Nashville Under Water!!! (No56K)

Well I am not sure if some of you have even heard about this on the national news since it received little to no attention. But over the weekend Nashville received 28% of it's yearly average of rain in less than 48 hours. They said it was our 500-1000 year rain or whatever they call it. The Cumberland River located near downtown is usually around 20 feet, and rose to 50 feet from the flooding. Since the majority of the areas flooding were not in flood zones, many homes did not have flood insurance.

Skyscrapers flooded, the Titans football stadium flooded, and 1000s of homes were under water, and it has taken 20 lives so far. It will be months upon months before the city can fully repair the damages. I think one reason we have not received national attention is because the city has united together. There has been no looting, no other crimes, and no corruption...

Now for my pictures...The first few are of the high school I used to attend.

Sunday around 2pm




Monday around 2pm...as you can see the water rose drastically in 24 hours. The whole 1st floor had around 4-5 feet of water in it.

This is the parking lot, the school is to the right


Here is a video from a fried of the damage from a boat. Go to about min 5 for the school video
http://www.vimeo.com/11476658

Two separate entrances to our greenway system.



Homes about 1 mile from my house


Local river that is usually about 10 feet deep and maybe 20 yards wide. Now it is probably a square mile


Went around town on our bikes during lunch break...This is a very busy 4 lane road, now under water


Local Target and Kohls parking lot under water

These are NOT my pictures

The river is supposed to stop where the bridge lights begin







MSNBC did cover it some..As the title says... "Nashville Flooded and Forgotten"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677//vp/36927001#36927001

Wow that's crazy... Good thing your house in on a hill...

damn Eric, I saw this on the local news here in Toronto and was speechless

dam... this is the first time of me hearing this....

hope everything are aight with u... GB all who are in trouble...

that really sucks, hope the people without flood insurance don't lose everything

nyknick1015 said:

dam... this is the first time of me hearing this....

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Same here.

Insanity.. Is life really stalled out because of this? How do people get around, boats? That would be crazy.

I hope you and your family's things are okay.

best of luck to you. i only heard of something but didnt realize it was THAT bad. ill pray for you guys=)

Yeah most of the rescue's and traveling in certain areas had to be done by boat. For example my old high school could only be reached by boat. So they had to take the boats to the roof and then go in from there to get the important documents they needed from the 2nd floor

Water has gone down some here..but many areas will be under for another 1-2weeks. The worst part is that the water is obviously contaminated, so it is a really bad idea to get into it. Plus every county outside of Nashville has contaminated water supplies now

E news had a small feature on it earlier today, and actually walked around inside of my old high school to show the damage