Helping Where I Can User ID: 1157608 United States 05/05/2011 12:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NOT BREAKING__The Nashville Flood A Year Later The Nashville Flood, about year later. The great flood of early may 2010 hit home because of a friend of mine. Thirteen ;) 13 inches of rain in just a few hours hit the Cumberland valley causing massive flooding in the downtown and surrounding areas. Her home was next to a small feed stream that grew into a watery giant and flooded her bottom floor in about 3 feet of water. Quick thinkers they were they managed to move the important stuff, xbox, big screen etc out of harms way as the water rose but still lost some old photos and priceless personal artifacts. To make matters worse, her husbands job was in a mall that also flooded, losing money as well as their bottom floor. They had a submersible pump (which wasn't fast enough) so I was over their with a pool pump trying to get the water out of the carport which was backing into their first floor. [ link to www.flickr.com] Downtown wasn't much better. The flood waters consumed much of 2nd Ave and the Riverfront area. Surrounding areas were hit even worse. There were plenty of areas that were next to creeks that didn't have flood insurance due to the fact flooding hadn't occurred in 500+ years. The flood you probably never heard of in the press. [ link to www.newsweek.com] Quoting a poster from here [ link to www.606studios.com] "There's no drama. No fighting, no rioting, no people screaming into cameras. They're taking care of themselves. That's too boring for news coverage."NBC new coverage Flooding I-24 Near Bell road This can't really be compared to Hurricane Katrina in loss of life but unlike Katrina there was no warning, just rain and more rain with creeks that became rivers, and rivers that became monsters. To anyone that suffered through it, it's one year later and we can look back drier and more experienced. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1081381 United States 05/05/2011 01:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: NOT BREAKING__The Nashville Flood A Year Later |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1157608 United States 05/05/2011 10:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: NOT BREAKING__The Nashville Flood A Year Later Was no one in Nashville affected by the floods of early May 2010?
I realize the world won't end if I don't get thread hits but I'm just looking for people affected out there. Tell me your stories (if any) of those fateful days of the 500 year flood.
For me it was the challenge of removing roughly 70000 to 100000 (thirty to one hundred thousand) gallons of water from my friends bottom floor and parking area by whatever means necessary. Water pumps were sold out all over town. I learned much about water that day. After setting up a spare pool pump it was about fractions of an inch per hour to sanity (and sweet relief noting the water marks later on). |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 3364 United States 05/05/2011 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: NOT BREAKING__The Nashville Flood A Year Later
I'm from Maury county just south of you OP. We had it bad here too when the duck river swallowed Columbia. I noticed that there was no looting around here too. That is the exact reason that no one cared about it. Did you see highway 7 out by Santa Fe? There is still a 300 foot sinkhole in that road that will probably never get fixed. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1157608 United States 05/05/2011 11:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: NOT BREAKING__The Nashville Flood A Year Later I'm from Maury county just south of you OP. We had it bad here too when the duck river swallowed Columbia. I noticed that there was no looting around here too. That is the exact reason that no one cared about it. Did you see highway 7 out by Santa Fe? There is still a 300 foot sinkhole in that road that will probably never get fixed.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3364I didn't know you still had problems from this. As to the doom we seem to have actually had the opposite, neighbor helping neighbor, go figure? No looting, no press? Sad state of reality isn't it? for others that went through this! |