Recovering From Unprecedented Flooding
Posted by Louis Belote on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 11:53am.The first weekend in May brought areas of Williamson and Davidson Counties over 13 inches of rain and tremendous flooding. The most significantly affected areas were parts of Williamson County and the Bellevue area in western Davidson County/Nashville along the Harpeth and Little Harpeth Rivers, and along the Cumberland River in the Downtown Nashville business district, and the Opryland, Opry House, and Opry Mills area. The devastation, as seen in person, is truly hard to believe. Many homes and businesses had well over 10 feet of water standing in them causing incredible damage. The water rose so fast that many people never had a chance to get anything out of their homes. As a result, homeowners have begun cleaning up by throwing away almost everything they owned. As I drove through the River Plantation neighborhood in Bellevue for example, there are 10 feet tall piles of the remains of homeowner's homes and personal property piled at the roadway for blocks waiting for removal by the city. Many of those homeowners are retired and on fixed incomes and have suffered devastating losses. FEMA maxes out their relief funds at $29,000 per household, and in many cases, that is nowhere near the cost of rebuilding many of these properties. The effort by local people to help the flood ravaged areas has been nothing short of incredible. Many high-profile members of the local music community banded together immediately to pitch in to help those affected as well as have performed for benefits to raise money for the local Community Foundation that supports those impacted. There have been at least two televised benefits that have each raised well in excess of $1,000,000 in a matter of a few hours! This area has not waited for the federal government to show up and be the ones to spear head the cleanup effort. The local community banded together immediately, even on the day the flooding was happening, to help the homeowners that were affected. As local residents, we have been proud of the way the community has responded and handled this situation in a proactive manner despite the lack of national attention it deserves and other simialr tragedies have received. This is an area of INDEPENDENT people that were the most affected. They do not sit around and wait for government assistance. They are motivated people who have worked, many of them, their entire lives, to be able to retire comfortably only to be hit by this tragedy. They are not used to being dependent on others to get by, but thankfully they live in a place where people's nature is to pitch in to help others in need! Let's hope the recovery is as quick as possible and these deserving people are able to resume their normal lives soon!
Louis Belote
Licensed Broker, GRI, CRS, e-Pro, SRF
Keller Williams Realty
9175 Carothers Parkway, Suiyte 110
Franklin, TN 37067
Direct Phone: (615) 804-9999
Office: (615) 778-1818
Fax: (615) 690-9620
www.WilliamsonCountyRealEstate.com
www.DavidsonCountyRealEstate.com
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