Nashville Flood

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 11:08am

Let's keep Nashville in our thoughts and prayers, and for those able to help, one way is to donate through the Red Cross....text REDCROSS to 90999 to give $10 to relief efforts.

"The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in damage occurred. It is the single largest disaster to hit Middle Tennessee since the Civil War. And yet…no one knows about it."
- from "We Are Nashville" article by Patton Fuqua, May 4, http://www.section303.com/we-are-nashville-4366

Flood coverage, Tennessean newspaper:
http://www.tennessean.com/section/NEWS0101
Flood's not funny, but sometimes folks need to laugh

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:24pm

It's a mess. My hometown, Clarksville, is just impassable. I am here for two weeks. It normally takes 45 minutes to get home from the airport, but we were in the car almost 3 hours. Luckily, there are two ways to get to my house because the main road is under about four feet of water.



This is a shopping center right in the heart of the older side of town. Everything was originally built around the river, so it's all under water.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:16pm

Holy Crap! Stay safe, jg2!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:30pm

I have several friends that live in Nashville.

Here's a video of the damage in the Opryland Hotel.
Link

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:12pm

You want to see sad?

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 6:08pm

I have a very good friend who lives on a bluff above the Cumberland River, near Pennington Bend, which is just north of Opryland.

At least, he used to live there. They were flooded out and finally rescued from the attic of their house after spending 6 hours up there. The family is safe, but he's lost everything - house and everything inside. I'm just heartsick about this.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 7:26pm

The water got up to the door of our family business, but didn't get in beyond wetting the carpet by the doors a little. We were lucky. There is a new Salvation Army just across the street that is a total loss. When they built it, they asked about flood insurance and the salesman told them there was absolutely no use because they weren't in a flood area. So many people lost everything. There are houses under water in areas where flood insurance is unheard of.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 10:10pm

That's terrible, jg2. I'm glad your family business is ok, but it's devastating to hear about these other people.