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DevelopingDay 8

North Georgia flash-flood emergency

  1. Update 2 of 2LatestDay 84 days later

    Water returns, but ordinary life waits in McCaysville and Copperhill

    Four days after the flood, McCaysville still limited city water to essential toilet flushing. Copperhill’s separate system awaited testing clearance as homes and businesses faced a long cleanup.

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    Earliest sourceNational Weather Service

    What changed

    • McCaysville Church of God had handed out nearly two dozen pallets of bottled water since Friday. By Monday, November 9, the church itself—and many nearby homes—still had no running water, Pastor Mike Cole told FOX 5 Atlanta. Four calendar days after the flood, even those whose taps were working faced a severe limit: use city water only when necessary to flush toilets.

  2. Update 1 of 2Day 3

    River tops 1990 record as rescues continue in McCaysville and Copperhill

    The river crested just above its 1990 record, but the end of the rain did not end evacuations, water rescues or dangerous flooding along the Georgia–Tennessee border.

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    Earliest sourcefox5atlanta.com

    What we knew first

    • The river crested just above the record set in 1990, according to the National Weather Service account reported by CNN.

Who reported

Who reported

61 outlets · 147 sources · 3 videos

49 of 61 had reported by this moment

Who reported what

Points more than one outlet reported

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Timeline

Timeline

Day 8 · 2 reports

  1. First to report

  2. 2 days later

  3. A Copperhill flash flood emergency bulletin reported homes and businesses underwater and being evacuated. The Ocoee was at Major Flood Stage, then three feet below its all-time peak.

  4. The Copperhill warning was extended to 9 a.m. EST, with catastrophic flooding continuing.

  5. A Weather Service bulletin declared a flash flood emergency for McCaysville and extended its warning to 9 a.m. EST.

Who's involved

Who's involved

People

  • Michael EarleyCollege baseball head coach for Texas A&M

Organizations

  • Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agencystate-level emergency management government agency in Georgia, USA
  • National Weather ServiceU.S. forecasting agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • United States Geological Surveyscientific agency of the United States government

Places

  • Copperhill
  • McCaysville
  • Copperhill City Hall
  • McCaysville City Hall
Water returns, but ordinary life waits in McCaysville and Copperhill