Rock slides and flooding close damaged section of I-40 in Smoky . . . HARTFORD, Tenn (AP) — Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains with engineers expecting the road closed for at least two weeks The slide and flood happened Wednesday afternoon around mile marker 450 in Tennessee, just to the west of the state line with
Flooding and rock slides close heavily damaged I-40 section in Smoky . . . HARTFORD, Tenn (AP) — Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains The slide and flood happened Wednesday afternoon around mile marker 450 in Tennessee, just to the west of the state line with […]
Flooding and rock slides close heavily damaged I-40 section in Smoky . . . Crews continued to work Thursday to get the water and rock off the highway and had not released when they think the road could be reopened, the DOT said The flooded section is part of 12 miles (19 kilometers) of I-40 in North Carolina and Tennessee that was washed away or heavily damaged by flooding that roared through the Pigeon River gorge