NASHVILL, TN (KTVI-FOX2now.com) -
It could take one billion dollars to clean up Nashville after massive floods but some of the items and memories lost are priceless. If we remember anything from 1993 here in St. Louis, its that a flood is the kind of natural disaster that touches every segment of a community it hits. When flooding hit Nashville it hit the music.
We watched water being pumped in downtown Nashville, and that was hardly an unusual sight. What people worried about in music city was where so much of this water was coming from. The Country Music Hall of fame is home to some of the industry's greatest artifacts, and people were nervous.
In this case, history was saved by loyal workers at the hall of fame. Everything from awards, to Hank William's squirrel statue survived. Only the museums basement theater took a hit. Pieces of the floor and the seating were hauled out onto a downtown sidewalk.
Nashville's most famous landmark, The Grand Ole' Opry, has taken the most high profile hit. The show will be on the road for sometime because the Opry house is damaged. Employees there tell News 11 both valuable instruments and decades worth of sheet music have been destroyed. Even the state's governor is talking about country music's palace.
"They've relocated kind of back downtown here from where they went 30 or 40 years ago. So they're going to keep going and broadcasting, but the old Opry hall that people have seen has had a lot of water in it, lot of water around it and a lot of cleanup to do in that whole area. "said - Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen
They say it will be months at least before the Opryland hotel and the Opry house itself re-open. Other places suffering damage include Nashville's symphony center, and the Gibson guitar factory.
We watched water being pumped in downtown Nashville, and that was hardly an unusual sight. What people worried about in music city was where so much of this water was coming from. The Country Music Hall of fame is home to some of the industry's greatest artifacts, and people were nervous.
In this case, history was saved by loyal workers at the hall of fame. Everything from awards, to Hank William's squirrel statue survived. Only the museums basement theater took a hit. Pieces of the floor and the seating were hauled out onto a downtown sidewalk.
Nashville's most famous landmark, The Grand Ole' Opry, has taken the most high profile hit. The show will be on the road for sometime because the Opry house is damaged. Employees there tell News 11 both valuable instruments and decades worth of sheet music have been destroyed. Even the state's governor is talking about country music's palace.
"They've relocated kind of back downtown here from where they went 30 or 40 years ago. So they're going to keep going and broadcasting, but the old Opry hall that people have seen has had a lot of water in it, lot of water around it and a lot of cleanup to do in that whole area. "said - Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen
They say it will be months at least before the Opryland hotel and the Opry house itself re-open. Other places suffering damage include Nashville's symphony center, and the Gibson guitar factory.
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