Tornado Damage from March 3rd storm

[smeagolsfree]

Glad DJ is good too. I had forgotten he lives over there. Thanks for the pix Craig. I may try and get over there tomorror if they let me in to help my friend that lives off of 13th and Holly. She will need help cleaning her yard up. She said power and gas will likely be out for days if not weeks.

 

[KJHburg]

I am so sorry to hear about these tornados across middle Tennesse.  As you might know my niece lives there SE of downtown and last night I happened to wake up and looked at Twitter and I saw Jim Cantore tweeting about it.  Prayers for the families for who lost lives and their homes and businesses.   I happend to be in Dallas last fall when a F3 tornado raced across the north Dallas suburbs leaving a 10-15 mile path of destruction luckily no one lost their lives.  This is the worst kind rain wrapped tornados in middle of night. 

My very first visit to Nashville was after the 1998 tornado that blew out the windows of the state capitol.   It will be a long hard road to recovery as it will take time to rebuild and get insurance monies and so forth and 6 months after the Dallas tornado they are still working on the homes and some schools there were closed for the next year.  But stay on and people will need help when the media moves on so thing long term recovery.  

 

[KJHburg]

Help is on its way from NC don't you worry.

 

[Binbin98]

I don't mean to be insensitive but what impact do you guys think this storm will have on development in both East Nashville/Germantown and Nashville as a whole? I remember after the flood happened, the growth in Nashville really started to pick up steam due to a number of factors. Will this storm scare people and developers away from Nashville? Or will it be yet another catalyst for more growth and attention.

 

May the people that lost their lives find peace

[Urban_Legend]

Here's some photos of my church on 16th & Holly, The Church at Lockeland Springs. The top of the historic tower fell off, as wells as portions of the roof. Also, you can see one of the huge trees got uprooted (not sure if the other large tree is salvageable). I haven't heard if there's any interior damage or not. The church members are ok, and working on relief efforts for the neighborhood, as well as our own rebuilding efforts. 

I live in the Pennington Bend area of Donelson, and we didn't even lose power. Just had really bad hail. 

 

[markhollin]

Five Points brought low by tornado, but vows to rebuild:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/03/03/five-points-brought-low-by-tornado-but-vows-to.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

Extensive slide show at Nashville Post:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/03/03/five-points-brought-low-by-tornado-but-vows-to.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

Rolling reports/timeline of activities and large slide show at The Tennessean:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/03/03/five-points-brought-low-by-tornado-but-vows-to.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

Done footage of North Nashville:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/03/03/nashville-tornados-path-destruction-visible-drone-footage/4940008002/

[NashRugger]

21 minutes ago, Binbin98 said:

I don't mean to be insensitive but what impact do you guys think this storm will have on development in both East Nashville/Germantown and Nashville as a whole? I remember after the flood happened, the growth in Nashville really started to pick up steam due to a number of factors. Will this storm scare people and developers away from Nashville? Or will it be yet another catalyst for more growth and attention.

 

May the people that lost their lives find peace

I say a catalyst, because for East Nashville in particular, things are marked as before and after the tornado in 1998. 

[grilled_cheese]

 

[Sean blackdog]

Update.  Death tolls risen 23.  

[billgregg]

(1) The former Family Dollar on Woodland, now conveniently cleared for redevelopment.

(2) The back of Burger Up.

(3) Downed trees on Newhall Dr.

(4) Bulldozer fodder. Newhall Ct.

(5) Was a two-story. Newhall Ct.

(6) One of two downed transmission towers on Riverside Dr.

(7) Damaged house on Brittany Dr.

[downtownresident]

EF ratings from today’s survey: 

 

[bnacincy]

Love and prayers to all affected from the Great Ohio Valley.....

Wish I could be there to help out.

[smeagolsfree]

Mark, have you touched base with NashvilleCliff. He is also in the East Nashville area as well.

[Sean blackdog]

Update.  Death tolls risen 25.   
19 fatalities and 75 hurt in Putnam County
3 fatalities and 1 hurt in Wilson County
2 fatalities and 156 hurt in Davidson County
1 fatality in Benton County

Edited March 3, 2020 by Sean blackdog

[donNdonelson2]

4 hours ago, archilove said:

Germantown, one of my favorite Nashville neighborhoods, took a big hit. I don't want to drive over there and get in the way, but would like to know about damage, especially on 5th, 6th, and 7th avenues between Madison and Monroe. How did places like Tempered Chocolate, Germantown Cafe, Cathedral of the Assumption. Monell's, Germantown Inn,  the houses at the corners of 6th and Monroe, the former Mad Platter building, and the houses at 1315 and 1317 5th Avenue fare?

