The Answer My Friend…
I can NOT believe it’s been ten years today since that Mighty Wind blew through Downtown Nashville. Geez. Has it really been that long? I guess so…#2 will be 10 years old in July. I was 6 months pregnant when it happened. I was right smack dab in the middle of that puppy. Anytime I see that Skycam video and see the building I was in, it gives me a bit o’shiver. You can see video here.
What I remember about that was going down the flights of stairs in this big building with insulation coming through the vents and the building shaking. I also remember how there was no plan in place for such an event because really, until that day, tornadoes were not supposed to be able to strike in Downtown-type areas. Pssht.
I also remember being highly pissed at my co-workers cause they all laughed at me all day cause I was a nervous wreck with all the starms and stuff going on. When I came to work that morning, there was a bad storm going through and the lightning was horrendous.
I distinctly remember passing St. Ann’s Episcopal Church that morning, as I did everyday and then later that night crying when I saw the video of that beautiful old church flattened. 
I also remember being stuck Downtown and not able to get out cause another one was coming. I hung out at the Hermitage Hotel with a bunch of drunks. Had I not been pregnant, I’d have probably joined in.
It was quite a day. One of those days you’re reminded that you never know how your life will change from one day to the next. It’s still amazing to me that there was only one fatality.
I remember that day very well! I also worked in Downtown Nashville and was 4 months pregnant. I also took cover in the basement of my office building. I remember looking up the stairwell and seeing the debris swirling outside the glass door facing 8th Street. After the storm, my co-workers and I went outside to find the streets looking like a war zone. My husband worked off Dickerson Pike and he stood in his parking lot and watched helplessly as the tornado headed straight for downtown. It took him several hours to get into downtown to get me. Talk about a crazy frightening day!
i was living in alabama then, we had our own f-5 that went from tuscaloosa passed b’ham, but jumped the city for some reason. i spent that weekend with nashville friends doing relief work, had planned on doing a habitat build in nashville the next weekend, but after the storms that week, we ended up in some backyards cutting trees. i often wonder now what part of east nashville i was actually in.
those were some crazy weeks. i remember too, driving up to nashville it wasn’t sunny weather either, we were looking out all sides of our pickup for tornado activity.