Tennessee Flood of 2010

Hi everyone! Thanks for all the thoughts, emails, and phone calls the last few days. Casey and I are just fine. Our new house and neighborhood are fine, but our old house and neighborhood is suffering. They were evacuated by boat on Sunday night. The old house looks okay from pictures, but the road is flooded and closed, so Casey and I would've been stuck!

The heavily flooded area begins about 10 miles down the road from our current house. The only way I'm personally affected is I can't work. My patients, for the most part, are either evacuated or unreachable at this point. I attached several pictures for you guys to check out. There are many more on my facebook page.

I've never been through anything like this. The city is panicked, and it's really weird seeing a place you frequent completely under water. I drive Riverside Drive at least twice a week, and some of our favorite sites and restaurants in Nashville are ruined. Some small businesses aren't planning on rebuilding. It just devestating no matter how you look at it.

As of two hours ago, the Cumberland River in Clarksville was still rising. Hopefully it has started to recede by now. They opened the Cheatham Dam and some others barriers to relieve Nashville, but its causing our waters to rise. The sewage treatment plant has flooded, and raw sewage is being dumped in the Cumberland now. They think our water supply will be okay, but we're supposed to be using as little as possible. We were on a county wide curfew last night! It's been really weird.

Downtown Clarksville.

Riverside Drive in Clarksville, TN. This is a major roadway connecting the River District to Ft. Campbell. I use this road a lot.

Hooters in Downtown Clarksville.

Our Riverwalk in Clarksville.

Our Riverwalk in Clarksville.

Opryland Resort in Nashville, TN. Chris and I stayed in this section on our first anniversary.

View of Downtown Nashville, TN and the ATT&T/"Batman" building. LP Field (where our Titans play) and the Bridgestone Arena (where our Predators play) were also flooded nearby.

The old neighborhood either Saturday or Sunday.

Our old neighborhood, about 5 houses down from the old house.

The old neighborhood, toward the end of the culdesac.

We've been in Clarksville a year now. We've experienced 8 inches of snow, tornadoes in VERY close proximity, and now a flood. What's next Clarksville?? Haha.