Tennessee woman dies while trying to save her son from high flood waters

A 39-year-old woman died in Tennessee while trying to save her son from high flood waters on Sunday morning, according to officials. The death of Mary Evelyn Nicole Manning-Kellione was among at least five reported during flooding in recent days in a region encompassing Tennessee and Kentucky. Manning-Kellione had reportedly seen her son get swept into a culvert – or drain – when she went in to rescue him. Her son was swept through the culvert to the other side of it, but Manning-Kellione became stuck and drowned, the sheriff’s office of Grainger county, Tennessee , said. “The son was able to surface at the other end and came to safety when he realized his mother was in the water,” the agency said in a statement. “Rescue personnel located the individual lodged inside the culvert.” A post on Facebook described how Manning-Kellione’s son realized only afterward that his mother had entered the water for him and had not emerged. “Mary is the tragic and perfect example of the absolute superhuman lengths a mother will go to for her children,” said the post, calling Manning-Kellione “a real-life super mom”. Manning-Kellione’s death happened after intense rain fell on Kentucky and Tennessee, and flash flood warnings for that area were issued. At least four people died in Kentucky. Three of the Kentucky fatalities occurred in Madison county, where the coroner said two of the deaths – a man and a woman – occurred at a residence in Richmond. …