Bowling Green’s 1000 Year Flood Numbers

Over the weekend, many of you saw the flooding and resulting devastation across South Carolina from the incredible amount of rainfall they had. A trough of low pressure dug deep into the southeastern US, and caught a stream of higher moisture values off of Hurricane Joaquin. This trained over the same areas for hours, and […]

$100 Million Nashville Flood Protection Plan

On Wednesday, Mayor Karl Dean of Nashville unveiled a $100 million flood protection plan for the downtown area. After the devastating flood of May 2010 that dropped 14 inches of rain in Nashville, Dean views the protection plan as an “insurance policy”; he believes the cost to implement the plan is smaller than the cost […]