***HOLY CRAP NASHVILLE IS UNDERWATER!!!***

Wow... what a story and video- look at what happened to these people and the highway by their house. Unreal.

[link to www.wsmv.com]

HOLY F*CK!!!!

Now that is some road doom. Those people would have never made it if it had been dark.

Dang, I love these news people in this video ! They seem real, and some of the words they use are not heard on MSM ! Prayers for those affected, love.

Why is the national media ignoring the Mid-South flooding? A flood that is now being called a THOUSAND YEAR FLOOD? A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.

DROWN U HICK SHEEP BITCHES

FUKIN SHEEPS JUST NEED TO DIE

hey buddy fuck you and your ilk and all like you

Last Edited by Aint Scared on 05/04/2010 08:53 PM

i think the real reason is theres just too much earth change disasters happening this year, from earthquakes to volcano eruptions, snowstorms, tornados, floodings in ireland and elsewhere. It is just getting too much for a average joe to take in. The media would rather not broadcast much more of this, because it would make the public uneasy. Ofcourse there is going to be more natural disaster to come throuhout the year, and it will be hush hush too

[link to water.weather.gov]

Just want to pipe in here and thank Snark and others for the fine reporting updates. Far better than television. I could see and hear all the turmoil going on



Just want to mention to ain't scared that my spelling is just as bad BUT found firefox has a spell check. Now I spell as good as the next person..


You should read my early posts from five years ago. Second thought don't :>)=

ty free store but fire fox dont spell southern

I've been through the south. I know what you mean

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cumberlands down over a foot from crest [link to water.weather.gov]

But it's still far above the previous records! By a yard!

I was hoping it would go down faster than this.

Cumberland was down to 61.02 at 10:30 CST is back up to 61.39 in Clarksville

[link to water.weather.gov]

Last Edited by Aint Scared on 05/05/2010 01:05 AM

Excellent thread. Haven't heard...did Obamarama declare y'all a federal disaster area yet?

I have been watching news on every major channel and other than a passing remark this flood is being ignored. Why report on an event that killed 30 Americans and caused major damage to homes and businesses when they can spend all their time talking about what could have happened to new Yorkers if a car bomb had worked. US media is a joke. If they're not covering every move Obama makes they're talking other politics
for 90% of their show. Crap.

LOL

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it...

Neighborhoods sift through sludge, but strangers ease agony
Official aid scarce, but strangers ease agonizing process
By Jennifer Brooks and Harriet Vaughan • THE TENNESSEAN • May 5, 2010

In the flood-stricken neighborhoods of Nashville, the air is stifling hot, choked with the stench of mold and mildew and the fetid gunk that settled in carpets after rivers flowed back to their banks.



The houses are turned inside out, their muddy contents spread on the lawns to dry under the curious gaze of hundreds of onlookers who cruise through the disaster zone, gawking.

It's been just days since the skies opened up over Tennessee and unleashed the flood of the century, and the slow, painful cleanup has only just begun.

Allison Patton stood in her front yard Tuesday, clutching a small jewelry box and crying with relief that one more keepsake had been salvaged from the wreckage of her home.

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It was a pair of earrings, given to her by her husband, Bob. Bob Patton died in February, and his family had seen more than enough grief before the Harpeth River came crashing through their back door.

Even so, she put on a brave smile and went back to the cleanup.

"Everybody's in the same boat," she said. "It's not just us, it's everybody."

"We're lucky. Some people don't have any help," said her 15-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, waving to the front yard, where the entire ninth-grade football team from Christ Presbyterian Academy was cheerfully hauling mattresses and chairs and tables out onto the lawn. The players were joined by the school's two cheerleading squads, who also came out to help with the cleanup.

Like every other home along Beech Bend Road in Bellevue, Patton's yard was heaped with muddy piles of furniture, clothes, crockery and waterlogged photo albums. Already, there was so much mildew and muddy sludge in the house that volunteers needed a mask and gloves just to go inside.

