The Great Flood of Tennessee 2010
So, yesterday morning Gray and I headed into work. We knew it was going to rain and possible tornadic activity, but hey, we need money to pay bills so we went.
The first signs we had that this storm might be BIG was from the Sanborns in Memphis, Gray’s parents. They called later in our shift and were talking about tornado sirens and flooding… LOTS of flooding. Like so much flooding in Jackson that people were being rescued from their homes by boat..
Still, I apparently thought that would not come near us because are a text from a friend, I went to the library to study. Passing Pathophysiology is more important to me than being safe, obviously. Caroline and I had been studying for over a hour when the tornado siren on campus went off. We both freaked out, grabbed everything, I went to the bathroom, and then we decided to leave. I was going to the BAS lab because if I was going to be stuck, I’d rather be stuck with people I know! She needed to get home to her kids, so we headed out the door, only to be called back my library employees.
“I HAVE to get home to my kids!” Caroline screamed at the man who insisted we come back. Apparently someone set off the library alarm, so he had to double check to make sure we weren’t book thieves. We weren’t.
The tornado siren is VERY loud throughout the quad, because it bounces off all three buildings and well, loudness ensues… once I got into the building, Gray confirmed over the phone that the tornado was actually 30 miles away, in the Northwest part of our county… so naturally I told him to drive on over to campus, it’s safer here than in our apt, I figured.
We hung out at the lab for probably a hour before I realized, “Hey this is more flooding than anything else, let’s go home!” We drove a friend of ours over to his apt. and then raced home… in the pouring rain. It was exactly like the night I got rear-ended so I was waiting for someone to hit us head on or something, yes I still have issues!
So we made it home and got to watch all sorts of crazy pictures and videos… CRAZINESS.
I actually have a video I took as we watched dinner. It’s a mobile home/school building that falls apart in the “river” which is actually the interstate, completely flooded. Yeah, that was only 30 minutes away from here… a road I drove on every day a few years ago to get to work… our only access to Nashville… awesomeness.
So yeah, major rain, major flooding, and I’m wondering how this will affect finals because we have a LOT of commuters.
Channel 5 had a phone interview with the Principal of the school that the building belonged to (Lighthouse Christian Academy), and he said it was a portable that they used for their missions department. So, not a mobile home, not a portable classroom, and not a concession stand as they had been reporting before.
@Trina: I don't care what it was, it was a building that floated down the interstate and broke into bits!
It is a disaster, I totally hate it when it rains so heavy plus a tornado, it is something that no one can predict. The only thing can be done is to be prepared when this happens.
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