The photos look disastrous.
The Tennessee River is full to the brim after several days of heavy rains, and water is lapping up over the bases of the cement posts containing electrical outlets below the steps along Ross's Landing.
Construction crews have been working for months at a 1,000-foot-long section of the site to drive steel plates into the riverbank to prevent the powerful Tennessee River from washing away the soil from beneath the concrete steps. But now water fills some of the concrete forms that will eventually become seats along the river's edge.
The original $120 million worth of construction at the site lasted for less than a decade before contractors had to be called in to rebuild things.
That project was supposed to be finished in May, in time for the Riverbend music festival, but it is still not finished, after more structural problems were uncovered this fall.
But Chattanooga Public Works Administrator Lee Norris says not to worry. Despite the heavy rains - and what it looks like in the photos - there was no damage to the construction site.
There is no power to the outlets, and once the water level drops a bit, they'll be washed out and ready for use, he said Friday.
Chattanooga taxpayers are paying approximately $9.5 million for the repairs. Current completion date for the project is January, Norris said.