National Geographic September 2012 [antikvár]

cáse THE WEEKEND FORECAST FOR NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, CALLED FOR TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN. But by the afternoon of Saturday, May 1, 2010, parts of the city had seen more than six inches, and the rain was still coming down in sheets. Mayor Karl Dean was in the city's Emergency Communications Center monitoring the first reports of flash flooding when something on a TV screen caught his eye. It was a live shot of cars and trucks on Interstate 24 being swamped by a tributary of the Cumberland River southeast of the city. Floating past them in the slow lane was a 40-foot-long portable building from the Lighthouse Christian School. "We've got a building running into cars," the TV anchorman was saying. Dean had been in the "war room" for hours. But when he saw the