For some, reality was not so great. Just see here what happened at the downtown Nashville TravelCenters of America location in these pictures. I rode my bike the couple miles there from where I live and the scene was just awe-inspiring, truly. The diesel fumes above the scene — mostly from reported leaks at the Marathon diesel terminals adjacent to the TA, and which I
Seeing it was also sad, truly. I think of it sort of like seeing your office underwater, that place you enjoy working in occasionally, though most of the time you’re in the truck, or elsewhere. If you’ve seen any of my videos from the past ni

For more of the rest of how it happened, and the snafus in trying to get some of the stranded drivers whose rigs you see
And re: the open question of whether any stranded drivers remained in the flooded trucks you see here, I’m hoping to get better info later on when I return to the scene for a follow-up. Here’s hoping all made it out OK.
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UPDATE: I spoke again with security man John Naff of the International Corporate Services firm, who confirmed what he suspected earlier — that no drivers were still in the cabs of the trucks you see in the video above. Good news. As for other news, not so good — in a good seven hours, the river had yet to recede much at all from the levels I witnessed earlier today.
As for the question of available diesel in the area, given the inundation of the tank farms here, which serve a large region of diesel outlets, when I was reporting the March Truckers News story mentioned above, about the cost breakdown of a diesel gallon, different sources referenced similar if not as extreme disruptions to Nashville-area diesel supply that was relatively easily supplemented by product from rack locations in the Louisville area. In any case, let’s hope that logic holds for the region.