What a weekend!

We have managed to collect more than fifteen inches of rain in our gauge since yesterday. The rain collected about 1 1/2 inches high in our basement, and trickled down our chimney into the laundry room. The boys bailed the basement and I supported their efforts with lots of good cooking. We have been okay since the rain slowed down, but things are really rough in Nashville and all of Middle Tennessee tonight. Hundreds of homes underwater and the worst is yet to come as the rivers start to crest. Here are some pictures the boys took of the soccer fields near our house. Fortunately we are way up on a ridge and it is down in a bottom, but close none the less.

There are two sets of pictures taken several hours apart. You can click on the photos for a larger image.

Also, we are quite close to the Opryland Hotel and it has been evacuated and the water is in the parking lot of the hotel and Opry Mills Mall. It is all very surreal.

These steps at Lock Two Park go down to the Cumberland river about ten feet further down.
May 2, 2010 at about 11:00 am.


Heartland soccer fields
May 2, 2010 at about 10:30 am


Heartland soccer fields
May 2, 2010 at about 10:30 am


Heartland soccer fields
May 2, 2010 at about 10:30 am


Heartland soccer fields
May 2, 2010 at 5:30 pm



May 2, 2010 at 6:00 pm



May 2, 2010 at 6:20
The disappearing fire hydrant. Now you see it...


May 2, 2010 at 6:45
Now you don't.

Fire hydrant mostly gone, and the blue storage containers from the earlier pictures are just visible in the right corner.