Death toll rises as river crests, floods Nashville

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clipped from news.yahoo.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Muddy waters poured over the banks of Nashville's swollen Cumberland River on Monday, spilling into Music City's historic downtown streets while rescuers using boats and Jet Skis plucked stranded residents away from their flooded homes as the death toll from the weekend storms climbed to 28 people in three states. The flash floods caused by record-breaking amounts of rain caught many off-guard, forcing thousands to frantically flee their homes and hotels. The rapidly rising waters led to the deaths of 17 people in Tennessee alone, including 10 in Nashville, and officials feared that the death toll could increase. Officials announced the latest deaths late Monday after receding flood waters revealed six more bodies. Do we suspect to find more people? Probably so Though the historic Ryman Auditorium — the former home of the Grand Ole Opry — and the recording studios of Music Row were not in immediate danger,

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At least 22 killed as Southeast floods

clipped from www.latimes.com T.W. Hale helps his friends vacuum water out of the Pilcher Building in downtown Nashville, where the Cumberland River continued to rise. Water was climbing through the riverfront tourist district. (John Partipilo, AP / May 4, 2010) Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen saw treetops poking through floodwaters as he viewed the damage during a helicopter tour Monday. "I've never seen flooding like this," he said. At least two people died in Kentucky and one in Tennessee after their vehicles were swept from flooded highways, and long-haul truckers were trapped along Interstate 40 in Tennessee. More than 300 roads were reported flooded in Kentucky alone. Nashville had its more severe flooding in 35 years, leaving part of the city's historic downtown deserted after residents and Music City tourists were evacuated. At least 6 feet of water from the overflowing Cumberland River coursed through the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, forcing 1,500 guests to flee to a high school.

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Tenn. officials brace for more flooding, deaths

clipped from news.yahoo.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Officials in Nashville braced for more deaths Monday as the flooded Cumberland River continued to swell, sending muddy water rushing through neighborhoods and threatening the historic heart of Music City after a destructive line of weekend storms killed 21 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky. Using motor boats and canoes, authorities and volunteers rescued scores of residents trapped in flooded homes, some which looked like islands surround by dark river water. The downtown — home of a historic warehouse district that dates back to the 1800s and is now occupied by bars and restaurants — was nearly deserted after authorities evacuated residents and tourists. Floodwater spilled into some streets near the riverfront, and restaurants and bars in the warehouse district were closed. A few blocks away, the historic Ryman Auditorium, longtime former home of the Grand Ole Opry, was in no immediate danger.

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Nashville’s Underwater – Obama’s Focused on the Gulf

clipped from republicanredefined.com With 11 people now confirmed dead falling victim to the worst flooding to Nashville in over a century, day breaks on the Music City only to illustrate the devastation left behind by a weekend of torrential downpours and unprecedented flooding. Relief boats and rescue personnel are coming in the form of local citizens.  Absent from the footage is any sign of FEMA or any logos or monikers of federal agencies.   Tennesseans are strapping it on and making the best of an extremely difficult situation.  They don’t call this the Volunteer State for nothing now do they? The morning’s images were that of rescue personnel transporting stranded patrons of local hotels across the newly created bodies of water.  They were of parking lots completely submerged with cars now lining the bottom of the muddy pools. I am deeply saddened and tremendously troubled by how little this tragedy has been carried by the national media.

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