Low levels of water in the Rockport reservoir in Oakley, Utah, last month.Credit…Lindsay D’Addato for The New York Times Credit…Source: NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information transcript Survivor of Deadly Flooding in Tennessee Describes Destruction Waverly, Tenn., experienced deadly flooding and destruction that killed at least 18 people. A survivor of the disaster recalled how she escaped. We just about didn’t make it out. We just about floated back, but as we went, as we was driving out, we could see these people on their porches. And I think in my mind that they thought they were safe, that the water was not going to get that high. But from what I’ve heard, it gushed at them, and we lost. Miss Mary. She drowned in the process. She was our hero. She saved us. Video player loading “We didn’t realize they were not flood victims,” Chief Gillespie said of […]