Storms that caused 1-in-1,000 year flood event in Tennessee and Georgia move up Atlantic coast

A storm system caused a catastrophic, 1,000-year flood along the Tennessee-Georgia state line and moved up the Eastern Seaboard, prompting flood advisories from North Carolina to Massachusetts

Residents and crews in McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee, spent Friday cleaning up alongside the Toccoa River

The Tennessee Valley Authority was managing high water levels at three hydroelectric dams on the Ocoee River

Swift-water teams from both states rescued dozens of people before the flooding receded

Thursday morning: Rainfall totals of 10.28 and 11.19 inches recorded over 6- and 12-hour periods · Early August: A previous flood, categorized as a 1-in-500 year event, hit the same communities · Last week: McCaysville reopened its renovated police building · Friday: Storm system moved up the Eastern Seaboard, prompting flood advisories from North Carolina to Massachusetts · Friday: Residents and crews cleaned up alongside the Toccoa River; access to downtown restricted and curfew in effect · Friday: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency for four counties

10.28 inches rainfall · 11.19 inches rainfall · 1 in 1,000 flood probability · 56 age · 1,000 / fewer than 500 population