Tami and I travelled through heavy rain all the way back to Nashville on Saturday afternoon. 5 miles from our exit, traffic came to a slow crawl. We thought it was an accident but when we finally got up to the flashing lights and police cars, what we saw was apparently dirt and debris left behind from water which had covered the Interstate. It had subsided from the northbound lanes but was continuing to hold up southbound lanes. Tami dropped me off at my house in Franklin and headed off for her home in Nashville, a 15-20 minute drive. Almost 2 hours later she finally got home, having to continually detour around flooded roadways. The following are pictures from our neighborhood, more particularly across the street and 2 houses down the street. All the pictures are of our street. We have had 13" of rain since Saturday. Downtown Franklin is under water also.
The water is coming from behind the house. It is a raging river. This house and the house to the right of it are under water.
Believe it or not this is where the entrance to the subdivision is located. The For Sale sign and mailbox are in the front yard of a house on a road perpendicular to the entrance road. You can see the highest part of the road in the distance, the rest is under water.
Neighborhood residents keep a close watch on the water.
Up close and personal with the rising water. We don't expect it to get any closer to us but we're watching too.
There was still water and the fog lay heavy over the road as Bill, Xena and I walked at 6 am.
This was the street at the front of the subdivision early Monday morning, 2 cars seen in the distance, caught in the flood waters.
By early evening this same road was clear except for the one car still marooned on the side of the road.
It doesn't show very well in this picture but there is a pylon in the road just before it turns ahead and that is where the flood waters crossed the road. Our house is the brick with the red shutters showing on the right
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