Like many other neighborhoods, residents here have been largely on their own as they begin the cleanup. They've seen no one from the Red Cross or FEMA, although a few emergency officials made the rounds in late afternoon, offering advice on debris removal and urging them to throw away clothes that had been stewing in the contaminated water.

Most of the help they've had so far came from friends, family and a small army of total strangers.


Volunteers have fanned out in the stricken neighborhoods, offering the small kindnesses that can mean the world to someone who's about to hit rock bottom.

'This is what ministry is'
Bobby Perkins sat under the hot spring sun at his West Hamilton home, anguished and exhausted. He and his family had spent the entire morning shifting soggy, moldy belongings out of his home, and the sweat was pouring off him in the 80-degree heat.

Just as he was about to hang his head, a complete stranger walked up an offered him a cool drink of water. A spontaneous volunteer outreach from outside the North Nashville neighborhood offered water, food and a hand with the cleanup.


"We don't know what we're going to do. I don't know what we would do if these people didn't come down here to help us. No one else is," said Nicole Declouet, her voice choked with tears.

No one in the neighborhood has seen any official rescue agencies. In the days since the flood, the only ones to reach out to this neighborhood filled with elderly residents have been strangers.

"It means the world to us. It's our duty. We believe this is what ministry is," said pastor Albert Jones of The Church of the Living God.

Jones and two other church members have made close to 300 lunches. They went door-to-door Monday and Tuesday handing out food. They plan to make more throughout the week until the need is met, Jones said.

In the West Nashville enclave known as The Nations, neighbors have knit together for mutual aid — and to fend off the looters and predators preying on vulnerable flood victims.

"It's hard to believe someone could be that low-down," said Paul Bruckert, who learned Tuesday that looters had broken into his home on Delray Drive and stolen a bag of Harley riding gear he'd hidden in a closet. He and his Shih Tzu, Happy, rode out the flood in that house, when the water came bubbling up through the floor vents and rose so high that Happy went sailing around the house on a floating couch.


Now volunteers, including armed guards from the nearby prison, are scrutinizing strangers to the street and running off the hucksters who come to scoop up the scrap metal or offer to "help" with the cleanup for a price.

Unfamiliar, welcome faces
There are plenty of unfamiliar faces on the streets of The Nations these days, but most of them are welcome.

A church van pulled up and young women hopped out with baskets of fresh fruit, paper towels and bottled water to share. Metro Councilman Buddy Baker donated 150 hamburgers and 150 hot dogs, and local landlord Robert Wiseman donated the grill that cooked Monday dinner for the whole street. Tiffany Israel from the nonprofit Neighborhoods Resource Center patrolled the street, trying to find out who needs what.

"We desperately need volunteers," she said, ticking off her wish list. They need gloves, masks and cleaning supplies and volunteers strong enough to help lift heavy, waterlogged furniture and carpets. If people wanted to give a direct donation, residents could really use gift certificates to stores like Walmart, where they could begin replacing some of the essentials — things like clothes, underwear and cleaning products.


Despite the heat, the stench and a cleanup job so huge it seems almost impossible, most neighbors were smiling. JoAnna Lick walked up the street, triumphantly displaying two crucial items rescued from her home: her cat Lilly May and a bottle of white wine, still chilled from the refrigerator that had floated into her front room.

Neighbor Annette Cantrell looked around her street, at the volunteers and the piles of debris that marked the cleanup. The flood brought some good along with all its misery, she said.

"I didn't know all my neighbors before this happened," she said. "I know them all now."
[link to www.tennessean.com]

Last Edited by snark on 05/05/2010 07:17 AM

Want to second this. I'm in Southern Kentucky and we got floods, too. Oh, and I heard on the news this morning that the Ohio is flooding now, and parts of Frankfort are being evacuated.

This is epic flooding, and people are helping each other. I'm so proud to be from the mid-South. BUT, PEOPLE NEED HELP SO QUIT IGNORING THIS. Holy crap. There are more threads about Greece than this. I know GLP is not a strictly American board, but many posters here are Americans and might be affected by the flooding.

I'm a bit concerned about the Ohio flooding because I wonder if that will send more water south and into the the Cumberland.

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