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.
They just put a new video up specifically about Opryland and the 10 feet of water in the hotel @ http://www.wsmv.com/video/23435320/index.html
o.O
I also had to chuckle at myself a little because I was in such a rush to get this post up before heading out to the eye doctor that I missed a big mistake in the post. We’re northwest of Clarksville, not northeast.
o-o <--- that's the new glasses I need to go order tomorrow 😉
I’ve been so wrapped up in my own bubble for the past week, I had no clue about the flooding in that part of the country until this morning. Glad to hear you’re OK where you are!
RWA is still three months away, so I’m hoping the conference will be able to stay in Nashville and will go off without a hitch. Of course, I’ll be honest – I am a little worried now that I’ve seen footage/photos on how extensively the flooding as been. Holy moly!