Saturday, May 15, 2010

Hundred year flood

Two weeks ago we had some serious rain. Something along the lines of 14 inches in 12 hours. Everyone upstream and downstream got hit by a super long front producing the rain. The flooding was extensive.
Baby, the menagerie and I are fine. The creek behind our home is far down the hill from us. We were high and dry through the ordeal.
Below is a shot of an intersection in Clarksville. In this picture there is a McDonald's , Shoney's, Hooters, Harbor Freight and many other businesses under water.

Our friends took the opportunity to break in a new kayak down the middle of Riverside Drive. Sam let me use these pictures from her facebook page. Thanks Sam. You guys are crazy awesome!

Riverside Dr opened up this past Sunday the 9th. It was closed a whole week. We were 16 feet above flood stage. Nashville was 14 feet above flood stage. Right now there is a massive clean up effort going on here and in Nashville. Nashville's freeways were hit hard. Here's a link to a traffic cam clip from one of the worst days.

3 comments:

Bryan & Bobbie said...

I used to fish that river. I wonder what I could catch in there now...

Valli said...

I heard the paranas from the aquarium restaurant at Opry Mills survived. All the tanks broke and everything else died. Good thing the sharks aren't infesting the Cumberland.

deerhollow said...

wow - that seems unbelieveable. You do have cool friends!!