In East Tennessee, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Johnson, Sevier, Unicoi and Washington counties were the worst hit.

Helene was not just generational, but millennial. The Nolichucky River watershed had more than a 5,000-year rainfall with Helene, TVA said.

CARROLL COUNTY, Tenn.–West Carrol High School’s  Future Farmers of America and Beta Club, along with other high school clubs team up to collect resources for flooding victims in east Tennessee. “We have a lot,

How are some TSSAA high school football teams in East Tennessee's hardest hit communities dealing with the aftermath from Hurricane Helene?

TVA's system of dams along the Tennessee River and its tributaries has been tested by record flooding from Hurricane Helene, which drenched Western North Carolina and East Tennessee as a tropical storm , washing out interstate lanes and trapping residents as small streams in the Great Smoky Mountains suddenly became raging rivers.