Rain, Rain On My Face
I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m a sucker for extreme weather. When we had that weird ice storm thing Blue and I were out most of the day walking around and then we took a drive sliding all over the place. This crazy rain, flooding thing is no exception either. After two days of hearing about the craziness I had to get out and see for myself just how bad it was. Turns out, the news and weather reports were right. Floods everywhere.
It took us about an hour to figure out a way to the store that wasn’t completely flooded. And we only had to go through one pretty serious deep part. I was waiting for the car to shut off, but it never did. At one point I went back and picked up Kristin and the boys so they could come with me and we could make it a ‘family adventure’. We actually ended up passing two or three other grocery stores to get to the one I wanted to go to. We win this one.
Seriously though. My heart goes out to the tons of people affected by this mess. We happen to be some of the fortunate ones that have a house on a slight hill. There are several houses that we even drove past today that aren’t as fortunate.
I’ve heard all sorts of “statistics” today, but I don’t know if any of them are true. Most rain in a hundred years, National Guard is posted, buildings are falling over, official ‘State of Emergency’, dusk to dawn curfew, ect. All pretty believable after taking a little drive around, but we don’t have local TV so we’re basically going off of Twitter and the interweb.
So what’s up Nashville, everyone okay?
Dude, this thing is crazy. Even from Oregon. Hearing from lots of friends of damage and issues with travel, but very grateful to hear so far, that all are safe! Including you
By the way, I think it was this guys fault for the rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjoPEADE5Y
I’m sure you’re going to get plenty of people negatively commenting on the fact that you took your family on an “outing” under the current circumstances. I , however, will NOT be one of them. We would have do the same thing.
You LOVE your family and I know you would NEVER do anything to endanger them! I’m sure it was a fun adventure and I’m glad you were able to find some coffee! Glad eveyone is safe. Now stay home and have another family campin!
East Nashville is not bad. Only thing over here is some people’s basements have flooding. My house doesn’t have a basement. I too went for a little drive and my roommate and I checked out the downtown area (also not bad) and the Cumberland river (CRAZY HIGH!) we got some crazy pics of the river and went home.
Brody, we are fascinated by the weather also. A couple of years ago there was a tornado spotted about 4 or 5 miles from our home and instead of taking shelter guess where we were? In the middle of the street trying to see the thing. We were not the only ones most of our neighbors were outside looking too. Not a smart thing to do I know but curiousity got the best of us.
You would think we would know better than to do that because my son lost his best friend from injuries he received when a tree fell on him during a tornado. That tornado was the one that hit Nashville in April 1998. He attended Vanderbilt and was in Centennial Park when it hit. At that time they had no working sirens so he never knew there was a tornado.
We live just outside of Memphis and had a lot of flooding too this weekend. The sirens were constantly going and there were tornado spottings all around us. Thankfully, we had no problems.