Massive Flooding in TN - Page 5

goof2 · 05-06-2010, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Angee

I WILL however, say that the Corps of Engineers need to get off their asses and fix the dams and design a better way to handle the lakes/rivers...that has been a battle for decades...

Instead of blaming the Corps of Engineers I would guess it has more to do with the government not appropriating any money to pay for the Corps of Engineers to take on those projects.

azoomm · 05-06-2010, 12:39 PM

Sounds like what happened not far from here a few years ago, 16inches of rain overnight. Tho here, it went OVER the spillway. Opening the dam is a good idea.

psychochild28 · 05-08-2010, 01:55 AM

They said that the begining estimate for just the Opry Land hotel is $50 million and soundcheck which is an audio company/rehearsal hall/storage area is beginning there's at $10million. They had a ton of musician's gear that got ruined. Some of the lesser known artists lost older gear that they were trying to sell so they could retire.

My parent's came to visit for mother's day and they got here last night with a blazer FULL of donated cleanning supplies and what not. Plus donations from local churches. So we took all that to a distribution center and it was unreal all the damage and the water that's still around. I'm going in with a few ppl from work to volunteer next week with the clean up of the theatres and such.

ontwo · 05-08-2010, 02:08 AM

My bro said it was awful up there. Good job on helping out, psycho.

psychochild28 · 05-08-2010, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ontwo

My bro said it was awful up there. Good job on helping out, psycho.

Yea it's still really bad. The water finally made it down past flood stage last night around 6pm. I have a few pics i'm trying to get from friends up there to post up here. There's a ton of video's on youtube of it. There's one that shows the Opry hotel from when there was about 2ft of water till it went up above 10ft. With come dude talking.

Angee · 05-08-2010, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by goof2

Instead of blaming the Corps of Engineers I would guess it has more to do with the government not appropriating any money to pay for the Corps of Engineers to take on those projects.

One of the news teams did an interview with the COE and they said the public lost interest. If I can find the article, I'll post it. I have been reading so much lately trying to keep up, I forget which site it was on.

goof2 · 05-09-2010, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Angee

One of the news teams did an interview with the COE and they said the public lost interest. If I can find the article, I'll post it. I have been reading so much lately trying to keep up, I forget which site it was on.

That wouldn't surprise me. The public loosing interest is the reason why a shocking amount of the infrastructure in this country is in need of work.

HokieDNA01 · 05-14-2010, 05:24 PM

Here is a crazy video of the flash flooding in Nashville at a Pepboys store.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/video...gh-doors-17305

I also drove by some houses being gutted today and then went over the river bridge that was level with those houses. The water was at least 30 feet BELOW the bridge now. The fact that it came up that high and was at least 5 feet deep in the houses is nuts.

dReWpY · 05-14-2010, 05:47 PM

We got another storm heading this way

HokieDNA01 · 05-14-2010, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by drewpy

We got another storm heading this way

Yup there is only one thing that will get me to go out in a raging storm like this. And thats beer!

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05-06-2010, 12:39 PM	#42
azoomm moderator chick Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hill Country TX Moto: Pasta Rockets Posts: 8,917	Sounds like what happened not far from here a few years ago, 16inches of rain overnight. Tho here, it went OVER the spillway. Opening the dam is a good idea.

05-08-2010, 01:55 AM	#43
psychochild28 Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: On a bus Moto: SV 650S Posts: 857	They said that the begining estimate for just the Opry Land hotel is $50 million and soundcheck which is an audio company/rehearsal hall/storage area is beginning there's at $10million. They had a ton of musician's gear that got ruined. Some of the lesser known artists lost older gear that they were trying to sell so they could retire. My parent's came to visit for mother's day and they got here last night with a blazer FULL of donated cleanning supplies and what not. Plus donations from local churches. So we took all that to a distribution center and it was unreal all the damage and the water that's still around. I'm going in with a few ppl from work to volunteer next week with the clean up of the theatres and such.