2010 Flood
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Pictures capturing the 2010 Flood in Nashville
As downtown Nashville began to flood a somewhat unknown part of town also filled with water. “Tent City,” containing makeshift homes for a population of Nashville’s homeless, was completely submerged, displacing people who already have so little.
- Kurt Goethert
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8:30 a.m. on Monday, May 3, 2010 in the Abbington Park neighborhood, looking down Delta Queen Drive, one of the hardest hit streets in this newer subdivision.
- Brian Blas
Brian Tailor replacing a manhole cover on Wedgewood Avenue
- Jude Ferrara
Panorama of the Cumberland River and the Nashville skyline
- Bryan Andrews
Mud soaked building on Charlotte Avenue
- Bryan Andrews
Monday, May 3, 2010 at 9 a.m. Briley Parkway at Opry Mills
- Debra King
Floodwaters still covered the barn of a horse farm, left, located at the corner of Old Hickory Boulevard and Old Lebanon Dirt Road in Hermitage Monday, but the horses were able to safely reach the higher ground.
- Doug Dyer
Tuesday, May 4, 2010. The inside of Bridgestone Arena
- Eric England
Ismial Aldramili inspects his cab after it flooded.
- Eric England
Flooding postponed the Davidson County primary election until Tuesday, May 18.
- Eric England
This turtle was crossing Nolensville Pike trying to head for higher ground. He was saved and released into a safer environment.
- Erik Hollander
A man kayaks through a downtown parking lot
- John Murner
Semitrucks under water off of Nester Street near the Tennessee Central Railway Museum and the MTA headquarters
- John Murner
Sunday, May 2, 2010 in Bellevue. Residents at the intersection of Harpeth Valley and Bellevue Manor Drive offered stranded neighbors ferry rides to dry land for emergency medical assistance or to be reunited with family.
- John Rives
A homeless woman using a portable bathroom in the floodwater
- Jude Ferrara
As downtown Nashville began to flood a somewhat unknown part of town also filled with water. “Tent City,” containing makeshift homes for a population of Nashville’s homeless, was completely submerged, displacing people who already have so little.
- Kurt Goethert
A car in the Belle Meade Kroger parking lot
- Michael Jezewski
Resident Ron Johnson drying out his personal items
- Jude Ferrara
- Warne Riker Photography (wrikerphoto.com )
A pavilion at Shelby Bottoms
- Sawyer Richardson
Monday, May 3, 2010. The entrance to LP Field
- Sinclair Kelly
Blackjack Cove Marina in Old Hickory.Even a duck can ride out the flood if it has the right equipment.
- Steve Anderson
Dollar General on Rosa Parks Boulevard
- Steve Cross
Johnny Cash downtown.
- Trace McAlister
The gates at Cheekwood
- Warne Riker Photography (wrikerphoto.com )
The rain wall, Sunday, May 2
- Warne Riker Photography (wrikerphoto.com )
Howell + Sun Valley - Hillsboro Acres, Franklin
- Krstine Neeley
The intersection of Wallace and Humber just outside a neighborhood in South Nashville.
- Trina Julian Edwards
The back lot of Bates Nursery
- Sara Bates
North 9th street in East Nashville on Sunday morning
- Rachel Young
This was taken looking over the Whitebridge Road bridge near Harding Pike. Richland Creek had made a lot of work for CSX as it washed away the foundation of the railroad tracks. Sunday, May 2.
- Natalie Vincent
The man in green waders is exhausted after rescuing 2 from the flooded waters of Richland Creek at the corner of Hillwood and Harding Pike near the Belle Meade Kroger. Sunday, May 2.
- Natalie Vincent
On rescue mission to save stranded animals in the Waterford community
- Betsy Herst
Neighbors help residents to dry land on McGinnis Drive in Inglewood.
- Jack Silverman
Rivers Prather fishing in what was Pinkerton Park
- Ken Whitehouse
Rest Haven Cemetery, Franklin
- Ken Whitehouse
Fire at Fieldstone Farms
- Ken Whitehouse
Flooding on Highway 100
- Warne Riker (wrikerphoto.com)
Flooding on a Brentwood farm
- Warne Riker (wrikerphoto.com)
oil spills into the flood waters
- Warne Riker (wrikerphoto.com)
Hillsboro Road/5th ave N, Franklin, Tn, near N. Margin St.
- Ken Whitehouse
A mudslide in a home in Nashviille
Monday, May 3, 2010. Old Hickory Lake Beach Recreation Area
- Steve Anderson
Monday, May 3, 2010. Schermerhorn Symphony Center began to take on water.
- Chris Ferrell
People downtown crossed through high waters to take photos of this historic flood
- Brent Rolen
The roof of a car is all that remains visible on Second Avenue downtown.
- Misty Cochran
