Heavy rain and flooding halt traffic on I-40 near Knoxville 

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Where's all the bad weather coming together at? For me personally, it's just going east after I pass Cedar Bluff, in between Cedar Bluff and Paper Mill. And it's a really aggressive. A lot of heavy rain, some wind, and I'm seeing lightning bolts and things. So it's pretty aggressive in this area. My wife said she saw the same thing. in Severeville about an hour ago, but it's cleared up there, so I don't know which way it's going, but I know I've got a good dose of it here. What city or town are you near? I'm over here in Greenville. Knoxville, I-40, Knoxville, going east on I-40. Coming up on Paper Mill Road, I don't know what number that is, but that's where we're located, and traffic going zero miles an hour. Stuff's probably coming east, so it's probably coming my way. I was just curious where you were. What's the call there? Call here's N4 IJL. This is Klo4, Bravo, Tango, Sierra, K4, BTS, Jerry, just south of Greenville. Okay. All right. Yeah, we're just kind of sitting, it's moving a little bit, maybe walking speed. That's better than sitting totally still. It was still. you know, five or ten minutes ago, just sitting still. And our visibility is about 200 feet. Yeah, well, just be careful out there, man. Sounds like a mess. That's one of the benefits of being retired. I don't have to be out there, I guess. I'm retired too, but I had to go get a rebate on some... product that I bought at Costco and waited a little bit late in the day. Well, the net ran a little bit longer than I wanted, but this is, I would call this aggressive rain. It's coming down like really, really forceful. I mean, there's some wind behind it pushing it, and it's rocking the Jeep back and forth a bit, so the wind is. It's a little bit concerning, but so far so good. A lot of same stuff going on there, except I'm not out in the rain, but I just heard a couple of thunder bangers out there, so I'm going to keep an eye out here. Heat advisory. Sometimes it's a good to be in a Jeep for this sort of stuff. You know, if I had to go through some water or something, I'm a little bit higher off the ground, and my wife's Honda Civic. When she had a Civic, she's got an SUV now, but when she had the Honda Civic. you had to watch out for water because it didn't have much ground clearance. I think I'm going to try to get off, well, I'm at Bridgewater exit, actually Walker Springs, so that's where I'm at exactly. That's exit 379 going east on 40. Oak Ridge, it is pouring down and there's minor street flooding. I'm hearing a lot of thunder. I just got off at Bridgewater and I'm going to go to the back roads. I'm sure they won't be as crowded as standing still traffic on I-40. The other end of your storms up this way between Oak Ridge and Clinton, so if you come in that way, it's raining. and then there's rain with a vengeance. And that's what I've just been through. It's cleared up a little bit as I go east. So maybe it was one of those wild things. Oh, I know what it was. It was when I got off to the expressway. It all cleared and traffic starting to move. Okay. All right, have a good one. Seven, three, guys. I just want to give you update on this side of the area. Thanks, Bill. Appreciate it. Yeah, if you think about it, we haven't had any.

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