The scene at Asbury Park at Caryville around 9:30 am Sunday morning.
Dangerously high waters rule this weekend with floating cars, rescues and evacuations.  This was the scene on Saturday night on School Street at Jacksboro.  The Jacksboro Fire Department and Campbell County Rural Fire Service teamed to rescue a family from their home.  

LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF) – It’s been a non-stop Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday for emergency personnel and highway and street departments. Members of the Campbell County Rural Fire Service, La Follette Rescue Squad, the fire departments of Caryville, Jacksboro and La Follette have been out all night along with those town’s street departments and the Campbell County Highway Department.

“It’s 20-feet deep up here,” said Tony Malone with the Campbell County Highway Department. Malone was relaying information at Ivydell back to Road Superintendent Ron Dilbeck over the county’s radio system Sunday morning. Flooding has been widespread across Campbell County, and it’s been the kind of rains that far more areas than the usual suspect flooding areas have dealt with high water.

Water Street Bridge on the Claiborne County side was completely washed out. Barricades are in the process of being placed there.

The photos tell the story from Stinking Creek to Sharp’s Circle and Loop Road in La Follette to West Street at Jacksboro and Elkins Road at Asbury Park. High water rules with floating cars, rescues and evacuations.

A washed out driveway at Cedar Creek.
Fincastle neighborhood.
The “creek on the creek” is overflowing Sunday morning at D.W. Baird Lane in the Stinking Creek Community.
Saturday night at Stinking Creek.
South Highway 25W
Saturday night at Caryville in the Mountain Road and Hollow Lane area is where the Caryville Fire Department teamed with the La Follette Rescue Squad for this rescue.
Elkins Road near Asbury Park.
This is the railroad bridge in Downtown Caryville.
This is the railroad bridge in Downtown Caryville.
Depot Street at Caryville is washed out.
West Street at Jacksboro.
A Sunday morning look at Hollow Lane at Caryville.

(WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 03/28/2021-10AM-PHOTOS COURTESY OF GEORGE BOLINGER, CRISSY FERGUSON, DANIEL LAWSON, WADE LAWSON, DEB MIKESELL, PAM WEBB & PAM WRIGHT)

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