Flood waters sweep through area
Published 8:42 am Monday, December 31, 2018
Star Photo/Delaney Scalf Flood waters start to reach some homes between Rittertown Road and Highway 19E in Hampton on Friday evening.
Star Photo/Delaney Scalf A pickup ruck with trailer drives through a flooded George Brown Road just off Swimming Pool Road in Hampton.
Star Photo/Delaney Scalf Riverbottom Road in Valley Forge was impassable because flood waters Friday evening.
Star Photo/Delaney Scalf Parts of Swimming Pool Road in Hampton was covered with flood waters.
Star Photo/Delaney Scalf Flood waters were trying to come up on the bridge on Hershel Julian Road in Roan Mountain.
Star Photo/Delaney Scalf Fields are flooded off of Bear Cage Road in Roan Mountain.
Numerous roads were closed and some Carter County residents had to evacuate their homes as rain brought flooding to the area Friday.
Carter County Emergency Management Director Gary Smith said that the waters were beginning to recede at roughly 4:45 p.m. yesterday afternoon.
Some of the areas affected were Hampton, Roan Mountain and Valley Forge.
Smith also said that constables and neighbors were helping people get out of homes that were being surrounded by the flood waters. See more pictures on page 2A.
