Monday photos of the Clarksville flooding.

We got up early today and went downtown to see what had happened overnight.  UF-DA!!!  Major flooding and the water was still rising!!

Sunday - bridge high water marks

Monday - even higher

Sunday - road near our house (we are on the other side of the creek)

Monday

All the rest of the photos are along Riverside Drive between Commerce and N. Second St.

At Main St and Riverside Dr.

Looking north from the pedistrian bridge at College St.

And looking south.

Briggs Clothiers.  Thankfully our friend had moved earlier in the year!

Some Midas customers are NOT going to be happy!

Two Rivers office complex from the Sonic parking lot.

Arbys

Hooter's at Two Rivers.

Shoney's on North Second and Riverside.  The flow is from the Red River.

Intersection at Riverside-North 2nd-New Providence-Kraft St.

Hi-Lo on Riverside.

McD's on North Second.  They were moving things out while we were there.

This semi went over to the flooding motels and helped people get their cars moved!

Service bay at a car dealership next to Sonic.

Harbor Freight Tools in the Two Rivers complex.

O'Charlies

New China

Tire shop next to O'Charlie's.  Waste Management was trying to round-up their dumpsters.

Nothing they could do but watch.

River near our house.

Tennessee Flood Outside Our Door

Perhaps you've seen on TV the news of the flooding in middle Tennessee. That's right where we are.

Our home has had about (guessing) 10-12 inches in the last 2 days. While we are on the Cumberland River, we are on the high side of it and look across at the flood plain. So it's been no real problem except for some gullies cut in our driveway. Minor stuff.

Here's an autumn photo of the river as seen from our deck. You can see how high the flood plain is from the river bed. 

And here is the same view with the flooding. That ridge of rock is the top of the bank!  

Here's another view from the other side of the valley from our house. 

 We left for church early to drive thru downtown to see how it was there. This is big turn-bridge on Riverside Drive. It is usually at least 10 feet lower.

And here's a closer shot about 5 hours later. 

Still rising. 

On Riverside Drive looking south at the "smokestacks".  

A car dealership on Riverside. He was moving his cars out of the lot.  

The back of the Riverside Conference Center. Just past it is the Ingram sand lot. The water was already over the bank there and into the property. 

The entrance of the old Fairground/soon to be marina. As we went by there were a group of men huddled up talking and pointing... 

...at their equipment down near the river that would soon be underwater! (Taken from the Zinc Plant bridge). The park was almost completely flooded. 

This is the parking lot in the back of the old Two Rivers mall. When we had gone thru 5 hours earlier the water was just at the edge of the parking lot. Now it is over a full parking row.  

Himself at a popular fishing area on the backside of Clarksville Base on Ft. Campbell. We've never seen the water over the bridge...never mind that far up the road!  

The picnic area of Lake Taal on Ft. Campbell (behind the stables). Check out the logs that had floated in! 

 The park from the top of the Lake Taal spillway. That is normally a nice little creek.

Flood waters tearing over the spillway. 

Not today...

May Renovation: Front Porch (Before)

It's not really a "porch". My grandmother would have called it a "stoop". But whatever you call it... it needs help! 

 I love my front door. We had that put in shortly after we moved in. The wood is walnut.

 From ground to top the porch is 20 inches high. The first step up is 8 inches, the second is 12!!! Seriously!! What were they thinking?

 A good power washing is in its future...

This little table just does not work. I'm thinking something with a bit of height would be nice. (The old boots are going to be repurposed as bird houses.) 

And this has to be hid! 

The lights stay but I've got to get that pollen cleaned off. We installed these shortly after we moved in. This style is the direction I want to go with the house. 

The fossil stays too but I want to make it a nice accent. (BTW, it is a Lithostrotion collected in Montgomery Co., TN. We have a lot of these around here, tho not usually this big. We have our 'secret' location where we can find these grand daddy corals.)

I'm not going to do too much, because in the future we are going to build on a nice full porch. But I want to make my entrance attractive and welcoming.

May Goals - Curb Appeal

Our property is large... over 5 acres, with about 2 acres of cleared land that is considered to be the "yard". I use the term "yard" loosely because it's closer to being pasture than yard.

Very little landscaping or care has been done, so we are playing a bit of catch up. There's a lot of work to be done. I messed around a bit last year but didn't do much as I wanted to see what I'd be dealing with thru every season. Early work included widening the driveway entrance and enlarging the upper parking area (where guest park). Ripping out a lot of overgrown shrubs that had been planted in areas far too small for their mature growth. Planting my daylilies, irises and daffodils. Laying out some mulch.

Other than that, I've been doing a lot of planning.

Now it's time to put some of those plans into action before the HOT Tennessee summer hits.

Because I don't do "hot".

We are going to work on is our 'curb appeal'. Whatever one sees from when they pull into our drive and continuing all the way up to our front porch. This will include:


the mail box area,

the driveway itself,

the areas immediately around the north...

and east side of the house (that is where the butterfly garden will be)

and finally this front area and the porch/stoop.