Village Ct.
These photos show how one house can be severely impacted while another right next door had minimal damage, and the house two doors down had no damage.
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Lynn and Jerry install some drywall at a house on Village Ct, near LP Field
(where the Titans NFL football team plays). |
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| Maxine and Bernadette try to keep things somewhat "decent and in order" |
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| The house two doors away has this very elaborate garden and suffered no damage from the flood! |
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Exterior view of the Village Ct house.
The Cumberland River is just a block or so beyond the house. |
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| Bernadette bringing out a load of yucky stuff. |
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Maxine heads back in for more yucky stuff.
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| Yucky stuff. |
Todd Preis Rd.
Carol Anderson spent a good part of the afternoon knocking down this garden wall at a condo on Todd Preis Rd.
Berwick Trail
This location really tells the story about the extent of the flooding for homes right on the Cumberland River (the main river which winds through Nashville and Davidson County). As the pictures show, this house is raised such that the first floor is 8 feet above the surrounding yard. The house is also about the length of a football field away from the river, and the property slopes down considerably to reach the current river edge.
Furthermore, this house once stood only 4 feet above the surrounding yard, but after a major flood in 1976, during which the first flood had some water reach it, the house was raised another 4 feet to the current 8 foot elevation. Despite those precautions, when the river crested this past May, the water reached to the DOORKNOB level of the elevated first floor!
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| Elly and Maxine learning on the job...great job ladies! |
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| Placing drywall on the ceiling takes a great deal of care. |
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| This bedroom ceiling could be saved but the old paint had to be scraped away. |
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| Front of the house...flood waters reached to the door knob of the front door! |
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| Rear of the house....the waters reached to the door knob on the upper level. |
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| A view of the river, still quite a bit above the current river surface (note the neighbor's house boat). |
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| A view back to the house from the same location as the previous picture. |
Tuesday Breakfast and Devotion
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| A hearty breakfast to start the day! |
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| A grateful local resident stopped by to deliver several dozen donuts! |
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| Mel is making his lunch to take to the work site. |
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| Frantz and Fletcher anticipating the day ahead over breakfast. |
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| Tuesday would be a night on the town, so devotions were after breakfast. |
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| The cooks kept busy during the day, shopping and cleaning the kitchen. |
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