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The May 2010 flood, that muddy, foul disaster, engulfed my family, my friends, my church and my neighbors. It stole days and weeks and months of their lives. It desecrated bronzed baby booties, children's toys, wedding albums. It scattered clothing and Christmas ornaments hither and yon. It swallowed businesses and schools. It strained relationships and it even snatched...
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  • The "Reserved for Student of the Week" sign in the parking lot of the Donelson Christian Academy is rapidly swallowed up by the rising flood waters of the Stones River on May 2, 2010, in Nashville, TN.





  • A home-owner walks out the kitchen door, through the mud and muck left by the flood waters of the Cumberland River.<br /> <br /> Image taken on Miami Avenue in the Donelson/Opryland area of Nashville, TN, on May 7, 2010.

  • A home owner on Miami, this woman stands in the doorway of her home surveying the disaster left after the flood waters of the Cumberland River returned to their banks.<br /> <br /> Image taken on Miami Avenue in the Donelson/Opryland area of Nashville, TN, on May 7, 2010.

  • Image taken on Miami Avenue in the Donelson/Opryland area of Nashville, TN, on May 7, 2010.<br /> <br /> An angel plaque still hangs from the door knob next to the smashed glass fragments that still remain after the flood...piles of belongings, soaked and already starting to smell, are seen in the background.

  • A child's green rain boot snuggles in the muck and mud with a Christmas ornament--a snowman figurine--in what was the garage of one of the homes on Miami. <br /> <br /> Image taken on Miami Avenue in the Donelson/Opryland area of Nashville, TN, on May 7, 2010.

  • Image taken after the May 2-3, 2010, flood in middle-Tennessee.

  • A flood survivor goes through his collection of collectible comic books--some of which were rare--noting how they have all become squishy after stewing in muddy flood water for weeks. <br /> <br /> Image taken after the May 2-3, 2010, flood in middle-Tennessee.

  • You know the file or folder or drawer--you have one, too--that spot where you tuck all of those contracts, papers, bills, receipts, etc., that come your way... Grandma sits on her front porch with all of the destruction/construction taking place around her, slowly and carefully peeling page from page to see what needs to be laid out to dry and what can be tossed.<br /> <br /> Image taken on Miami Avenue in the Donelson/Opryland area of Nashville, TN, on May 7, 2010.

  • A mother and two of her daughters look over one of many massive piles of debris on their street, leftovers from Tennessee's 500-year flood.<br /> <br /> Image taken after the May 2-3, 2010, flood in middle-Tennessee.

  • Debris Removal Trucks hit one of the previously flooded neighborhoods.<br /> <br /> Image taken after the May 2-3, 2010, flood in middle-Tennessee.

  • Huge boards spray-painted with their message lined the roads of the hard hit Donelson area in Nashville, Tennessee:<br /> "DO NOT REMOVE--Waiting on FEMA".<br /> <br /> Image taken after the May 2-3, 2010, flood in middle-Tennessee.

  • Image taken after the May 2-3, 2010, flood in middle-Tennessee.

  • Nashville, USA. May 14, 2010. Volunteers head for cover as storm clouds roll in over the flood-ravaged Miami Avenue neighborhood. Photo: Tamara Gentuso..Images taken twelve days after middle Tennessee's worst recorded flood on May 2, 2010, when from 13-18 inches of water fell within 36 hours, causing extensive flooding from the Cumberland and Stones Rivers, among other, as well as significant flash-flooding from numerous small creeks and rivers. Current estimates are $1.5 billion in damages.



  • A bronzed baby's bootie made its way down the Cumberland River to nestle on the banks near the Briley Parkway Bridge during Nashville's recent flooding...<br /> <br /> Image taken after Nashville's May 2010 flood.




  • Residents of Miami Avenue celebrated the one year anniversary of the flood with a blow-out they called Mudstock. All of those who had helped with recovery efforts there on the river were invited to attend.

  • The flood and recovery slideshow was a popular, if somber, spot during the celebration festivities of Mudstock down on Miami Avenue.

  • Casey Goddard hangs a sign--made from actual flood flotsam--to mark the route that he, Blake Storts and Scott took when they had to swim out of the neighborhood. With the river's waters having become too wild to navigate, they'd missed the last boat out. Forced to swim to the safety of the Briley Parkway bridge over the Cumberland, they nearly lost their lives swimming across a stretch of "river" we know as Pennington Bend.

  • An unidentified young girl watches the slideshow of flood and recovery images, spellbound as night falls on the Mudstock festivities.


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