Nashville flood damage photo montage, accompanied by Johnny Cash

A YouTube user created this montage of images documenting flood damage in Tennessee, set to music by Johnny Cash. (via Todd Lappin)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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MrsBug

God bless…we moved back home to Michigan from Tennessee about 4 years ago. Lots of those places are familiar. Wow.
bobhughes

Thanks Xeni for the much-neded national exposure. And Thanks everyone for your support, prayers, thoughts and so forth. I’m lucky to be on a hill about 100 ft above the water table despite being about a minute away from percy priest lake. Thursday I’m going to be working phones at the red cross here. I don’t personally know anyone who’s lost more than a basement, but having spent most of my 30 years here this is the most depressing thing I’ve seen happen to our beautiful city. Most of the things that are still around that I’ve enjoyed most about this place are now underwater.

If anyone outside the affected region wants to help, hammer FEMA with emails or something and try to get Middle TN declared a federal disaster area. Everyone in the media is too concerned with the gulf spill (which is a bigger issue) and the tiems square failbomber to really worry much about us at all. For fuck’s sake, the nations largest non-casino hotel is underwater with 20+% of our city’s tax revenue drowning in it. Our city is on a fast track to becoming the nation’s next NOLA.
Random_Tangent

Sure am glad my sister and her husband bought a house on a hill. I can’t believe I didn’t hear about how bad the flooding was until this morning.
someofmyorange

Better video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCGz1vSh_M
MadMolecule

Some friends of mine evacuated their house, then went back the next day in a canoe. Apparently the water crested about one inch below their doors. Crawlspace flooded, everything else is fine. Wish everyone had been so lucky.
querent

Nashville (pronounced “Nash-ville”) is perhaps the most chill city I have ever spent time in within the US. God-bless, guys.
querent

Yikes, the Symphony Hall. And of course I meant to say, “God bless, ya’ll.”
ehamiter

I’m in west Nashville. We were stranded for three days because our one access road was under 8 feet of water. Our house is okay, but my neighbors didn’t get so lucky. I have a flickr set of some flood pics here:

http://bit.ly/floodof2010

We have power and our roads are clear so we’re more or less fine now. There’s talk that our water supply is going to run out, though, so rationing is starting to happen.