{"id":15222,"date":"2021-08-23T07:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=15222"},"modified":"2021-08-23T07:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:25:28","slug":"at-least-21-dead-in-flooding-in-us-state-of-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=15222","title":{"rendered":"At least 21 dead in flooding in US state of Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating floods in the southern US<br \/>\nstate of Tennessee have left at least 21 people dead and dozens missing,<br \/>\nlocal officials said Sunday in what they warned was a preliminary toll.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee was hit Saturday by what meteorologists called historic storms<br \/>\nand flooding, dumping 15 inches (38 centimeters) or more of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Rural roads, state highways and bridges were washed out and widespread<br \/>\npower outages affected thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty people died in the town of Waverly, in Humphreys County, Police<br \/>\nChief Grant Gillespie said in a news conference covered by NewsChannel 5<br \/>\nNashville.<\/p>\n<p>Humphreys County is about a 90-minute drive west of Nashville, the country<br \/>\nmusic center.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/12860\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating floods in the southern US state of Tennessee have left at least 21 people dead and dozens missing, local officials said Sunday in what they warned was a preliminary toll. Tennessee was hit Saturday by what meteorologists called historic storms and flooding, dumping 15 inches (38 centimeters) or more of rain. Rural roads, state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-17","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15224,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222\/revisions\/15224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}