in public damage, according to an article in The Jackson Sun on March 26. [Read more…]