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GUNN: ...I was coming home from the Bellevue Middle School Band Trip--we got in around 3 o’clock on Saturday morning, so we came in through the, the storm, actually coming in from St. Louis, and, as we arrived at the school, we were watching on our iphones and everything, the flooding that was goin’ on. And I really didn’t have a clear concept of, of what was actually happening until I was driving home, down Coley Davis Road, and realized that the soccer fields, which are a good, probably, 30 feet, from the road, below, um, the water had already reached up to the, to the road. And so I was driving my son and a neighbor child home, and said, ‘you know, guys, if it’s, if it keeps raining like this, we’re gonna be stuck back here for a while’--and, um, came home and went to sleep. And at 8:30 in the morning, I got a knock on the door from my property manager, who is, uh, that also lives in our neighborhood--I’m the president of the homeowner’s association--letting me know that they were pulling people out of the houses in the back of our neighborhood, in boats (laughs). So, I got up and, um, rushed out there to, just help ‘em--we have a lot of elderly people that live in our neighborhood, uh, that weren’t able to, um, physically move any of their furniture, to save it, and then, the railroad track that kind of goes behind our neighborhood, and follows the Harpeth River there, gave way, and so it just flooded most of the back of our neighborhood within minutes--three and four feet of water into everybody’s home. So, we were pulling people out in kayaks; um, we had a gentleman that had a boat in our neighborhood--and just trying to get the elderly people and as much stuff as we could out of their homes, during those first few hours. And I started to move people from home to home, and then, we ended up with about seven or eight people that stayed at our house, uh, until they could start the evacuation later in the day.... |
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