Mayday on May Day!

One of the headline news this past weekend, and even now, has been the flooding of Tennessee, Mississippi and parts of Kentucky, which has caused about 25 deaths and counting (I think two more bodies were just found as I am typing this). It started on Saturday, May 1 while I was out of town. I heard about everything from my parents as it was happening - the torrential, non-stop rain, which my mom described as "the heavens just completely opening up." lol Well the heavens dropped about 16-19 inches of rain in about 24 hours. On my way back on Sunday afternoon, I saw some of the devastation, but only the slightly affected areas as those were the streets that were drivable. Even that shocked me. What shocked me the most, however, was how 3 miles down from our house there was MAJOR flooding, where a portable classroom got detached from a school and was seen floating down the highway. Look below!

 
I live right off of Bell Rd.

Luckily and thankfully, except for a little water in our basement, our home was somehow okay, and our family was okay. Unfortunately, the basement in my aunt's home got completely flooded with about 10 inches of water. But it's nothing that my handyman dad can't fix (lol), which is what he did all day today. It's crazy though. So many businesses are shut down, so many people have been evacuated, Red Cross volunteers from everywhere are here as a state of emergency has been declared, we are facing possible clean water shortage as the city's only operational water treatment plant has been closed so we have been asked to conserve water, and many schools have been shut down among other things. The thing is, the city is preparing for more flooding as two of the largest rivers in the city of Nashville have been swelling and are over flooding levels. With news coverage on this devastation of Tennessee, Mississippi and parts of Kentucky on all day, I can't help but reminded of what I saw almost 5 years ago in Louisiana. Of course, we didn't have a hurricane and our damage is not as disastrous, but I still am reminded of it nonetheless, and can kinda relate to it as I have seen it with my own eyes. I just hope there are no more deaths and that all affected locations recover quickly...and that the rain expected on Friday is minimal.

Here are some photos of Nashville metropolitan area from today.
Nashville Flood Scenes