TN flooding

[BigPapa]

Any of you seen the reports of the flooding Saturday here in TN? 22 dead and @ 20 still unaccounted for. They got a bit over 17” of rain in about 14 hours. I’ve never seen anything like it. NUMEROUS houses washed off their foundations and others just torn apart.

The water busted down one families front door, the mother got out a window and was immediately swept away but grabbed a tree. The father tried to carry their four kids out. Their 5 year old and 19 month old were able to hold on to him but their 7 month old twins were ripped from his arms.

Gary Ames was coming through there Saturday morning and was one of the last ones through before the flooding totally shutdown I-40.

 

[BigPapa]

 

[gsbrockman]

I travel that corridor a lot delivering GatorMade trailers to the drop yard in Byhalia, MS. I was listening to Road Dog Trucking on SIRIUS today and they also mentioned that the foreman of the Loretta Lynn Ranch was swept away and died as well.

Apparently I-40 was supposedly under 10 feet of water in places. I delivered in Byhalia Friday morning and was out of the area by 11:30 or so CDT on Friday, before the rains started later Friday.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...killed-saturdays-tennessee-floods/8237829002/

 

[Timd32]

I have a rain gauge at home and report back to a network called CoCoRaHS

What is CoCoRaHS?
CoCoRaHS is an acronym for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. CoCoRaHS is a unique, non-profit, community-based network of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds working together to measure and map precipitation (rain, hail and snow). By using low-cost measurement tools, stressing training and education, and utilizing an interactive Web-site, our aim is to provide the highest quality data for natural resource, education and research applications. We are now in all fifty states.

With that said I'm new to this deal, but the reports are used for historical data, farming, and also tracking sudden weather events.

Here is some data from the closest area, note the one person lost most of their home, they were reporting steady since around 2007.

These are a little east of the hardest hit areas they are showing on our news out east.

From upper red dot

From lower red dot

 

[Timd32]

I posted this to my FB. We have local support efforts thru our church and UMCOR.

But if you know of a local support effort please pass it on.....

 

[BigPapa]

This was a relatively narrow band of rain that ran like a train over the affected area. I live in Springfield which is North of Nashville and about 30-35 miles east of where the rain fell and we MIGHT have gotten an inch Saturday.

This morning the news was reporting that they've asked people not to try to come to the area and to suspend material donations. Right now they say the best way to help is monetary donations. They have also narrowed the list of missing people to @ 10. One of those is a 15 year old girl that was swept away.

 

[Timd32]

Agree support your local efforts with donations and assistance.

We have several in our area that pack flood buckets thru out the year and then when a few pallets gets packed they head to Ohio for distribution.

They always post the actual needs if it's labor, $, or specific items.

There is alot folks can do all over that impact many.

That's just one small example.

 

[BigPapa]

They’ve adjusted the death toll to 18 and 2 remain missing.

 

[BigPapa]

This is the sheriff’s explanation of how the instant flood happened in Waverly.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/h...plains-what-resulted-in-sudden-surge-of-water

 

[Timd32]

Intresting. When I was reading that report of the person who lost their home they mentioned flooding in 2010, I looked that up and found a decent summary of what cause that mass flooding. That area has had some massive events very close together all things considered.

https://www.weather.gov/ohx/may2010flood