Rain/Storm ripped through area

A storm ripped through the local area dumping from five to ten inches of rain in areas of Lewis and surrounding counties.

More than 20 people were rescued in neighboring Maury County when just under 10 inches of rain fell in the southern portion of the county. About six inches fell in a short time period.

Lewis County Highway Commissioner Joyce Holt stated her crew began working early Sunday removing downed trees and baracading roads and bridges, mostly in the areas of West Fork, Dry Branch, Willard Pigg Road, Swan Creek and McCarthy Road.

TDOT crews also were out putting warning signs on many of the state highways in the area.

A lightning storm hit in the area Saturday afternoon knocking out the emergency communications repeater for Hohenwald and Lewis County. Hohenwald City Policemen communicated off the utility repeater, Hohenwald/Lewis County Firemen worked off car-to-car and Lewis County Sheriff Department used cell phones for communication. The repeater was back up and running around noon Sunday.

Another tropical storm, Sally, was to make landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi around 7 p.m. Tuesday as a Category 2 hurricane, less than three weeks after Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4, causing widespread flooding and damage in southwest Louisana.

Sally was one of five tropical cyclones in the Atlantic on Monday -- a phenomenon that's happened only once before, almost 50 years ago.