Severe flooding in Nashville Tennessee over the weekend is causing headaches and heartache for many in the city, including staff and guests of the Grand Opryland Hotel. The hotel, where RWA is scheduled to host their national conference in July 2010, sits near the banks of the Cumberland River.

The levees protecting the hotel and conference center were breached early Monday morning according to reports. You can see a photograph of the flooding damage to the parking lot and hotel wings here. Follow #rwa10 on twitter for more information. Twitter users are reporting 6 feet of water in the hotel lobby. (See the hotel and conference center on Google Maps.)

The reports also indicate that the hotel will be closed for several months, which may put the RWA conference in jeopardy. The hotel has said they’re currently looking at the hotel and the conference schedule so hopefully there will be more new soon. So stay tuned.

Update: Flood waters in Lobby (what that photo doesn’t show you is the incredible water features in this room, the dozens of fish and thousands of plants. There’s also a restaurant on the left – all the chairs and a bar on the right that has a rotating platform.)

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