Flooding fears rise as saturated rivers swell; death toll at 19: Updates

LOUISVILLE, Ky. − A deadly storm system that slammed a swath of the nation with tornadoes and days of unrelenting rainfall continued to slide through the Southeast on Monday afternoon and evening.

The threat was not over, as “scattered severe storms are expected this afternoon across parts of northern Florida and southeastern Georgia to the eastern Carolinas,” the Storm Prediction Center warned in mid-afternoon update. Cities such as Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, remained in the line of fire.

Meanwhile, in states slammed by the train of storms over the last few days, such as Kentucky and Tennessee, crews pulled people from floodwaters and ordered evacuations, especially near bulging waterways…

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