NPSA Helps Flood Victims

As flood waters continued to recede in Tennessee, volunteers rushed to the scene to help clean up a devastated Nashville. One organization, Hands On Nashville, was overseeing 12,000 volunteers while Volunteer Tennessee was taking emergency donations to help families whose homes were destroyed by the floodwaters and celebrities are donating monies to help victims.  

According to the Army Corps of Engineers, the flood that hit Nashville was a 1,000-year flood, which means it was an event that could be expected to happen once in every 1,000 years. The Army Corps of Engineers has said the flash nature of the flood made damages unavoidable. Downtown Nashville has a small advantage because of topography, but flooding has also damaged the city’s core.  

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Tennessee who are affected by the 1,000-year flood,” says John Finnessy, CMP, Executive Director of the NPSA, a nonprofit membership association dedicated to the advancement of the portable storage industry. “The NPSA is encouraging our members to donate portable storage units to charitable organizations that can use the containers to help people in the midst of this crisis.”