Jenn Commons of East Tennessee tried to stay strong for her children while Helene wreaked havoc on their community, while not knowing whether her husband, a police offer, would make it back home.

Douglas Dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons a second. The Nolichucky Dam withstood twice the water flow of Niagara Falls.

Workers inside a plastics factory in Tennessee say they narrowly escaped after flooding from Hurricane Helene. The raging rainwaters swept 11 people away Friday.

Northeast Tennessee residents picked their way through storm damage on Wednesday, October 2, days after Helene wreaked havoc on the region.Xira told Storyful she filmed this footage of broken tree limbs and mud-filled debri on Hale Rd in Newport,