My disappearance....

We did not fall off the edge of the world, but the creek did rise 10 or so feet above flood stage here in Nashville and surrounding areas.

The water has been devastating many have lost all they own and are in the process, the ever long process, of dealing with clean up and FEMA.

Unfortunately you may not have heard much about the waters. None of the major national media outlets picked up the story until 4 or 5 days after the city and much of the historical downtown area was already underwater. We have had no visit from the current sitting President. To our knowledge no out of state groups are coming in to help us out. We being the Volunteer State are standing on our own two feet sloshing through the water and picking up the pieces. After 80% of the flooded areas in the county I live in had been surveyed the damage is at an estimated 1.6 billion dollars, that my friends does not include the damage to the Opryland Hotel, Grand Ole Opry House or the OpryMills outlet Mall.

In pondering why this has not been on the radar of the nation we Nashvillians noticed, people were not leaving the state in droves, they were staying and helping rescue others from roof tops of houses and the tops of their cars. There has been no looting, there has been no large crime sprees or outbreaks of violence. We are doing what needs to be done to get dug out and cleaned up and taking care of.

Our family has been extremely fortunate other than being stranded at the house for a couple of days because the access roads were flooded we are safe and dry. I will say tho that one of the water treatment plants was flooded and the other is only running at about 56% capacity which means we are on water conservation orders, cooking and drinking and small amounts of hand washing only. Our water supply so far is still good and are not on boil orders as some of the surrounding area are.

Both parks where we do our training runs have been decimated. The Shelby Bottoms area where I competed in my first 1/2 Marathon is also in the same state.

Friends and fellow runners not in the state of Tennessee please pray for us that we can get dug out and on our way to recovery.

Till Next Time

FCR and Hubby