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Flooding in Ky & TN
« on: May 02, 2010, 10:35:23 PM »

Are there any members that are affected by all the flooding that is happening in KY and TN?
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2010, 02:48:58 AM »

if there are, they are quite unlikely to answer as I happened to experience in 2002 ...
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2010, 03:12:16 AM »

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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2010, 09:42:49 AM »

Some flooding of low lying areas a few miles north of me.  Fortunately no injuries but lots of inconveneince.  The Nashville area was hit even harder.  There were some deaths up that way.  And farther south in Mississippi some deaths from tornados over the weekend.  Lots and lots of rain but the sun is shining this morning.  :2vrolijk_21:
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2010, 11:17:41 PM »

Was down in KY for the Derby. Staying in Bullit county (E-Town) when the tornado warning sirens went off at 6 am Sunday. Everybody to the basement and hope like hell nothing happens. Lucky for us no touch down. Rained like a son of a gun all day with plenty of thunder and lightening.
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2010, 06:27:01 PM »

We had water in our crawlspace, out building was flooded, most of the stuff in it, except for the tractor was destroyed.  Not sure yet if the yard survived.  We fared much better than a lot.
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2010, 07:19:36 PM »

Has the fed gubment steped in to help the people of  Tennessee like they did in New Orleans  I have not seen the news in the last few days   ....
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2010, 07:31:15 PM »

Probably won't get Federal Funding til we start wide scale looting.

It's funny....When New Orleans was hit, Tennessee sent people to help.  Haiti hit by an earthquake, Tennessee sent people....every time there is a major area disaster, Tennessee sends people.  Who's doing all the volunteer cleanup in Nashville?  Tennesseans.
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2010, 09:09:49 PM »

Probably won't get Federal Funding till we start wide scale looting.

It's funny....When New Orleans was hit, Tennessee sent people to help.  Haiti hit by an earthquake, Tennessee sent people....every time there is a major area disaster, Tennessee sends people.  Who's doing all the volunteer cleanup in Nashville?  Tennesseans.
  It is amazing, some States and countries are givers others are takers.  The Feds seem to forget us at home in favor of other countries, and if they react as fast as they did in the Katrina catastrophe you will indeed have wide spread looting first.  Anything I can do let me know.
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2010, 10:00:00 AM »

And as usual the laimstream media has been asleep at the wheel in reporting on this.  My thoughts and prayers are with those that are affected by this.  Kudos to those who picked up and came together to deal with it.  This shows how the fed gov't has their priorities all wrong.
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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2010, 03:32:52 PM »

As an employee of FEMA, I get a little miffed when I read these types of uniformed comments.  First off, the Feds are prevented by law in responding to any incident/disaster in a state until the Governor requests the Federal Government's help. So if we seem late to responding to something, it's because the state was late in requesting it.  We've had assets on the ground in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky since May 4th, as soon as we could get people in after being requested.  The FEMA Administrator and the Secretary of Homeland Security have made two personal visits to the flooded area since it happened and are, as I write this, on the ground in Tennessee.  

Sorry to bust your rants folks, but it's not always the Fed's fault.  We always get the blame though, as witnessed by these comments, but that's part of being in the business I guess.  

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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2010, 05:25:43 PM »

thought some of you would enjoy reading this.


"Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:10:37 AM by Fighting Irish

Allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website.

What I am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey.

If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but that’s no reason to be ignored.

The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in damage occurred. It is the single largest disaster to hit Middle Tennessee since the Civil War. And yet…no one knows about it.

Does it really matter? Eventually, it will…as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. It’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isn’t a perception that we need it.

But let’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.

Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but you’ll be wrong.

Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. I’m still having trouble comprehending all of it.

And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, I’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, we’ll be discussing the new Predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.

Because we are Nashville"


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Re: Flooding in Ky & TN
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2010, 10:40:58 AM »

As an employee of FEMA, I get a little miffed when I read these types of uniformed comments.  First off, the Feds are prevented by law in responding to any incident/disaster in a state until the Governor requests the Federal Government's help. So if we seem late to responding to something, it's because the state was late in requesting it.  We've had assets on the ground in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky since May 4th, as soon as we could get people in after being requested.  The FEMA Administrator and the Secretary of Homeland Security have made two personal visits to the flooded area since it happened and are, as I write this, on the ground in Tennessee. 

Sorry to bust your rants folks, but it's not always the Fed's fault.  We always get the blame though, as witnessed by these comments, but that's part of being in the business I guess. 

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Thanks for this post, this is good information to know.  And this post just confirms what I said that IF the media was doing their job they would find out this information and pass it along.
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