Storms, flooding complicate weekend

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It started raining around 7 p.m. Friday and didn’t let up until about 16 hours later.

And that wasn’t even the end of it; the line of storms packing torrential rain, hail and gusty winds then spawned swollen creeks and downed trees, which have kept many Brown Countians without power for more than 12 hours and/or trying to find creative ways to get around roads that have been flooded or washed out all over the county.

As of 3:30 p.m. Saturday, 717 SCI REMC customers, from every Brown County township but Van Buren, were still without lights, air conditioning and everything else electricity runs, and had been since 6 a.m. or earlier. Duke Energy was reporting 13 customers still out.

Along 46 West between Kelly Hill and town, part of the problem was visible: at least two large trees had fallen at some point, and though they’d been cleared from the road, power lines were still tangled in them on the ground.

In Nashville, though — served by Duke Energy — the sun shone brightly and the sidewalks were crawling with visitors slipping in and out of stores, as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening around the rest of the county.

Readers sent in the following photos of storm damage between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. today:

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