Re: The Nashville, TN Flood
Way back when, Hurricane Hugo came through South Carolina and messed up everything. We lived over 150 miles from the coast as the crow flies, and it was still packing 90 mph winds when it came through town. There had been a whole lot of rain before that and the ground was saturated and soft. So, the winds pushed over almost every tree. Trees fell on houses, across power lines.
Yeah, people were killed, more in the recovery effort than during the storm. Mostly people killed by downed powerlines. It's on the ground, but you don't know if it's live or not by looking at it. That, and amateurs trying to cut trees limbs with chainsaws. And heart attacks from over-exertion, etc.
The power was off at our house for over two weeks. We heard a rumor that there was some major national news coverage about it. But go figure- we couldn't watch because the power was off. By the time power was restored, there was more new news on TV. So we never got to "see" our own plight. We simply had to live it.
Way back when, Hurricane Hugo came through South Carolina and messed up everything. We lived over 150 miles from the coast as the crow flies, and it was still packing 90 mph winds when it came through town. There had been a whole lot of rain before that and the ground was saturated and soft. So, the winds pushed over almost every tree. Trees fell on houses, across power lines.
Yeah, people were killed, more in the recovery effort than during the storm. Mostly people killed by downed powerlines. It's on the ground, but you don't know if it's live or not by looking at it. That, and amateurs trying to cut trees limbs with chainsaws. And heart attacks from over-exertion, etc.
The power was off at our house for over two weeks. We heard a rumor that there was some major national news coverage about it. But go figure- we couldn't watch because the power was off. By the time power was restored, there was more new news on TV. So we never got to "see" our own plight. We simply had to live it.
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