More than 150 dead as communities begin recovery

A Tennessee man said he was still clinging on to hope that his dad would be found alive, four days after he went missing in Jonesborough, but those hopes were “starting to dwindle.”

“You’re feeling helpless and you’re not even the person missing, so you can only imagine how helpless they felt in their situation,” Matt Cloyd told NBC affiliate WBIR of Knoxville yesterday.

His father, Steve, is feared to have been swept away in the fast-moving Nolichucky River. His dog was found alive and his Jeep found half a mile away from his home.

“It’s like losing a loved one, but not knowing if you’ve actually gone,” Cloyd said. “I just wish we’d had more time. I just hope that somehow, some way, we find you. And if you are watching and you are out there, just know that we loved you.”