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Nashville transit shut down due to flooding

 
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RailBus63
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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 10:37 am    Post subject: Nashville transit shut down due to flooding Reply with quote
Nashville MTA press release

At least it looks like they learned from the New Orleans RTA's miscues during Katrina and moved their buses to higher ground.
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HwyHaulier




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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
RailBus63 -

There is an odd irony to this. Sometime back, History Channel, had a series of various gloom and doom scenarios that could happen.
One of the episodes dealt with whatever would happen if a particular dam broke, well upstream from Nashville...

Looks as the area had an equivalent disaster with the extraordinary rains...

................Vern.................
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RailBus63
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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Still shut down on Tuesday.
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timecruncher



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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
They're supposed to be borrowing some of the Flxible Metros in our reserve fleet here at TARC. There are probably 15-20 good buses (slow, but operable) available. They apparently lost 39 buses in the flooding. Hate to hear that - Nashville's fleet is pristine.

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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh crap - I thought they had gotten all the buses safely moved to higher ground.
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