Recent heavy rain is helping a Tennessee Tech University study of sinkhole flooding.
Earth scientists at the school say they hope to get valuable data, especially eyewitness accounts, from flooding this month.
According to the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, the study is seeking depth and width of the flooding, how long it took the sinkhole to drain and other information.
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