Flood

Several friends and family have been asking about our well-being as related to the recent floods in Nashville. Here's the story and a few photos. As most of you know, Nashville received 15 inches of rain in a 48 hour time period (Saturday and Sunday). We realized it was raining hard when a friend of ours called Saturday evening and asked if we were still coming to hang out due to the interstate being closed. We had no idea, so we turned on the news! Sure enough, the interstate was closed due to flash-flooding and more than 70 vehicles were trapped. As it unfolded from there, we kept getting word about more and more things/streets/buildings flooding.

This first picture is Saturday evening. We were trying to make a home-made pizza and ran out of flour (I know, what kind of wife am I?!). We drove literally 1/4 of a mile and it took 30+ minutes. This is our street.
The rest of these are from Sunday. Here you can see our swing set and the actual swings are under water. You can also see the top bar of a fence toward the center of the photo.


This picture shows water coming right up to the porch of another apartment. This is NOT our apartment, but is in our apartment complex.



Here is another shot of the playground. The top part you can still see are the monkey bars.


This picture is late Sunday afternoon/early evening. You can start to see the swings again... the water was starting to subside.


In all, we are fine. Our whole city is on a mandatory water conservation effort. Schools have been cancelled thus far and many, many homes are still under water. The damage is far more than we can begin to comprehend and it really seems surreal. Eric has been out making sandwiches for shelters and he's out today delivering water. We continue to help where we can, and stay out of the way where we can't. If you haven't already seen some of the pictures of downtown, or Opryland, I encourage you to visit http://www.wsmv.com/ for more information/photos/videos. You can also visit the Red Cross for information on how to help.