Chattanoogans learned in spring 1917 that major floods were not a thing of the past and that the high-water havoc of 1867, ...

Since the 1930s, TVA's dams, the original New Deal mission of the utility, have prevented more than $9.7 billion of flood ...

The fast-moving floodwaters had made earlier rescue attempts by ambulance and boat impossible. Trees, trailers, buildings, ...