As floodwaters ripped through Tennessee, patients and staff members at a hospital were left stranded on a roof as floodwaters surrounded the medical center.
More than 50 people were left stranded on the roof of Unicoi County Hospital as floodwaters raged around the facility.
The patients and personnel at the hospital have since been rescued, according to Senator Bill Hagerty.
Sen. Hagerty wrote in a post on X, Everyone has been rescued safely from the roof of Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin. More trouble is on the horizon for East Tennessee communities. Please stay safe, and thank you for your prayers!
WJHL reported the patients and personnel were airlifted off the roof by the Highlands Emergency Air Rescue & Transport (HEART) helicopter team, which worked alongside the Tennessee National Guard.
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Per ABC News:
At least 54 people were trapped on the roof of a hospital in Tennessee on Friday after floodwaters due to Hurricane Helene quickly surrounded the medical center.
Everyone was rescued safely, Sen. Bill Hagerty said in a statement.
Unicoi County Hospital located in the northeastern part of the state on the border with North Carolina took on so much flooding that those inside could no longer be safely evacuated and had to relocate to the roof.
In addition to the people trapped on the roof, seven people were in rescue boats. The National Guard and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) are currently engaged in a dangerous rescue operation, according to Ballad Health, a health care company that runs a chain of hospitals.
Poster Comment:
I live at the other end of the state. It has been raining here for the past 24 hours. Rain is forecasted through Tuesday.
I want to move to a rural area in East Tennessee where a group of people can grow our own food while forming a survival network.
I expect Nationwide Food Riots in 2025.
#1: Horse To: All (#0)
Horse posted on 2024-09-27 20:45:37 Reply Private Reply
#2: Pigpen To: Horse (#0)
Hence the unusual path on this one in particular.
Pigpen posted on 2024-09-28 09:08:49 Reply Private Reply
#3: ghostrider To: Horse (#0)
Who will notice it for the civil war?
ghostrider posted on 2024-09-28 09:15:21 Reply Private Reply
#4: Horse To: Pigpen (#2)
Horse posted on 2024-09-28 10:18:51 Reply Private Reply
#5: Horse To: ghostrider (#3)
Horse posted on 2024-09-28 10:22:22 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#5)
How do you think this will affect NASA's new Artemis project? ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2024-09-28 14:18:00 Reply Private Reply
#7: BTP Holdings To: ghostrider (#3)
If the food trucks ever stop running into NYC, the darkies will fan out looking for food, as far as their gasoline will take them. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2024-09-28 14:21:24 Reply Private Reply
#8: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#4)
What about when the Twin Towers went down on 9-11-2001? They were both loaded with asbestos which was never removed, just abated (covered up). All that crap went up into the atmosphere.
Sunspots do more to affect the weather and volcanic activity on Earth. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2024-09-28 14:27:24 Reply Private Reply
#9: ghostrider To: Horse (#5)
Only have to the first Wednesday of November for all that to happen.
ghostrider posted on 2024-09-28 16:28:51 Reply Private Reply
#10: BTP Holdings To: ghostrider (#9)
And Glenn Youngkin of Virginia has pulled the plug on Dominion voting machines. All votes in Virginia will be by paper ballot.
Needless to say that Merrick Garland's Department of Justice has sued Virginia for resurrecting Jim Crow laws, implying black voters do not possess valid state driver licenses or state issued I.D.s. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2024-09-28 17:03:39 Reply Private Reply
#11: Horse To: ghostrider (#9)
Horse posted on 2024-09-29 05:10:01 Reply Private Reply
#12: Horse To: BTP Holdings (#8)
A volcano created "1816 year without a summer." It has happened before and will happen again.
Horse posted on 2024-09-29 05:17:37 Reply Private Reply
#13: Horse To: BTP Holdings (#6)
Horse posted on 2024-09-29 05:20:52 Reply Private Reply
#14: ghostrider To: Horse (#11)
ghostrider posted on 2024-09-29 09:28:52 Reply Private Reply
#15: Esso To: ghostrider, 4um (#14)
Yep. (Edit) If Kumswalla is selected, it's going to be the 'Summer of Love' riots on steroids. If Trump survives until 5Nov2024, which I doubt, and they let him "win," there won't be anything left of the country by the 20Jan2025 inauguration.
Esso posted on 2024-09-29 10:54:58 Reply Private Reply
#16: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#11)
Woodrow Wilson on his death bed regretted the passing of the Federal Reserve Act.
China and Brazil have been selling their short-term U.S. debt into the secondary markets. So far, the FED has been able to buy them up. If they ever miss a buy all those chickens will come home to roost. Inflation might be as bad as in Weimar Germany in the 1920s when you needed a wheelbarrow full of German Marks to buy a loaf of bread. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2024-09-29 10:55:50 Reply Private Reply
#17: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#12)
Was that when Krakatoa blew up in the south Pacific? I hear it has been on the resurgence. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2024-09-29 10:58:41 Reply Private Reply
#18: Horse To: ghostrider (#14)
Horse posted on 2024-09-29 11:10:23 Reply Private Reply
#19: The_Rock To: Horse, ghostrider (#18)
The_Rock posted on 2024-09-29 11:47:40 Reply Private Reply
#20: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#13)
Even with the FED's ability to create money out of thin air? Remember that ability goes to infinity.
If we were in Star Trek world, the Ferengi money is gold pressed Latinum. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2024-09-29 13:32:20 Reply Private Reply
#21: Pigpen To: Horse (#4)
The lingering, the rain, the Lithium mine.
Same as Lahaina except not DEWS, this.
Pigpen posted on 2024-10-02 08:59:51 Reply Private Reply
#22: Horse To: Pigpen (#21)
Horse posted on 2024-10-02 09:24:59 Reply Private Reply
#23: Pigpen To: Horse (#22)
The lithium mine was at all but ground zero.
How convenient. They even got a head start on washing the surface away.
Pigpen posted on 2024-10-02 09:29:17 Reply Private Reply
#24: Pigpen To: Horse (#22)
Remember, they're "proving" their climate- change agenda.
That's what the next lockdowns are going to largely be predicted upon.
Pigpen posted on 2024-10-02 09:33:13 Reply Private Reply
#25: Horse To: Pigpen (#24)
Horse posted on 2024-10-02 12:37:31 Reply Private Reply
#26: Pigpen To: Horse (#25)
Pigpen posted on 2024-10-04 08:10:50 Reply Private Reply
#27: Horse To: Pigpen (#24)
Horse posted on 2024-10-04 08:23:17 Reply Private Reply
#28: Pigpen To: Horse (#27)
I hear ya on the MM, but clearly we're not experiencing similar there yet.
Pigpen posted on 2024-10-05 08:49:11 Reply Private Reply
#29: Dakmar To: Pigpen (#24)
Using our tax dollars to destroy stuff so they can justify raising taxes.
Dakmar posted on 2024-10-05 10:04:05 Reply Private Reply