Community | May 02, 2010 | 12 comments

Tennessee Flood of 2010

source: http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=12412562

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Insane rain and flooding is destroying many homes and businesses in Nashville and surrounding cities. Interstates and side roads look more like rivers and neighborhoods look like lakes. Many people are being rescued by boat.
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12 comments // Tennessee Flood of 2010

  • masterzip
  • good_stuff
  • mykuh
  • bocky10
  • mykuh
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      mykuh  
    • bocky10:

      Response time has been exceptional. Over 600 boat rescues (multiple people on each boat) were accomplished on Sunday in Davidson County alone. Considering how many people's cars were stranded on I-24 and on other roads, I'd say 11 deaths state-wide is good compared to what it could have been. I don't know about in other parts of the state, of course. Nashville Electric Service was able to get the total from 41k without power down to 36k in a matter of a couple of hours, and down to 25k about an hour after that, and down to 13k a few hours after that. I happen to think that those numbers are exceptional, considering my family in Kentucky (their entire county, actually) went without power for 20 days in the ice storm last year. All power should be restored by today or tomorrow. Some areas are just not accessible, and even then they're still getting some of those areas back online. Shelters have been up since the first flooding on Saturday morning, and once some reach capacity they've been opening others just as fast. TEMA (Tennessee equivalent of FEMA) declared it a state of emergency state-wide on Saturday, and has been helping since it began.

      I signed up to volunteer, I'm hoping they contact me soon.

    • 2 years ago
  • bocky10
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      bocky10  
    • mykuh:

      Thanks for the reply. I'm glad the response has been good, and good for you for volunteering! I still can't believe the pictures of the flood damage! I live in eastern PA and as you probably know, we had several blizzards up here this past winter and a lot of power outages. I was fortunate in that all I had was a tired back from shoveling, but a lot of people had it much worse. Best of luck to you guys!

    • 2 years ago
  • mykuh
  • mykuh
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      mykuh  

    • Yep. I live in Nashville, and my back yard was a lake and my ceiling started leaking. Many of my friend's houses are under water, and many people were trapped where they were because the interstates and roads were raging rivers. It's not just Nashville and surrounding cities, it's most of Tennessee.

    • 2 years ago
  • crashbangnoises
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      crashbangnoises  

    • I live right in the middle of all this, it is crazy. Some places are destroyed while sitting right next to places that are 100% ok. The schools have been turned into shelters which leaves the time for students to return unknown. My wife is a teacher and she thinks that students may get an early summer.

    • 2 years ago
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