Residents in Nashville returns after floodwaters rush through
NASHVILLE, Ill. (KBSI) – Residents in Nashville, Illinois respond to the quick departure of the floodwaters after what one Nashville residents says was a historic flood.
Larry Boreup is an American Legion Officer. He says the city had never seen that much rainfall in one day.
“We’ve had three inch rains, four inch rains, five inch, but never eight to eight and a half inches in six hours,” said Boreup. “It was historic.”
Boreup says the flood caused dammage around the city included flooded basements and houses with up to six feet of water in people’s basements.
He says the dam did not break, but rather the spillway on the secondary dam did its job and let the water run over and eventually into the Mississippi River.
After many hours of flooded roads, including interstates, the floodwaters receded and opened up allowing traffic to once again flow through and allow others to clean up any messes from debris laying along the way.
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