Massive Flooding in TN

[HokieDNA01]

Originally Posted by Rider

I'd be moving to higher ground.

there are so many creeks, river etc in Nashville
There isn't "higher ground" in most areas. These iveer have never rose this much before...at least as long as we have record

[Cutty72]

Just curious, did they not try to sandbag or put up HESCO barriers or dike anything off to prevent this?
Or did they just wake up in the morning and "oh shit there's 3 feet of water in my house"?

Just asking, having dealt with flooding growing up, there is generally a little bit of warning, unless it is entirely flash floods from rains.

[HokieDNA01]

it was flash flooding. Nashville for the entire month of May usually only gets 5 inches of rain. We got about 15 inches in 2 days. I have been in Nashville for 8 years and never seen ANY flooding. These neighborhoods are 100's of yards away from the river. no one expected water to come up this high. They are now releaseing the damns which is making things worse.

http://www.wkrn.com/global/Category....autoStart=true

[Hydrant]

Originally Posted by HokieDNA01

it was flash flooding. Nashville for the entire month of May usually only gets 5 inches of rain. We got about 15 inches in 2 days. I have been in Nashville for 8 years and never seen ANY flooding. These neighborhoods are 100's of yards away from the river. no one expected water to come up this high. They are now releaseing the damns which is making things worse.

http://www.wkrn.com/global/Category....autoStart=true

Damn that would be a tough call. Whats scary is that if they kept the water behind that damn, could that added water pressure cause problems to the damn structure itself, ie give out? That seems like a damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.

No pun intended.

Ah what the hell its Cinco de Mayo, pun away.

[z06boy]

Wow what a mess. I hate it for those people and hope I never have to deal with that.

[HokieDNA01]

I think our local weather man here in TN has more on his mind than just the weather. This is hilarious...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnklAMt-_c

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by Hydrant

Damn that would be a tough call. Whats scary is that if they kept the water behind that damn, could that added water pressure cause problems to the damn structure itself, ie give out? That seems like a damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.

No pun intended.

Ah what the hell its Cinco de Mayo, pun away.

We had the same issue last spring with the flooding. The water was damn near the top and threatening to wash out the sides of the damn, so they started releasing more water, even though the river was already about to crest higher than any record before!

Turned out ok in the end, and now they have learned to keep it at a lower level as much as possible.

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by HokieDNA01

I think our local weather man here in TN has more on his mind than just the weather. This is hilarious...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnklAMt-_c

So Tennessee got literally fucked

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

So Tennessee got literally fucked

If they were a little more north or east it would even be balls deep in TN.

[Angee]

Just for the record, I was born and raised in Nashville (and spent 34 of my 38 years there). NOTHING like this flooding has EVER happened that we know of. The only flood I remember was in 79 and it was 5" of rain in 24 hours and Mill Creek ran it's bank over and flooded Antioch...that's it. There is no way anybody could have prepared for this. As much as I bitch about their inadequacies in other areas (like ice/snow), I cannot fault the city or state for any of this. It was just freak...


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...