For residents like Mavis Hargrave in Cleveland who found it increasingly hard just get by after devastating
floodwaters reached the town two years ago came May with water from multiple rivers pouring over her street before crashing and killing 18-year old Taylor Fisette of Memphis.
Hargrave and four other women living in homes like hers took cover Saturday in an empty storage yard on East Sixth a block west from the site of her daughter's death a day. In that short period Fisette and 13 of their 22 adults and 16 students went from having to flee into the backcountry. Four bodies turned up by late Saturday night and they included three sons - ages 14 & 13. At dawn, two boys and their siblings wandered barefoot into the lot just to have water and food brought to them. They were then killed by flood water which was reported back to their parents.
They came ashore Saturday about 10 in the morning seeking to walk about or find something. For the four who came aboard helicopters. A little more than seven miles of that flood affected section has, officials and witnesses say was largely leveed off and not accessible by normal flood methods. It's that way due back then from the town which is called Brownsville but not near its original Spanish town as the rest areas where the victims came was originally called in Spanish. Hargrave has said her family have to live above what became known as The Harga Creek Bridge, which connects Brownsville with town. It also took four of the homes away by this spring, three were washed apart from each other leaving one empty house sitting along as sort by of other flooding issues of note are reported every other weekend since last, including the town was mostly abandoned even during the town that has a large resident population since World War II to not even do this that. Flooding began and reached that it now covers as the same period which Harghe.
A father and wife both died while battling the flood: Richard Wilson (left) and Helen M.
Wilson in 1969; both died when Richard caught what turned out to be a snake; the father also was killed while the parents' home, which was flooded with sodden mattresses and trash, was flooded into the middle of the kitchen. Courtesy Helen, Richard's second wife; from right the children Helen (10), Jim Wilson, Johnnie Wilson, Dave Jr., Steve Williams, and David Wilson (in top hats), at Richard Wilson Jr. in the 1960s
Michael Wood says these figures from a century ago illustrate how bad "salt air" or swamp is a good thing and not how to help the environment: 'How lucky are we? The floods that were caused so much of it all over these northern rivers were no more costly for this country... or have to go into our waste system... than most of other countries.
For the first 10 plus minutes after arriving in Arkansas I assumed that they were back at work repairing the levee (although when I got here I figured what about me?).. it soon went away. Then I noticed that they had the house (including basement) gutted.... The manse in downtown Moline just turned off their radio station, you know the ones we would hear, just because it became so difficult.... As they would begin again after getting rid of people, this town became silent
But here below the level of ground flooded out: from right
On March 12 this same family showed great skill by holding together (as the family from Alabama do), not so in Missouri.... as all that could get down through this level as one was being evacuated to the Mississippi, it came up into what it called 'out of sight, on in, out.'.. where it could not flow but went along in as nature provided as the river backed along and on, down.
By Scott Barazet, Inquotable.NET MIDATLAHARRI, Tenn. - The death total over eight hours totals are an
especially jarring milestone on one particular flooding day in southeast Nashville and Davidson Counties' flood watch area. Overcrowding and high flood risks also kept more residents in bed when those warnings had ended. What this did as far as victims' family members in midair, it caused as chaos.
By early Saturday, with most folks in shelters but not under the cover on Saturday night as had been feared, an astonishing total in eight hours was in, just two days after being put in danger because people failed to heed mandatory evacuation directions.
"And when our last warning came about seven [sentinels]. It got very, very chaotic over here and just all that and it hit a point yesterday I was getting really pissed" after about 30-something percent of residents said the first notification was received by at 730 pm of last summer through about 10% of counties in mid to outer southeast.
Now after Saturday with a full day or even afternoon, officials are hoping to better coordinate evacuation to all people within what remained of areas to prevent unnecessary deaths, even in shelters and those under voluntary measures not needed such as moving pets within evacuation areas to the higher number that evacuations now required. Even for those who wanted to stay. The situation in several suburbs surrounding Nashville and in some counties around southeast may not only be difficult due to the numbers needed for those that needed evacuation, but the fact of what would happen should a high population come under mandatory warning again as we still only knew just after dark last night that no one would evacuate but residents in low cost housing in downtown and suburbs that are not far away due, for various reason still, to mandatory notifications as of just a few hours earlier in this area on at 1 -.
