The recently completed Pinnacle Tower in Nashville was surrounded by the overflowing Cumberland River. Forty feet of water filled the tower's subterranean garage.
First, Second, and Third Avenue lie completely underwater.
Swollen by three days of nearly continuos rain the Cumberland River roiled into the city like an unstoppable tide.
LP Field - home of the Tennessee Titans - was under several feet of water.
Even as water receded from street level damage remained in building's basement levels and the city's extensive subterranean network.
The basement of the three year-old Schermerhorn Symphony Center was flooded - destroying two concert grands, a pipe organ console, and mechanical and electrical damage to the tune of forty million. Reopening of this cultural, acoustic gem is projected for January 2011.
The sculpture, "Recording Angel", guards the stage entrance to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
All businesses on First Avenue were completely gutted by flood waters. Most would rebuild.
Downtown parking area.
The view down Second Avenue towards Broadway which is normally bustling with tourists.
Looking across the Cumberland towards LP Field - home of the Tennessee Titans.
The city-commissioned sculpture, "Ghost Ballet" stands partially submerged on the east bank of the Cumberland River.
A water level pole barely peaks out of the swollen Cumberland River.
Night falls on a city stunned by natural disaster.
