The Tennessee Valley Authority held a press conference Sunday afternoon to update the public on the rainfall that many have had to deal with over the past weekend. Senior manager of the TVA River Forecast Center Tom Barnett says the rainfall delivered more than initially anticipated. “We were expecting some rainfall. We’ve been tracking if for several days but we got it where we didn’t expect it, at least more than what we expected around the Knoxville area down to Chattanooga,” said Barnett. Barnett said the forecast center was originally expecting 2 to 2-and-a-half inches, but their estimated rainfall thus far has been closer to 4 to 5-and-a-half inches. To manage the rainfall, TVA says they’ve reduced their releases from their tributary dams upstream. TVA also says some reservoirs near Fort Loudon and Chickamauga have accumulated so much water that whey will begin spilling water in a controlled way. Barnett says they’ve seen a lot of localized flooding from streams and creeks and they’re monitoring the situation.