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Monday, May 3, 2010

Nashville Weather | Nashville Flooding



Nashville Weather | Nashville Flooding on Television Today --- Nashville Weather | Nashville Flooding. Flooding on Nashville for a few days. The infrastructures in Nashville are bit at a risk of unsafe issues. The city is struggling to recover the damage the calamity has brought upon them. They miscalculated the amount of damage involved and when they saw a clear aerial view of the surroundings, they concluded that the damage was more on a larger scale than they thought.

The Nashville newspaper reported that the flooding has a caused a massive damage to the infrastructure and has submerged many neighborhoods. The people are suffering from flooded homes and are forced to stay back in their homes due to the road closures. The cable news network uploaded some footages of the massive destruction made by the flooding. The Nashville flood occurred on Saturday and slowly began to rise. The rain was continuous and rose up to thirteen inches. The officials were reported of four deaths and the latest reports say it has risen to eleven dead people.

The Central Tennessee residents are affected the most whereby Karl Dean, the area Mayor had an aerial survey alongside the local authorities and subsequently stated; “The damages caused by the floods are beyond my expectations.” There were also reports on shutting down of a Nashville-based water treatment plant that was announced closed while on Sunday evening.

Meanwhile, the Cumberland River levee’s leakage news was further confirmed on Sunday thus making the situation all the more dangerous and worse. If Mr. Karl Dean said it would be a pretty ‘long and large recovery process,’ he was very right since thousands of vehicles would be seen floating like tiny toys all along the streets and highways with homes completely engulfed by the water up to many feet.

City Mayor further stated that the safety of city’s infrastructure had question mark following the devastating damages that had magnitudes beyond community’s expectations. The newspapers revealed that two numbers teens risked their lives by attempting to raft the creek while using inner tubes. The fire as well as rescue personnel were unable to locate the pair till late Sunday.

At least 6 more deaths on Sunday thus taking the total tally to 11 while at least 2 more people are reported missing. Countless people are forced to evacuate their respective homes and businesses following rising level of flood-water that has entered inside the basements of several residential as well as commercial buildings.

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