Rain, Rain, and more RAIN!!!!

A little rain gets your car dirty.......Rain for a Saturday afternoon cancels all the soccer and baseball games.......but rain, I mean RAIN for 48 hours totaling 13.6" causes flooding in Nashville and the surrounding areas. Breaking all kinds of records and causing unreal damage. I am feeling very fortunate that we are all okay and had no water damage. Our house is high enough on the hill that we are safe. A few of our neighbors had some flooding in their basements and the worst of it for us was our rain gutters couldn't handle the amount of rain in the water was washing away the bark in the flower beds. Church was canceled yesterday and school canceled today. Luckily we have about 5-7 days of sun and 80 degrees to help dry us out. Mother nature is a powerful thing!

This is the park across the street from our subdivision. Lane went over with some friends on Saturday and found a 10lb carp washed up on the walking trail. He released in into our new neighborhood lake.



YMCA parking lot w/water 6' deep. There are cars still there underwater.



Wal-Mart parking lot. This is 5 miles north or our house. The bumps in the water are the roof tops of cars.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/05/01/nashville.flooding/index.html?hpt=T1

This link is from CNN. It shows a mobile home floating down the freeway I-24 (about 8 miles east of out house).

http://uservideo.weather.com/video/Opry-Mills-Flooding-Nashville-T

This link shows Briley Prkway flooded. The Cumberland river over flowed and flooded the Opry Mills Mall and the Opry Land Hotel. They evacuated 1,500 people last night. For those of you that have been here to visit the river that the General Jackson runs on (behind the mall), also the same river that runs past the Titans football stadium is usually at 40-44 feet. Flood warning is 47 feet and last night it hit 50.5 feet. They haven't assessed the damage yet but the Mall, Opryland Hotel and The Grand Ol' Opry is in about 2-3 feet of water.