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Torrential rain and flash floods kill seven people in Nashville and middle Tennessee
At the end of March, record rainfall of more than seven inches over a two-day period caused flooding in middle Tennessee, including Nashville, leading to seven deaths.
Nashville’s highest two-day recorded rainfall began on Saturday, March 27 and ended only in the early hours of Palm Sunday, March 28. Emergency workers used boats to rescue some 100 people stranded by flood water that surrounded their vehicles and homes. According to media reports, dozens of other residents were rescued in the adjacent counties of Wilson, Williamson and Rutherford.
The National Weather Service received more than 250 reports of severe weather from East Texas to North Carolina, including 16 reports of tornadoes, 100 instances of damaging winds and nearly 140 reports of large hail.
Metro Police identify woman found dead near park after weekend flooding
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) Metro Police have identified a woman found dead after overnight flooding in Nashville on Sunday morning.
Police said 46-year-old Melissa Conquest and another man died near a wooded area close to Wentworth-Caldwell Park on Edmondson Pike just off Nolensville Pike. Police previously identified the man as 64-year-old Fredrick Richards.
According to Metro Police and Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, Conquest was one of four people who died due to the overnight flooding in Nashville.
Police said 65-year-old Douglas Hammond was found on the Nashboro Village golf course on Sunday morning after being swept away after getting out of his disabled car. Hammond’s car ran off the road and into a culvert on Flintlock Court near Nashboro Boulevard’s intersection. Metro Police said Hammond, who lived nearby, got out of the car, and the waters