Erwin, Tennessee is a small town in Unicoi County that sits along the banks of the Nolichucky River. The city is about 120 miles away from Knoxville, 250 miles from Lexington, Kentucky and 50 ...

After a day of heavy rainfall in the Great Smoky Mountains, the Nolichucky River was rising at 2 feet per hour. Around 1.3 million gallons of water were pouring over the dam each second at 11 p.m ...