Severe flooding in parts of middle Tennessee has left at least 22 people dead and dozens unaccounted for, local authorities said on Sunday.
The latest: Speaking from the White House Sunday evening, President Biden expressed his "deepest condolences for the sudden and tragic loss of life" due to the flash flooding.
- The White House has reached out to the community and stands ready to offer its support, the president added.
- In Waverly, Tennessee — the town hit hardest by the flooding — hundreds of homes were left uninhabitable, and the waters snapped power lines and "slabs of roadway peeled from the ground," the Tennessean reports.
- A search-and-rescue effort remains underway, with authorities conducting door-to-door checks in some of the most affected areas of Humphreys County, per the New York Times. Officials announced an 8 p.m. curfew in Waverly.
- "This is the most devastating disaster that we’ve every experienced in this area," Waverly Mayor Buddy Frazier told WKRN, per the Washington Post.
The big picture: The National Weather Service issued its most dire flood alert for the affected area on Saturday as the rain continued and creeks overflowed, declaring a "flash flood emergency."...
- The water from the Saturday's flooding has started to recede in some areas, per the Post.
- “Things are moving fast and we are finding people left and right,” Rob Edwards, the chief deputy of the Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office, said in an email to the New York Times on Sunday. Humphreys County is located about 72 miles west of Nashville.
- The city of McEwen "likely broke the all-time 24 hour rainfall record for