This play by play of the escalating floods from Helene in rural Tennessee is highly worth reading: a factory that stayed open—unlike other businesses and the local schools—resulted in multiple worker deaths, needlessly. The owners should be charged with manslaughter. (In my dictatorship fantasy, they would be.)
Surging floodwater and panicked prayers: How a workday at a Tennessee plastics factory turned deadly
An NBC News investigation and timeline reveals how events quickly and dramatically unfolded amid a "one-in-5,000-year flood."
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