TIPTON COUNTY, Tenn. — Many people were spending the day cleaning up from all the rain that swept through Monday.
Tipton County was one of those areas where roads were covered by water.
Volunteer firefighters had to rescue people stranded in a car Monday night after it went off Lucado Road.
After the water level finally dropped, crews were able to get to work Tuesday making repairs.
Monday night’s storm dropped more than enough rain to wash out sections of the two-lane road Southeast of Atoka, Tennessee.
“Every time we get a hard rain it floods. Up to three feet deep anyway,” said Chuck Brown.
Brown said he lives on Lucado Road and said it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what’s causing the problem.
“Heavy rains overflow the creeks and floods the road,” Brown told WREG.
Tuesday there was plenty of evidence to show how high the water got on Lucado Road, even taking a bite out of one homeowner’s driveway.
Across southern Tipton County some woke up to an unexpected swimming pool in their yards.
Though Lucado Road is just a dirty mess now, it was very treacherous overnight.
Volunteers from Three Star Fire and Rescue pulled several people from a car after it ran off the road.
Brown watched the rescue but didn’t get too close.
“I was driving through here and the fire department was here getting somebody out. And I turned around and went back the other way,” he said.
Perhaps if a bright yellow warning sign had been standing instead of lying upside down in a ditch, the accident might not have happened at all.
“‘Turn Around, Don’t Drown” is a message people traveling the Tipton County road should live by,” he said.”They think they can make it. They don’t know how deep it is until it floods their car out. And then it’s too late.”