Yes, Nashville & Opyland are afloat

2010 May 03

Bev(BB)Journals , , 2 Comments

I saw this tweet earlier by Wendy:

RT @avonbooks: RWA – Gaylord hotel update: they’re monitoring situation & will announce outcome as soon as they can http://bit.ly/dgNL6c

Technically, we’re in western Kentucky, just over the border slightly northwest from Clarkville, Tennessee, but we got a lot of rain ourselves over the weekend. Not nearly as much as central Tennessee, though. They got roughly 2 feet in 2 days. So, yeah, it’s a bad situation pretty much all around Nashville right now. In fact, I feel like we’re living in an island of calm since there are counties both to the east and west of us in Kentucky that have school closings due to flooding while our county didn’t. Our county is apparently on a ridge between rivers. Who knew.

The local station I watch out of Nashville is WSMV-TV (NBC) Channel 4 and they’ve been covering the situation pretty much non-stop since Friday night. So, go there if you want to see photo-slideshows or videos. The only one I was curious enough to find and link to was this one from I think Saturday during the early flash-flooding stage: Flooding Puts Cars, Trucks Underwater - because this was probably the most jaw-dropping thing I saw all weekend. Yes, that’s a building, portable, floating down an interstate. I-24 to be exact. I think it’s one of those portable school buildings.

But it definitely gives one an idea of just how bad things are because that’s how it started. And the river is still rising as of an hour or so ago.