jdc1 wrote:
Did they leave those dam gates closed AGAIN? This happened back in 2010 when my daughter lived there. She was lucky. She lived in Hendersonville, and most of her neighborhood had sewage back-ups.That was one stinky area for quite some time.
No, not an issue with the dams or water management. Just a lot of rain in a short time, on ground that was already wet.
An additional culprit is the insane amount of building and development that has gone on in Nashville recently. Water that previously would have been held in the ground in a wooded area is now running straight off that new parking lot or driveway or roof, and right into the area waterways.
This event was not as widespread as the 2010 flood, thank goodness.