Update from Flood Central!!!!

[vintageracer]

Now I know how Noah felt!

Everything is peachy keen from flood central. The water on the Harpeth rose to 5 1/2 feet above the 100 year flood plain which is 2 1/2 feet above the 500 year flood plain and the Corp of Engineers "Never Flood" area on their maps. Fortunately for me my first floor elevation on my house is 7 feet above the 100 year flood plain. I have another 1 1/2 feet of water space to go!

The basement garage and the garage on the other side of the house flooded. The basement garage got about 8 feet of water. All the cars were moved. The shop flooded with about 4 feet of water. 2 cars were on the lifts and were fine. Other than a bunch of floating junk were fine.

Carl, Brian and Mark were all over here today along with some other helpers. Thanks a bunch guys for ALL YOUR HELP!!!!

The basement garage and the shop are now clean and free of mud. Most of the junk is washed down and cleaned. I am probably the only guy in Nashville with 2 dumpsters delivered today for the cleaning project. My wife said to clean the garage last week so I did!

We made the national news with a horse rescue across the culdisac. LOT's of local arial coverage. No water in the house. 3 of 5 heat and air units got wet. We will check them out tomorrow. Bubba called yesterday and asked what I needed. I said a generator, gas and beer. The BOAT arrived a couple of hours later with all the supplies.


My mobile phone is dead and this is the first internet I have had. More to come!!!!

[Steve1968LS2]

Wow.. sorry to hear.. hope it all dries out quickly for you.

[Tony_SS]

Glad the house and cars were spared! Been there done that. I was pulling computer equip off the floor as water was rushing in underneath the doors. The sad thing was our house did not flood due to the creeks, but due to the morons who couldn't engineer a sewer system on a cul-de-sac to accept the water run off properly.

I saw some of the aerials of Nashville... its looks pretty rough.

[Steve68]

Good luck, Mike, I saw the footage and it looks pretty bad. Real good on not losing everything!!!

[Bill Howell]

No wonder I could not get you on the phone, I have been concerned since I know your location. Dang it Mike. Do I need to bring the rollback over? Yall should just come to the mountains for a week.

[Motown 454]

Sorry to hear of you troubles but glad everyone is ok.

[protouring70]

Luckily the family is safe!!! All else can be replaced!!

[dropit69]

damn Mike ..hope all goes well .was wondering if we had any members that were in the area..good luck

[vintageracer]

Update!!!

The basement garage is cleaned out of the mud and other debris. I am actually putting stuff back.

The shop is completely cleaned and most everything is back inthe shop. I had 2 dumpsters delivered on Tuesday. One is full and has left. The other is half full. My wife suggested I clean out the garages 2 weeks ago. She got her wish.

My problems are minor. One older couple lost their lives when they drove their car in water, got stuck and tried to leave the car. They were both found dead 2 1/2 miles down stream at Kroger and Publix. There was a cow rescued down the street from my house that was on TOP of the barn! Our toy store suffered no damage. Across the street at the high end car lot all the cars were totaled. Our neighbors resturant 5 doors down from our toy store was a total loss with the building flooded, parking lot buckled and more!

The 161k volt 150 foot TVA tower at the back of our property collapsed. The water at the Cheatem County dam is 15 feet OVER the top of the dam. Downtown Nashville is flooded. Titans stadium was flooded. Opryland Hotel has 6 feet of water in the lobby. Opry Mills Mall next door has 6 feet of water in the mall. That's after RAISING the property 3 feet when it was constructed!

We had Katrina type flooding with the only difference being that the water had a good current and receded fast.

All the water had receded at my house and the Harpeth River back to normal level this morning. That's 36 hours after a Biblical flood. We are now at 15 inches of rain for may in the first 2 days of the month. We are only 1 inch away from record May rain with 29 days to go!!!

Lot's of people lost everything. My next door neighbor had 4 feet of water in his house. My house did not get any water on the first floor. Just the basement garage, shop and the garage on the other side of the house.

All in all a tough Cinco De Mayo for most but I am on the downhill slide!

More to come later!!

[shortrack]

I dont even know what to say......

[frankenstang]

Hopefully our company (AT&T) will ask for guys to go down there to help rebuild. There's a bunch of guys chomping at the bit to go south.

Glad you're OK down there. Of all the terrible things that happen in a flood like that, people don't realize how it screws up the telephone infrastructure.

Lots of cleaning and praying and healing ahead for you folks, good luck

[vintageracer]

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Here are pictures from the flood.

Please look at the pictures and see the flood picture from May 2nd and a similiar picture today Sunday May 9th for comparison. In all pictures with the water the water was at least 1 foot plus higher at the crest than in the pictures. In the pictures of the lower garage the 4 garage doors the water was still rising as they were covered at the crest. The playhouse had water to the top of the middle slat in the front door and the shop had 4 feet of water in it up to the door handle on the front door.

The last picture is of the 155 foot (161K volt) TVA tower that fell. It has been replaced as of today!

You can see that for me the pictures today really look like nothing happened with the exception of the dumpster in the pictures by the shop. I have included current pictures of my next door neighbor who got 4 feet of water IN his house. What you see is all the flooring, drywall and everything else out of the house, in the dumpster and waiting for more dumpster space.

3 of my neighbors have major flooding problems. I was only inconvienenced!

Here is my fototime album for your review!

http://www.fototime.com/inv/BC0B33803133919

[mc84_zz4]

I guess you could say: 'it can always be worse', but that is pretty hard to imagine.
That is a LOT of water, geez!

[WS6]

WOW! That's a lot of water. Glad to know you and your family are safe, Mike.