Friday, May 7, 2010

NASHVILLE FLOOD HAPPY STORIES..........

During the last few days everyone in Tennessee has had there eyes glued to our TV sets following the tragic flood in and around Nashville with the loss of lives and property.
Mother nature turned on the rain faucet for two days. Downtown Nashville Cumberland river poured over her banks twelve feet above flood stage. Thousand of homes and business were total under water. Eleven people to date lost there lives in the flood waters. Two men are still missing and a search has been under way trying and locate them.
With all the tragedy people suffered losing love ones and their homes, car, trucks some good stories are beginning to surface. I will share a couple of those good stories with you.
A woman was trapped in her home with the raging water all around the house. She smelled gas coming from the house and was on her cell phone with a 911 operator. She was afraid the house was going to blow up. The 911 operator warned her not to jump into the raging water that she would be pulled under by the strong current. Her other option; if she stayed in the house and it caught on fire she would be burned alive. Not very good options!! She begin to pray!!! All at once her angel of mercy appeared on his jet ski. "
 Get on and let's get away from this house he said. Some 100 yards away the house exploded into a massive fireball. She told reporters that her angel of mercy drove a jet ski. 
Many animals were displaced. Pets were lost to the flood waters. One woman was missing several of her horses. In the aftermath efforts to located them didn't look promising at all. She received a call from a friend that had seen what he thought was one of her horses trapped on an island on the TV news. Sure enough it was her favorite horse who had been swept 14 miles downstream from her home. The horse was not seriously injured.
More heart warming stories are coming out of the tragic flood.

6 comments:

  1. Hi Nick... I got trapped on the Georgia side of all that mess and had to take the southern route back to Oklahoma... I was packing to head home the morning it all started and my son discouraged me from travelling that way... I waited a couple of days for it to clear, but finally changed directions and went south through Miss. and Louisiana... Even with all the devastation, there are always some interesting stories to come out of it...

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  2. Good stories, love the happy endings.

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  3. Bad times bring out the best in people Nick. There will be a lot of hero stories and happy pet stories I hope. I feel so bad for all those folks down there.

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  4. Good to hear there are some happy outcomes.

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  5. Lovely to hear some positive stories in amongst all the sadness...

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