Date:         Wed, 5 May 2010 18:42:17 -0400
Reply-To:     Nat Wooding <nathani@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         Nat Wooding <nathani@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: OT: Nashville flooding and Opryland Hotel
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In the past 24 hours, I heard a news report that said that Riman (sp)
Auditorium and music row were not affected by the flood.

Nat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary" <mlhoward@AVALON.NET>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Nashville flooding and Opryland Hotel


> It looks very serious; could someone from Nashville verify how bad it is?
> Was downtown Nashville flooded or only the area around the Opryland Hotel?
> I live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that had its whole downtown and 10,000 houses
> flooded two years ago; it has taken a very long time to recover.
>
> -Mary
>
> --- RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM wrote:
>
> From: Mike Rhoads <RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM>
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      OT: Nashville flooding and Opryland Hotel
> Date:         Wed, 5 May 2010 11:12:30 -0400
>
> Some of you other veteran SAS folks will remember the SUGI conferences
> held in Nashville at the Opryland Hotel and resort complex in 1990 and
> 1998 - I attended both. The extent of the recent flooding in the Nashville
> area was brought home to me when I learned that portions of the hotel were
> under as much as 10 feet of water. All guests had to be evacuated, and the
> complex will be closed indefinitely.
>
> There's a longer story in the Tennesseean:
> http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100504/BUSINESS01/5040350/0/news01
>
>
> Mike Rhoads
> RhoadsM1@Westat.com