FORECASTToday: High 85, 70 percent chance showers and stormsThursday: High 85, 80 percent showers and stormsFriday: High 87, 50 percent chance of thunderstormsSource: WRCB Channel 3 Meteorologist Paul Barys, National Weather Service
Lora Long began to worry as the water began rising, moving closer and closer to the new flooring and furniture in her restaurant, the Market Street Tavern.
Quick, heavy, afternoon rain created lakelike floodwaters along Market, Chestnut and Broad streets in downtown Chattanooga, including in front of Long’s business.
“The traffic going by would push the water up to the door,” said Long, co-owner of the tavern. “We tried to divert traffic because every little wave was pushing water up to the door. Some people were cooperative, but some people were just downright nasty about it.”
She and her son tried to divert drivers away from the intersection of Market and Eighth streets until the flooding went down.