# Nashvegas Dopers--Did you know that Nashville could flood like New Orleans ?

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**Created:** [November 2, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nashvegas-dopers-did-you-know-that-nashville-could-flood-like-new-orleans/378880 "2006-11-02T19:19:13Z")\
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Well!

This is interesting.

[http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/NEWS01/611020375](http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/NEWS01/611020375)

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> The potential for a catastrophic failure of the aging Wolf Creek Dam in Kentucky has many Middle Tennessee emergency planners mulling a Katrina-like scenario and preparing evacuation plans.
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> A break at the dam, where damp spots indicate growing seepage, could send the contents of the largest reservoir east of the Mississippi River roaring down the Cumberland River.

BTW–anybody wanna adopt a cat?