Flooding closes faire for sat and SUNDAY MAY 1-2

[renfairephotog]

  :(Due to the heavy rains and flooding the faire closed at 12:30. They gave people passes to come back.

[Hibernian]

Oh man, two years in a row. Need some stimulus money to build a dike or a wall or something. Good luck to everyone!

[renfairephotog]

That's not a bad idea. Of course if the county would let them build enclosed pubs the show could go on. They moved some pf the shows to the pub. The acts performed in the walk ways between benches. Some walls could have kept us dry.

[Lady Nicolette]

It's gotten a lot worse...They've now closed Highway 96 between the Festival and Franklin.  When we drove by on our way out, the fields were flooded up to the upper fence rails.  They've now closed portions of I-65 and are running both directions on just one side (not sure whether N/B or S/B) with over 4 feet of water standing according to news reports.

On a personal note, we came home to a dejavu of a few years ago, my fence got backed up on both ends of the French drain that runs the length and center of my property and flooding was happening in my back yard.  We had to break the fence gate to let the water out, break up a jam of loosened bricks underneath one of the bridges that crosses the French drain and it's now flowing OK again.  I had to run up to Home Depot to get shovels since we left all of my shovels at the Faire site!   On my way home from Home Depot we had a tornado warning, but I made it through all of the deep ponds OK and delivered the much-needed shovels.

Glad to be home with all of the boys and despite the mess having the water flowing down the proper channel in the yard again.  I have a feeling they may need to cancel the Faire tomorrow, since they're expecting more to come.

[Sir LJ]

FYI! This was up on Facebook!

Craig Merlin Broers has just been notified and UNOFFICIALLY passes on this message to his Facebook friends who intend to go to the TENNESSEE RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL Sunday: NO FAIRE. ["It's just no fair at all! At least not Tomorrow ... the decision has been made."]

[renfairephotog]

Tennessee Renaissance Festival We will not be open Sunday, May 2nd. Torrential rains and dangerous flooding continue. If you have purchased tickets for this weekend, including comps, they will be honored next weekend. Stay dry everyone!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tennessee-Renaissance-Festival/158507269959

[renfairephotog]

Wsmv NEWS

Nashville's Office of Emergency Management called for a partial activation of the Emergency Operations Center because of the severe weather.

Nashville's OEM staff is monitoring the developing weather situation and possible flood reports across Davidson County.

Davidson County residents/motorists are urged to stay off the roadways due to potential flooding, especially secondary roadways. The Antioch High School prom and Fairview High School prom have been canceled for Saturday.

Franklin police closed several roads around Cool Springs Galleria mall. Interstate 65 was closed just before Moores Lane in Franklin. Police report flood waters are reaching the entrances of several homes and businesses. Police advise residents to stay home and to not get out unless absolutely necessary.

Jeremy Heidt with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said the state's swift water action team were called to Williamson County to rescue a number of people from their homes due to rising flood waters.

At 3:15 p.m., the city of LaVergne was not allowing any cars into the city limits.


watch some of the slide shows.

[renfairephotog]

LaVergne is just east of I-24 between Murfreesboro ans Smyrna.  Smyrna is where the I-24 campgrounds are.


Word from Facebook parts of the campground are flooded. hope everyone is alright.

[renfairephotog]

more news

At 2:25 p.m., Doppler radar continued to indicate a tornado near Eagleville, 12 miles southeast of Franklin, moving east at 30 miles per hour.

The tornado was scheduled to be eight miles west of Murfreesboro at 2:45 p.m.

Along with the threat of severe storms and tornadoes throughout the weekend, there is the strong likelihood of flooding.

A flash flood watch is in effect for all of Middle Tennessee through Monday morning.  Parts of the area are under a flash flood warning.  A tornado watch is in effect until 4 p.m. Saturday.

-------Eagleville is where the tornado was in 97 that one of the few other times the festival  has closed.

[Sir Ironhead]

Really?  Are you serious?

Who's in charge of the weather, they need to be FIRED! 

[renfairephotog]

Full article at WKRN News 2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville Mayor Karl Dean is urging residents to stay home Saturday amid the worst flooding the city has seen in more than three decades.
Many of the area's interstates are underway and impassible. In southeast Davidson County, Interstate 24 west of Bell Road is shut down after nearly a dozen cars got caught in the floodwaters.
A Tennessee Department of Transportation camera showed the vehicles' occupants on the other side of the interstate median after being forced from their cars and SUVs. The vehicles in the westbound lanes, heading into Nashville, were literally bopping up and down in an estimated six feet of water.

A portable building from a local school could be seen floating down the interstate.



EDIT to add video http://www.wsmv.com/video/23380386/index.html


And then a car floated through it.

[Lady Nicolette]

It's incredibly scary out there.  I hope all of those who were at the Faire are home safely and that our Faire site does well in the meantime. 

I'm with Sir Ironhead on firing whoever came up with this weather plan!

[renfairephotog]

http://www.newschannel5.com/

[Ariyana the hugging wench]

Wow, suddenly so glad we stayed home afterall. I was bummed all day, especially when Cincinnati wasn't getting much in the way of rain. But the radars kept showing lots of bad stuff by faire so I tried to reason with myself that we were better off staying home. Now? I am sure we were better off staying home. I just hope all my friends who did go down are safe and dry, I am going to worry till everyone posts that they are home safely.

We were coming down courtesy of comp tickets only good this weekend. Did they say for sure they will honor those next weekend? Might start trying to make that happen, I can handle faire for Mother's day weekend lol. (hmm and ex is going to be here SAt so maybe he would watch the big kids Saturday night??  ;)hmmmm)

[Merlin]

Start driving now.... Scarby is open !