As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept working. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power went out that the plant shut down and sent workers home.

Federal, state and local officials have warned that the death total will rise in East Tennessee from flooding caused by Hurricane Helene.

Helene was not just generational, but millennial. The Nolichucky River watershed had more than a 5,000-year rainfall with Helene, TVA said.