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appeared on the Boston.com website May 05, 2010
http://boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/flooding_in_tennessee.html
1. The Cumberland River floods outside of its banks Tuesday
on May 4, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. More than 13 inches
of rain fell over two days, more than doubling the previous
record of 6.68 inches and leaving as many as 18 dead in
Tennessee, including nine in Nashville. (Jeff Gentner/Getty
Images)
2. Ira Godsy, who lives in the Knights Motel in East
Nashville, wades out to his car, Sunday, May 2, 2010.
Most of the cars were underwater due to storms that brought
heavy flooding and tornados to the region over the weekend.
(AP Photo/The Tennessean, John Partipilo)
3. A car is pinned up against a tree by floodwater flowing
under a bridge on Sunday, May 2, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Severe storms dumped heavy rain on Tennessee for the second
straight day. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
4. Jackson Police and Madison County Sheriff's Department
close Airport Road near McKenzie Store to rescue a woman
washed off the road by high flood waters during heavy
storms in Jackson, Tennessee, Saturday, May 1, 2010. (AP
Photo/The Jackson Sun, Morris Abernathy)
5. Buildings and city streets are still under floodwater
as the sun sets on May 4, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee.
(Jeff Gentner/Getty Images)
6. Houses are surrounded by water from Cumberland river
after heavy rains from the weekend in Nashville, Tennessee
May 4, 2010. (REUTERS/M. J. Masotti Jr.)
7. Airplanes sit partially submerged in floodwater at
the Cornelia Fort Airpark Tuesday, May 4, 2010, in Nashville,
Tennessee. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
8. Donald Sweat and Sarah Tippett take photos of a railroad
bridge that was washed off its foundations when floodwaters
swelled the creek that leads to the Lebanon square, Lebanon,
Tennessee on Sunday, May 2, 2010. (AP Photo/The Tennessean,
Larry McCormack)
9. The General Jackson Showboat floats in the Cumberland
River as the Opry Mills shopping complex stands in floodwaters
from the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, on
Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
10. A house is surrounded by floodwater Tuesday, May
4, 2010, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
11. The loading docks at the Opryland Hotel are flooded
and damaged from heavy rains on Monday, May 3, 2010. All
of the estimated 1,500 guests were evacuated overnight.
(AP Photo/The Tennessean, John Partipilo)
12. Michael Bunch wades on a flooded downtown sidewalk
in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday May 3, 2010. (Rusty
Russell/Getty Images)
13. Shipping containers float in floodwater Tuesday,
May 4, 2010, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
14. State vehicles sit stranded in a parking lot on May
4, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Rusty Russell/Getty
Images)
15. Floodwater from the Cumberland River creeps into
downtown Nashville, Tennessee, Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP
Photo/Jeff Roberson)
16. Residents remove flood debris from their homes Tuesday,
May 4, 2010, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
17. Gabe Gardiner, left, sits with a neighbor on his
living room sofa outside his flood damaged home in the
River Walk subdivision of in Nashville, Tennessee, Tuesday,
May 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Frederick Breedon)
18. People paddle canoes down a street in Nashville,
Tennessee, on Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
19. Lighthouse Christian School teacher Heather Harrell
reacts after finding her grandmother's Bible in her classroom
that was destroyed by the flood in Antioch, Tennessee
on Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Shelley
Mays)
20. An American flag hangs on a fence to dry as Lighthouse
Christian School student Noah Jackson,12, cleans debris
from his school athletic fields in Antioch, Tennessee
on Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Shelley
Mays)
21. Cars and other debris are piled on top of each other
after flooding on Antioch Pike near Nashville, Tennessee
on Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Shelley
Mays)
22. Kim Shaw and wife Jennie watch floodwaters from the
swollen Loosahatchie River encroach on their front lawn
in the Waverfly Farms area south of Millington, Tennessee,
Sunday, May 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Lance Murphey)
23. Messages are written on cabinets outside a home that
was flooded, Tuesday, May 4, 2010, in Nashville, Tennessee.
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
24. Clare Baker, right, hugs her friend, Melinda Murphy,
as Murphy leaves after helping Baker salvage items from
Baker's flood-damaged home on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 in
Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
25. Metro Fire Department Special Operation rescues a
Belle Meade police officer off Harding Road in Belle Meade,
Tennessee on Sunday May 2, 2010. Police officer Norm Shelton
was clinging to a tree for an hour before being rescued.
The location of his patrol car is unknown. (AP Photo/The
Tennessean, Shelley Mays)
26. A sign in River Front Park becomes visible once again
as the waters of the Cumberland River slowly started to
ebb across from LP Field, Tuesday, May 4, 2010, in Nashville,
Tennessee. (AP Photo/(M. Spencer Green)
27. A vehicle rests upside down in a sink hole which
opened on West Forest Avenue during heavy storms just
west of Madison County General Hospital on Saturday, May
1, 2010 in Jackson, Tennessee. The vehicle's driver was
rescued and taken to the hospital. (AP Photo/The Jackson
Sun, Morris Abernathy)
28. Kristi Hellerman walks her daughter Kallie Cox, 3,
through their flooded neighborhood near Pleasant Planes,
Saturday, May 1, 2010 in Jackson, Tennessee. (AP Photo/The
Jackson Sun, Beth Spain)
29. The roof of an SUV is just visible, submerged in
floodwaters covering downtown streets and sidewalks May
3, 2010 in the Lower Broad district of Nashville, Tennessee.
(Rusty Russell/Getty Images)
30. A flooded neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee, is
seen Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
31. Jennifer Coleman walks down a ditch where a car identified
by family members as belonging to Bill and Frankie Rutledge,
Coleman's aunt and uncle, was found Monday, May 3, 2010
in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Ed Rode)
32. Robert Turner describes the rapid rise of water in
his home May 4, 2010 in the Bordeaux district of Nashville,
Tennessee. (Rusty Russell/Getty Images)
33. Cars and trucks sit covered with debris as they wait
to be cleared from I-24 eastbound toward Murfreesboro,
Tennessee. The wooden structure to the left is the porch
of a building that floated down I-24 earlier according
to TDOT workers on the scene. (AP Photo/The Tennessean,
Tom Stanford)
34. A woman wades through floodwaters on a downtown sidewalk
May 3, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Rusty Russell/Getty
Images)
35.A Nashville Fire Department boat patrols the Cumberland
River Tuesday, May 4, 2010, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP
Photo/Jeff Roberson)
36. The inside of a water damaged car is seen in a severely
flooded West Nashville neighborhood on May 4, 2010 in
Nashville, Tennessee. (Jeff Gentner/Getty Images)
37. Carrie Johnson cleans photographs salvaged from the
flood-damaged home of her friend, Clare Baker, on Tuesday,
May 4, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
38. Dover Anthony sings on as he overlooks the parking
lot of submerged cars at the Knights Motel in East Nashville,
Sunday, May 2, 2010. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, John Partipilo)
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