Flooding at the Grand Ole Opry

Hotel guests are evacuated out of the Opryland Hotel after hotel officials were concerned about the flooding in the area on Monday, May 3, 2010, in Nashville, Tenn.

All of about 1, 500 guests were evacuated overnight from the Opryland Hotel, northeast of the downtown area. Monday morning brought sunshine and a view of flooded parking lots around the hotel and adjacent venues. Water surrounded the Grand Ole Opry House and the Opry Mills shopping mall.

Credit: AP Photo/The Tennessean, John Partipilo