ApocaDocs: Tenn. officials brace for more flooding, deaths

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Posted Mon May 3 2010: from Associated Press:


	Tenn. officials brace for more flooding, deaths http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1272898976 About 1,500 guests of a downtown hotel complex spent the night in a high school to escape the flooding Cumberland River, which was expected to crest Monday following weekend thunderstorms that killed at least 19 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky... Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen called it an "unprecedented rain event," but that failed to capture the magnitude. More than 13 inches of rain fell in Nashville over two days, nearly doubling the previous record of 6.68 inches that fell in the wake of Hurricane Fredrick in 1979. "That is an astonishing amount of rain in a 24- or 36-hour period," Bredesen said Sunday. At least 11 were dead in Tennessee, six in Mississippi and two in Kentucky.

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'Doc Jim says:

I've seen fire and I've seen rain... but never quite like this!