How are the Tennessee folks?

[HeathBar]

I know we have several members in Tennessee that experienced a full weekend of rain, myself included. Is everyone ok? I know Memephis was hit hard and a lot of middle Tennessee.

[thescot]

I don't live there, but my brother and sister are in Nashville, and they report that there are houses floating down the interstate--literallly.

http://www.wsmv.com/weather/23328754....html?taf=nash
http://blog.al.com/scenesource/2010/05/post_50.html

check out the film footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w60JNXnqbbc
http://www.examiner.com/x-12837-US-H...-photos-videos

[Eleazar]

There are areas that were hit worse than others.

We are fine. We have friends that had to evacuate though.

[HeathBar]

Glad everyone is ok. The house floating down the interstate was a portable classroom for a nearby school. Funny thing was that I had passed that part of the interstate two hours earlier.

[Woot22]

My house isn't that far from the Cumberland but my side of Clarksville near the Fort wasn't hit that bad apparently. I'm not in TN at the moment but my neighbors said everything was good to go.

[Tobus]

I sure hope everyone is OK. I'm not in Tennessee, but I have a jobsite smack-dab in the middle of Nashville... about 4 blocks from the river. Last I heard, the jobsite was under water. That's going to cause quite a delay in the project and cause untold headaches. But it's minor compared to the harm that real people are experiencing.

[SoulFyre777]

Overall, no real issues. I will share our experience though. The day before the storms hit, we had left our two year old daughter at my MIL's house in Nolensville and headed back to our home in Dickson. We lightly discussed whether it was a good idea to leave her there with severe weather threats on the way but eventually dismissed it for want of a much needed "Mommy and Daddy Break".

Well the next day, we woke up late, slouched around the house and generally just enjoyed our break. Then we started noticing the creek behind our house. It was so high that the water extended about 20-30 feet into the field. Maybe it's time to go get Ailidh, we thought! However, somehow, we still thought we had time to run a few errands before we made it back to the in-laws. Before long, we found ourselves in Cool Springs with 2-3 feet of water covering the roads in many places. I'm a storm spotter so I'm on the phone with NWS reporting everything I'm seeing and they're telling me this is far from over. We managed to get to about the only high spot in Cool Springs, the Kohl's parking lot. We stayed put, turning our car into the winds each time they changed direction.

After waiting out most of the heavy winds and lightning, we left the safety of our high ground and headed down Hwy. 96 towards our little girl. We drove through a whole lot of water with the windshield wipers on 'Frappé' and saw many a stranded motorist who tried to drive through places they shouldn't. When we made it to the in-laws, their driveway had been turned into a three-foot deep river of rushing water. We would find out later that this water had also washed out their bridge that crosses a "little creek" on their 1/2 mile driveway. Since they live in a very spread out community, owning 17 acres themselves, we found our way to the nearest home to them that wasn't underwater and asked if we could hike through the woods to get to our daughter. They graciously agreed and we set off through the woods towards the back of my in-laws' property.

We finally made it, soaked to the bone and we waited out the rest of the day and night there. When there was a break in the clouds at 6:30am, I got up and hiked back to get our car, met them at the now washed out bridge in their driveway, transferred all our stuff and we headed home.

A crazy weekend to be sure but we didn't experience anything like the loss that some did. We were certainly blessed and we are thankful! Just thought our story might be a welcome 'lighter side' to this situation.