Nashville TN Flood of May 2010 One Year Anniversar
y This week
As Nashville looks back over the past year, one quivers in fear as the rain keeps pouring down on a city that received 13 inches of rain in a 2 day period, one year ago.
The local papers and TV reporters have filled us with Then and Now stories. Of Successful re openings and Empty storefronts. Of homes completely renovated to those still vacant with broken windows. No one was left untouched in someway either by the water itself entering your home or business, or the hours you spent helping those in need.
Almost 11,000 properties were affected. That included homes, businesses and public buildings damaged by the flood. It was a horrifying site to see the water enter our beloved Grand Ole Opryhouuse and the Shermerhorn Symphony Center.
300-400 business have still not re-opened. Many people are just now, 12 months later, moving into their homes.
"We are Nashville" and "Nashville Rising" became the slogans splashed across the Internet and T-Shirts as Nashville felt the Nations' eyes on the Gulf Coast oil spill, instead of the great disaster here. 
This week to commemorate the occasion, there were picnics in Bellevue, Mayor Dean had a Service that was moved inside to the Shermerhorn (due to rain of course), the Opry celebrated with "Play on Nashville" opry jam and Saturday there will be a 5k and 1 mile Run/Walk cleverly named the Hell or High Water flood run.
The City's lasting Legacy will always be the response to the Flood. Volunteers donated more than 300,000 hours of time through Hands On Nashville.
One River Plantation resident talked about the van full of people who pulled up in front of her condo. She said "I don't know you." The driver responded "It doesn't matter. We're here to help. Tell us what to do."
Stories like that were told all over the area. These are before and after pictures of River Plantation, one of the hardest hit neighborhoods.
Every home was stripped down to the studs. No flooring, electrical, walls or appliances could saty inside. Everything had to go.
Over 1400 people were rescued from their homes by Nashvillle's Emergency responders.
We a proud group of people and we will continue to help our neighbors until everyone has moved back home.
Connie Harveyis a local agent with Pilkerton Realtors, serving home buyers and sellers in Nashville, TN, Brentwood TN, and Franklin TN. Let her help you realize your Real Estate goals. She can be reached at 615-371-2474.
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Connie...a very touching story of how many people stepped up to the plate to help those in need. I'm glad that Nashville is getting back to what it was before the flood. Hopefully the businesses that haven't started back up yet will still be able to do so.
Connie- whenever I begin to wonder about people and what we do to each other, it's stories like this that reassure me that people are basically good. Thank you for reminding us of this event.
Kim - It's easy to forget how bad it really was. The truck in the picture was on the interstate. When we saw it on the evening news, you saw the truck drive into the water and the waves it created caused the other cars to bob up and down like plasic balls!
Kathy - One of the interesting things about this story is that there was no looting. Remember when Katrina hit New Orleans and crap like that was all over the news? Nada here. The only thing bad was shady vendors going door to door offering to do work for money. thankfully there were so many volunteers doing it for free that few people were scammed.
Hi Connie - Such a sad story. It is still all about people helping people.
Conrad - Most everywhere seems back to normal but unfortunately there are a few families still struggling.
Wow, the devastation is yucky. I do love how much people that don't know each other will come together in a crisis :) That is a beautiful thing for sure. i hope that Nashville doesn't see anymore floods for a long long time!!!
Connie...great to see a rememberance of such an event.....only because so many people NOT affected by things like this quickly forget about them.
For those that have had to deal with it, the struggle goes on. I think the most striking part of your post was:
One River Plantation resident talked about the van full of people who pulled up in front of her condo. She said "I don't know you." The driver responded "It doesn't matter. We're here to help. Tell us what to do."
We NEED more positive stories like that.
Let's hope the heavens will be watchful over you this year/
Wow, Connie it's been a year already? It's pretty incredible how people support and help each other when these tragedies occur.
Christina - from your lips to God's ears!
Thom - It was the most amazing thing to see, people by the thousands, helping other. Those that couldn't do labor would cook food and take it to the volunteers!
Ann - Time flys by.
I was in the Grand Old Opry Hotel a few years ago for a real estate seminar. I couldn't believe it when they said it was flooded. Ironically they had a simulated river in the lobby that had a boat ride in it.
Dave, it has reopened and they were able to save a lot of the original wood. I think they got in there really fast and started working on it.
It's hard to believe it has been a year; I'm sure you drive by places and can hardly remember how it looked on that day...hopefully everybody is in a better place today.
Cindy - I would say most people are back to normal. The condos you see here are old and those that rebuilt totally updated them so they actually live in nicer places than before!!