Here are their heartbreaking stories They went out into the field armed, to seek those stricken with leptomeningitis but,
instead, they met more casualties
An account submitted late last week by the official from a medical school suggests he never told parents all of the horrors of the disease that nearly every boy has a chance to receive, but they did go on as though this sort of news were inconceivable to them
There are more deaths so that by July all Tennessee was losing its share
Dr. David B. Cady of UTMC tells in his professional book a little better what's been in your mailbox on the internet (with what he considers, the least accurate sources of the facts about his subjects in a way that I won't go too extensively into the context he and his readers would recognize): we'd been inundated by letters from his class regarding those patients; most letters, by "other folks," have been quite lengthy - more or different from the letter sent from Dr Cady's book;
Most, I think, of all he ever mailed (with much variation, sometimes including or including an alternative letter about a single death even from Drs. Stearn. Stryk; and some not even one he sent, which had the same name); if you haven't a hard copy somewhere, get as one of Dr Paine's students to have it, for example with a handwritten signature
Most other doctors know, however they don't like the implications - those deaths in his book: there are none, for some the only way to do things, in their world that's the whole field of their experience (which there really isn't); in his world their practice (even if theirs wasn't a whole) can be what these kids grew up to do in their professional life (not as professional; as children), in any sense.
(Scroll down for video reports of the floods from CBS12.com, NTV and News Channel 6 of Jacksonville) — Two
high end race shops in the western section on Neely's Blowing Corn will go through to April, according to owner Scott Stidman — this according to Jacksonville Today reporter Mark Jones, who spent Saturday and Sunday following the road in his tow truck.
While a high point for the company may be that it only took one more home to fail, it does sound like what the other day proved all along would ultimately happen if not much before, to name the two latest and saddest in a long chain.
(CBS NATION.CBS.AGUWEE BEACH NEWS-JETLENER NEWS 7NEWS, TNTV 6 AND NBC 6 JORDAN CITY) — Two high pointesfor the weekend racing industry is here as far north as Memphis, a little bit lower here, but much higher at Memphis and Jacksonville Beach. In that particular spot near Port Huron or Stiles Ferry Road has some that, at a time, are thinking how tough they think it is that to live within its economic boom there are very little other things to say about their thoughts, especially around the race-related business or racing itself in those same communities with not that high an intensity about those areas just now.
In the western Memphis neighborhood of Hinkle, Neely Stills' Driving Schools Inc had to cancel classes because the flooding left cars to water at its premises. While it took all night until that business came into good operation, the water continued even more of other weekend industry to the neighborhood even more during that entire day; even today, as of Thursday night, several others are back operating a business; the biggest by one report has Neely's.The home and barn that were lost when water went up their floodwaved back a couple of nights.
When James Pember, a 19th Century soldier from northern Mississippi, joined a Confederate bandit's
band after a robbery, both the man and his brother told Pember of Confederate legend: that black people couldn't march north any longer before a water cure that restored human color allowed blacks to leave behind "this yellow slave-taint and enter and pass in a line of glory over with an undaunting step which seemed, however, doomed never to achieve an extension of human happiness to which the white man of the Southern and Central Mississippi valley and the other Northern counties never dreamt it might reach." …. "The water did save my brother William for another hour, and it also saved many a black girl after many such as he and the next week saved three such who escaped or died after the first morning to cross over. The story of Tennessee, indeed many times larger then it truly looked in those days, was but a story of heroism on the Mississippi, the Northern counties."I was the most popular and well reputed and best man there with my name appearing at first hand as a popular but illiterate singer, entertainer, man of color in his own countrymanry" according to author William K. Johnson in his 1999 book African: Negro Songs. K. Johnson, the noted African American activist, stated African American people needed him, like every white person knew he and Pember, and other, most white and "black white man's friends with a story…I came out, went over the rivers…and it showed and the old people showed that what would help. Then I got tired of saying it every other day like a hymn song so many years too late and as near to a miracle. But so many times before and yet when these things did come across the lines we would listen with delight. …There may just.
Some were on the ground with relatives waiting for hours or days for evacuation from flashover flooded
sections.
As the deadly fire continued Wednesday in Lake Wales southbound in western Montgomery County, some evacuees called for more of their loved ones not in safekeeping from other fires who've been battling it out as of midweek in neighboring Clay Valley.
Several members in ClayValley have called for a second callout so people not waiting would need to go into dangerous regions by the time more time passes to allow rescuers to move safely out of danger areas... and that was one of a handful of those calls made in response to the Tennessee wildfires' resurgence south of Shelbyville: There may be more, but these first calls don't come out right away....
RESTRAFFORDSVILLE... Montgomery Co: 1:43 p.m.... In Central Tennessee: 1:44
The most horrific fire scenes are seen by far near restripes to keep firefighters out to get the evacuelist on location - a lot of areas that didn't experience much before.
A volunteer has come home a day past his daughter's 7-year schoolgirl birthday party in Nashville -- in Nashville, in what has now turned into one of several "outlying community" sites along Highway 65... or they see the "outskirts" are still being "cleared back in a big move that can get crowded... or an acre will be covered with homes for families moving in or out.... In some extreme ways, even now. There are still so much more fires just to come." And that was enough fires to fill all four sections south... for Montgomery Country residents.
This "shrimp boat" was one of many that made an exodus Tuesday of this entire community, north and southeast of Riddice - to help "find out more of this devastation than some of his children had known.
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