Massive Flooding in TN

[psychochild28]

The Nashville area is under a state of emergency due to massive flooding. One of my stagehands who works for the red cross got called during the load out to see if she could go help evacuate people.

At the time of typing this 5 confirmed deaths. There's a bunch of other videos. But i enjoy the fact that this house goes floating by on the interstate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gYhLKwSp4

[derf]

A buddy of mine took this photo on his way to arkansas

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs533.ash1/31258_10150156914525234_657300233_12163200_5398697 _n.jpg

[Cutty72]

People are dumb, why do you try to drive through that?

[derf]

People are dumb, why do you try to drive through that?

Because I gots me a pickem'up truck with big floaty tires and that lil part of the road floods when it rains and I always make it through and look the guy in front of me just went in the water he must be able to make it through too so I can just follow him and I will be alright and I can just float on my big floaty tires across the lake until I hit solid ground and can drive away with my bad self.

People make mistakes that seem like a good descision at the time but turn out to be really quite dumb. I can tell you because I am part of the I had a bad idea to drive through the lake club, and to this day I learned my lesson and I am scared of driving through any puddle of water.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v72/40/56/652142395/n652142395_87260_6263.jpg

[Cutty72]

I remember in the flooding back in 08 in Fargo, I saw a pickup driving through some water, all I could see was the top of the bumpers and up. Didn't think it was that deep until he came out of the water. It was lifted about 10" and riding on 37" tires! :lol:

[Full Throttle]

Ive been waiting for this damn storm to move east and hit Chattanooga. I almost didnt ride yesterday or today to work because of that damn storm and now its just been sitting there for 12 hours and has hardly moved at all. I want this storm to come and go. I like the rain sometimes but when its sitting there causing me to not want to ride that makes me mad. UGH damn storm

[psychochild28]

Yea I can't believe they are still trying to drive in it. They declared Davidson CO (nashville) a disaster area and are thinking of evacuating most of the county because they think the dam there is going to go soon.


Drewpy's backyard and front are flooded. I'm getting pics from his roomate

[marko138]

Yea I can't believe they are still trying to drive in it. They declared Davidson CO (nashville) a disaster area and are thinking of evacuating most of the county because they think the dam there is going to go soon.


Drewpy's backyard and front are flooded. I'm getting pics from his roomate
pillow.

[Mr Lefty]

I've rode through deeper... on my ZZR on the way to indy... :lol:


naw... it was only about 2' deep... but it was about a mile long... Yup.. I'm one of those dumbasses.

[Angee]

That "House" was a portable building from a church academy...Lighthouse, I think. My sister lives in Antioch where that was filmed and couldn't get home until the next day. That is more rain than the flood of 79...

[Rider]

Damn, I just rode through Nashville last Tuesday.

[HokieDNA01]

a lot of those people didn't drive through the water. They were stuck in bumper to bumper gridlock when the water rose. nothing you can do about that.

[NONE_too_SOFT]

a lot of those people didn't drive through the water. They were stuck in bumber to bumber gridlock when the water rose. nothing you can do about that.

yea, but a lot of them DID try to drive through that water. that scares me, these are people whom are licensed to drive and able to reproduce.

[azoomm]

yea, but a lot of them DID try to drive through that water. that scares me, these are people whom are licensed to drive and able to reproduce.

Right.

I love the new law enacted in Austin - if someone goes around the barriers when the water is too high they are responsible for any and all costs to save their butt. Though, it's ridiculous that it even needs to be a law.

[the chi]

Damn. Thats crazy. Reminds me of my trip up to the rally when I almost got trapped in Montgomery. I sat in the rain and watched at least 3 cars drive into rushing water in the road way and get stuck. Brilliant. I hope they were able to get out the folks that got trapped when the water rose.

[karl_1052]

Christian Slater was in town
http://media.sbs.com.au/films/upload_media/site_28_rand_65421325_hard_rain_maxed.jpg

[Angee]

There's still 2 people missing in Antioch that tried to "raft" across Mill Creek (with a third person who made it across) on tied together tubes. Sorry, but I think I'd have waited on help on my roof. It's nuts down there from what I see on the news and FB...I can't imagine actually being there! I was planning on having a yard sale to get rid of excess clothes, but I think I'm going to hang on to them for the Red Cross now.

[LeeNetworX]

People are dumb, why do you try to drive through that?

You answered your own question in the same sentence.

[MILK]

a lot of those people didn't drive through the water. They were stuck in bumper to bumper gridlock when the water rose. nothing you can do about that.

I wonder (just trying to picture myself in that position) if they tried to move their vehicles to get away from it? Or if the only option they saw was just to get out and abandon their car?

