Jimmy Erwin, the director of emergency management in Unicoi County, Tenn., fought back tears at a news conference as he said there had been some deaths in the storm.
Many residents are without water or power, and he said it could be a week before the electricity returns for some. The county also lost its water treatment plant.
Cody Scott, a Unicoi County commissioner, said he had never seen flooding in the county this bad. His brother had checked on the family's farm on Friday afternoon and been shaken by what he saw.
Scenes of devastation abounded throughout the hilly, green Appalachian county of 17,000, particularly in and around Erwin, where a baptist church was surrounded by rubble.
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