Life is good!: We are Nashville

So Chris and I spent the day Saturday trying to make our way through the flood. We left early in the morning for West TN for a wedding. Little did we know what was to come...

Though I-40 was already flooding on the way to the wedding, we didn't think much of it. Just a little water, right?? After a few hours there we decided to head home. Whew...that was an adventure! We are pretty sure that we were one of the last cars to make it through on I-40 before they closed it. How am I so sure of this??? Well, the Sheriff driving on the wrong side of the interstate coming head-on at us was a pretty good indicator. Our dear friends Courtney, Brandon, and Max were an hour behind us. What a difference and hour makes! We got home Saturday afternoon and they didn't make it home until Monday morning. Bless them!

After what seemed like years of swimming home, we made it in one piece and spent most of the remainder of the weekend at home taking in all the flooding tragedy and hoping to keep our own house dry. Chris and I know that we were VERY fortunate during the Great Flood to not have any damage.

I've never known so many people personally to lose everything. I'm so sad for all who lost their homes and loved ones. Only in the South do an elderly couple drown in a flood trying to get to church on Sunday. How heart-breaking!

Some feel as though The Great Flood didn't receive enough National news coverage. It definitely didn't, but it didn't for a reason. Only negative stories make the news and The Great Flood in Nashville was a story of neighbors helping neighbors and no looting or rioting in the chaos. It quickly turned from such a sad story to a positive one. I think because of this, we can all be so thankful to call such a wonderful place HOME! I know I am.

Here are some pics that we took of the flood. Some of our Nashville landmarks were some of the hardest hit. I don't have pics of those as I've tried to stay away from Ground Zero this week.