[psychochild28]

Damn. Thats crazy. Reminds me of my trip up to the rally when I almost got trapped in Montgomery. I sat in the rain and watched at least 3 cars drive into rushing water in the road way and get stuck. Brilliant. I hope they were able to get out the folks that got trapped when the water rose.

They had people sitting in cars for over 12 hours. There have been 11 deaths so far from the flooding. A lot of the bars downtown are flooded.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100503/NEWS01/100503043/1001/NEWS

[marko138]

They had people sitting in cars for over 12 hours. There have been 11 deaths so far from the flooding. A lot of the bars downtown are flooded.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100503/NEWS01/100503043/1001/NEWS
milk.

[psychochild28]

milk.

bread

[Rider]

bread

Ducketts

[psychochild28]

http://www.section303.com/we-are-nashville-4366


We Are Nashville
By Patten FuquaPublished: May 4, 2010

Allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website.

What I am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey.

If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but that’s no reason to be ignored.

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.

Does it really matter? Eventually, it will…as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. It’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isn’t a perception that we need it.

But let’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.

Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but you’ll be wrong.

Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. I’m still having trouble comprehending all of it.

And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, I’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, we’ll be discussing the new Predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.

Because we are Nashville.

[Smittie61984]

these are people whom are licensed to drive and able to reproduce.

They won't be reproducing for much longer.

[Cutty72]

http://www.section303.com/we-are-nashville-4366


We Are Nashville
By Patten FuquaPublished: May 4, 2010

Allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website.

What I am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey.

If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but that’s no reason to be ignored.

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.

Does it really matter? Eventually, it will…as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. It’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isn’t a perception that we need it.

But let’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.

Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but you’ll be wrong.

Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. I’m still having trouble comprehending all of it.

And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, I’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, we’ll be discussing the new Predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.

Because we are Nashville.

Same reason we have to sandbag every year in ND. We handle it ourselves and don't need the gov to come in and help, but since we save it every time, they won't give any $$ to help prevent it.

Hope this situation ends better.

[marko138]

http://www.section303.com/we-are-nashville-4366


we are nashville
by patten fuquapublished: May 4, 2010

allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website.

What i am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey.

If you live outside of nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the gulf of mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but that’s no reason to be ignored.

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.

Does it really matter? Eventually, it will…as i mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in american history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. It’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isn’t a perception that we need it.

But let’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “don’t play in the floodwater.” when you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.

Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but you’ll be wrong.

Parts of nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry mills and the opryland hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the interstate. We saw boats going down west end. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from lighthouse christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. I’m still having trouble comprehending all of it.

And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, i’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In october, we’ll be discussing the new predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.

Because we are nashville.
dvd.

[HokieDNA01]

Here is a photo of my friends Motorcycle after he got 4-5feet of water in his house. Water was over the roof of his car in the garage. VERY SAD!
http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs550.snc3/30094_1448840782236_1269712540_1312302_5108175_n.j pg

[HokieDNA01]

Their neighborhood...
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs315.snc3/28436_1458329503331_1386198669_31271359_3571810_n. jpg

[Rider]

Their neighborhood...
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs315.snc3/28436_1458329503331_1386198669_31271359_3571810_n. jpg

I'd be moving to higher ground.

[HokieDNA01]

I'd be moving to higher ground.

there are so many creeks, river etc in Nashville
There isn't "higher ground" in most areas. These iveer have never rose this much before...at least as long as we have record

[Cutty72]

Just curious, did they not try to sandbag or put up HESCO barriers or dike anything off to prevent this?
Or did they just wake up in the morning and "oh shit there's 3 feet of water in my house"?

Just asking, having dealt with flooding growing up, there is generally a little bit of warning, unless it is entirely flash floods from rains. :idk:

[HokieDNA01]

it was flash flooding. Nashville for the entire month of May usually only gets 5 inches of rain. We got about 15 inches in 2 days. I have been in Nashville for 8 years and never seen ANY flooding. These neighborhoods are 100's of yards away from the river. no one expected water to come up this high. They are now releaseing the damns which is making things worse.

http://www.wkrn.com/global/Category.asp?c=175880&clipId=4755212&topVideoCatNo=undefined&autoStart=true

[Hydrant]

it was flash flooding. Nashville for the entire month of May usually only gets 5 inches of rain. We got about 15 inches in 2 days. I have been in Nashville for 8 years and never seen ANY flooding. These neighborhoods are 100's of yards away from the river. no one expected water to come up this high. They are now releaseing the damns which is making things worse.

http://www.wkrn.com/global/Category.asp?c=175880&clipId=4755212&topVideoCatNo=undefined&autoStart=true



Damn that would be a tough call. Whats scary is that if they kept the water behind that damn, could that added water pressure cause problems to the damn structure itself, ie give out? That seems like a damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.