A Facebook post from one of the owners of Monell’s (Michael King) indicates that their building did not suffer any damage.

[titanhog]

You guys have got to see this video that the Amazon crane operator shot last night.  He was stuck in the crane as the tornado hit (and probably crapped his pants!).  BTW...bad language.  (if someone knows how to post a facebook video...please feel free to do that with this one)

https://www.facebook.com/jason.nash.509/videos/1908544665957154/?eid=ARBJ1tH9LrQZxDE23cLybonfTZ4gMKtIL0VhyEi6rXDuUNGAThoWexMIVOclquZOuyo8hwrxFP4SdgtT

[smeagolsfree]

2 minutes ago, titanhog said:

You guys have got to see this video that the Amazon crane operator shot last night.  He was stuck in the crane as the tornado hit (and probably crapped his pants!).  BTW...bad language.  (if someone knows how to post a facebook video...please feel free to do that with this one)

https://www.facebook.com/jason.nash.509/videos/1908544665957154/?eid=ARBJ1tH9LrQZxDE23cLybonfTZ4gMKtIL0VhyEi6rXDuUNGAThoWexMIVOclquZOuyo8hwrxFP4SdgtT

Im sorry, I had to laugh. It was sort of comical. Why would you be in a crane at 12:30 AM with a severe storm rolling in, when the cranes are supposed to be free swinging due to the wind.

I will have to say this guy is not too bright.

[titanhog]

2 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

Im sorry, I had to laugh. It was sort of comical. Why would you be in a crane at 12:30 AM with a severe storm rolling in, when the cranes are supposed to be free swinging due to the wind.

I will have to say this guy is not too bright.

yeah....I couldn't believe he was in that crane!

[Binbin98]

I saw some stupid article like two days before this storm hit about the love for Nashville fading away and the love for another city close by growing. I can say with 100% certainty now that this article was completely false, especially now after the storm I have seen nothing but love and support across the country and globe on the internet for Nashville. Even at my school in New York people are expressing their support. Nashville is strong

[dxfret]

47 minutes ago, Binbin98 said:

I saw some stupid article like two days before this storm hit about the love for Nashville fading away and the love for another city close by growing. I can say with 100% certainty now that this article was completely false, especially now after the storm I have seen nothing but love and support across the country and globe on the internet for Nashville. Even at my school in New York people are expressing their support. Nashville is strong

Valuable to know that someone is tracking the pulse of the city from afar and across the internet, and with 100% certainty.  Nashville is strong!

[MLBrumby]

All network news programs this evening led with the Nashville tornado... and even special from Cookeville on one of them. 

[chris holman]

[AsianintheNations]

Glad to hear that you all are safe. My place is fortunately just south of the early path of the tornado, and we never lost power, water, or cell phone service. Just up the street at Centennial and Briley was (and is, as of last check) completely blockaded, and the semis are having to circle around onto I-40 to get to the industrial destinations surrounding The Nations. I drove to Germantown this morning to help a friend get to work and the damage was shocking. Also ended up pretty much boxed in with the street closures, took an hour to get out via Bordeaux and saw a lot of damage through North Nashville as well (during a slow crawl, suboptimally winging it based on my memory of the road layouts since my cell phone reception was really spotty). I hope they can clear a couple of the north-south streets so there are more ways to cross the tornado's path (I-65 and 155 were the only options this morning). It was definitely tough being short-handed at the hospital today with many unable to complete the commute in, and early on they were asking all hospital employees with a free moment to help out with tasks like delivering meals and transporting patients. Ideally, we can not only rebuild but also improve upon things going forward, like burying some of the power lines (longshot I know) and having better preparedness for how to disseminate information about road closures, direct traffic (some of the police were great at it ... others were worse than just treating the intersection as a three-way stop sign), etc.

[titanhog]

^^Yes...the crazy amount of criss-crossing power lines in the city really becomes obvious when a tornado comes through and tosses them all to the ground.  Some of the photos I saw, they were almost like cobwebs strewn across the ground, cars, etc.

[BnaBreaker]

1 hour ago, titanhog said:

^^Yes...the crazy amount of criss-crossing power lines in the city really becomes obvious when a tornado comes through and tosses them all to the ground.  Some of the photos I saw, they were almost like cobwebs strewn across the ground, cars, etc.

Obviously at a time like this, burying power lines is pretty far down the list of importance, but if there were ever a time that we could get legislation on that passed, it would probably be after a disaster such as this, because the drawbacks of having exposed power lines are wholly evident and fresh in everyone's mind.  The benefits of burying power lines go far beyond mere aesthetics, as we all know.

Edited March 4, 2020 by BnaBreaker