>These exact scenes are happening all around the world lately. We know they can't control world weather but local? Unbelievable videos. Several waves of slow-moving storms dumped record-breaking rains over parts of Middle Tennessee on Saturday, August 21, 2021, resulting in catastrophic flooding in which at least 22 people lost their lives and dozens remain missing. The worst impacted counties include Dickson, Hickman, Houston, and Humphreys. From 00:00 to 20:30 CDT on August 21, the town of McEwen in Humphreys County received 432.3 mm (17.02 inches) of rain1, breaking the state's all-time 24-hour rainfall of 345.44 mm (13.60 inches) set in Milan on September 13, 1982. The value is still preliminary. One of the worst-hit areas was Waverly (population 4 500), located just west of McEwen and about 120 km (75 miles) W of Nashville, where floodwaters gushed in at very high speed, leaving homes and buildings under 2 m (7 feet) of water. "Dozens of buildings in a low-income housing area known as Brookside appeared to have borne the brunt of the flash flood from Trace Creek," one of the residents told AP.2 "It was devastating: buildings were knocked down, half of them were destroyed. People were pulling out bodies of people who had drowned and didn’t make it out." The floods destroyed homes, roads, power poles, cellphone towers, and telephone lines, leaving the area difficult to reach and without communications. On Saturday morning, Houston, Humphreys, Dickson, and Hickman counties received about 20 to 25% of their yearly rainfall total, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.