No pun intended.

Ah what the hell its Cinco de Mayo, pun away.

[z06boy]

Wow what a mess. I hate it for those people and hope I never have to deal with that.

[HokieDNA01]

I think our local weather man here in TN has more on his mind than just the weather. This is hilarious...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnklAMt-_c

[Cutty72]

Damn that would be a tough call. Whats scary is that if they kept the water behind that damn, could that added water pressure cause problems to the damn structure itself, ie give out? That seems like a damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.

No pun intended.

Ah what the hell its Cinco de Mayo, pun away.

We had the same issue last spring with the flooding. The water was damn near the top and threatening to wash out the sides of the damn, so they started releasing more water, even though the river was already about to crest higher than any record before!

Turned out ok in the end, and now they have learned to keep it at a lower level as much as possible.

[Smittie61984]

I think our local weather man here in TN has more on his mind than just the weather. This is hilarious...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnklAMt-_c

So Tennessee got literally fucked

[goof2]

So Tennessee got literally fucked

If they were a little more north or east it would even be balls deep in TN.

[Angee]

Just for the record, I was born and raised in Nashville (and spent 34 of my 38 years there). NOTHING like this flooding has EVER happened that we know of. The only flood I remember was in 79 and it was 5" of rain in 24 hours and Mill Creek ran it's bank over and flooded Antioch...that's it. There is no way anybody could have prepared for this. As much as I bitch about their inadequacies in other areas (like ice/snow), I cannot fault the city or state for any of this. It was just freak...


I WILL however, say that the Corps of Engineers need to get off their asses and fix the dams and design a better way to handle the lakes/rivers...that has been a battle for decades...

[goof2]

I WILL however, say that the Corps of Engineers need to get off their asses and fix the dams and design a better way to handle the lakes/rivers...that has been a battle for decades...

Instead of blaming the Corps of Engineers I would guess it has more to do with the government not appropriating any money to pay for the Corps of Engineers to take on those projects.

[azoomm]

Sounds like what happened not far from here a few years ago, 16inches of rain overnight. Tho here, it went OVER the spillway. Opening the dam is a good idea.

[psychochild28]

They said that the begining estimate for just the Opry Land hotel is $50 million and soundcheck which is an audio company/rehearsal hall/storage area is beginning there's at $10million. They had a ton of musician's gear that got ruined. Some of the lesser known artists lost older gear that they were trying to sell so they could retire.

My parent's came to visit for mother's day and they got here last night with a blazer FULL of donated cleanning supplies and what not. Plus donations from local churches. So we took all that to a distribution center and it was unreal all the damage and the water that's still around. I'm going in with a few ppl from work to volunteer next week with the clean up of the theatres and such.

[ontwo]

My bro said it was awful up there. Good job on helping out, psycho.

[psychochild28]

My bro said it was awful up there. Good job on helping out, psycho.

Yea it's still really bad. The water finally made it down past flood stage last night around 6pm. I have a few pics i'm trying to get from friends up there to post up here. There's a ton of video's on youtube of it. There's one that shows the Opry hotel from when there was about 2ft of water till it went up above 10ft. With come dude talking.

[Angee]

Instead of blaming the Corps of Engineers I would guess it has more to do with the government not appropriating any money to pay for the Corps of Engineers to take on those projects.

One of the news teams did an interview with the COE and they said the public lost interest. If I can find the article, I'll post it. I have been reading so much lately trying to keep up, I forget which site it was on.

[goof2]

One of the news teams did an interview with the COE and they said the public lost interest. If I can find the article, I'll post it. I have been reading so much lately trying to keep up, I forget which site it was on.

That wouldn't surprise me. The public loosing interest is the reason why a shocking amount of the infrastructure in this country is in need of work.

[HokieDNA01]

Here is a crazy video of the flash flooding in Nashville at a Pepboys store.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/amazing-video-flood-tears-through-doors-17305

I also drove by some houses being gutted today and then went over the river bridge that was level with those houses. The water was at least 30 feet BELOW the bridge now. The fact that it came up that high and was at least 5 feet deep in the houses is nuts.

[dReWpY]

We got another storm heading this way

[HokieDNA01]

We got another storm heading this way

Yup there is only one thing that will get me to go out in a raging storm like this. And thats beer!

[dReWpY]

i have not gotten any rain or anything here, just clouds

[psychochild28]

Supposed to rain all weekend....boo! Prolly will on sunday only that's my guess


But there is a threat of flash flooding till late sunday night early monday.