Franklin Springs Family Media

What’s In A Name?

Monday, May 10, 2010

The CNN headline said it best a few days ago:  The Volunteer State Lives Up To Its Name.

What’s now being called a 500 or 1,000 year flood ravaged the Nashville area May 1st and 2nd.  But what’s emerged as the heart of the story has been the response of Tennesseans. 

This weekend, countless numbers of volunteers fanned out across the area, helping friends, families - and strangers.  As ferocious as the storm’s torrent was, the subsequent outpouring of generosity and compassion has been stronger.

One of the many casualties of a flood of this magnitude is fences.  Here’s a portion of fencing that fared fairly well, but the accumulation of debris from flood waters rendered many fences beyond repair.

The cleanup involves lots of hauling away…

For farms that rely on livestock for part or all of their livelihood, fencing is critical…

On one farm in Centerville, a group of volunteers got after it…

They measured twice and cut once…

They threw everything they could at the cleanup effort…

It was a multi-generational effort…

Gardens that were washed away got replanted…

And by the end of the day, one of countless damaged homesteads had benefited from the good-spirited contribution of Tennessee Volunteers…

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