Destroyed roads and the remains of houses: such traces left behind a large landslide, which took place in Tennessee at the weekend. Camera drone local fire Department captured on video the effects of the disaster.
The landslide struck the town of Morris chapel on Saturday after massive rains weakened the hillside area of the city. The road to Glendale road collapsed, while the slope began to slide down to the river Tennessee. Video with camera drone, launched by the fire Department Hardin County, demonstrates the destruction that the landslide left behind. Employees of the fire Department warn that the situation is unstable and the soil is still moving.
«Please stay away from this area.» — wrote the Department’s representatives on his official page on Facebook.
According to the head of the fire Department Hardin County and the Director of emergencies Melvin Martin, in the landslide affected not only two houses, where residents managed to evacuate, but about 100 meters of the road along the cliff. Officials from the Administration of the Tennessee valley were forced to open the floodgates of a dam Pickwick, resulting in crowded Tennessee river flooded 75 more objects.
According to captain Sam Evans, who lives in a ship on lake Pickwick, this is the largest flood that he’s seen all the time. Evans says that the slopes from the shore gradually destroyed.
The national weather service reports that until Thursday in the South of the flood-affected areas of possible showers that will exacerbate the situation in the regions. Meteorologists say the scale of the disaster and has called the flooding «historic.»
