NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WMOT) -- This week marks the seventh anniversary of the spring 2010 Tennessee floods.
Twenty-two people died and the storms caused billions in damages.
Harding and Jona Brewster used an old boat stored in their backyard to ferry themselves and dozens of neighbors out of their rapidly flooding Old Hickory neighborhood.
Harding Brewster recalls how some contractors preyed on storm survivors.
“I call it like it was a circus…they came through here. They had all these pretty colored trucks and stuff and they would try to get you to sign and they were real silk tongued, yah know.”
Many of their neighbors never returned, but the Brewsters stayed. They put that old boat back behind the house just in case.