Cargo containers sit in floodwater in Nashville. The Cumberland River that has submerged parts of Nashville's historic downtown was expected to start receding Tuesday after being swollen by flash floods in creeks that feed into it. Jeff Roberson / AP Photo Opryland worker Jason Bowlin sits in a boat in the Opryland Hotel's flooded parking lot. Mark Humphrey / AP Photo Jonathan Rogers busts out a wall as he helps gut his brother-in-law's flood-damaged home. After a weekend of record rains and the resulting floods, residents are starting the recovery process. Mark Humphrey / AP Photo Lee Smith, a good samaritan, talks to his family on his cell phone while he helps evacuate flood victims at the Pecan Circle trailer park in Millington, Tennessee. Michael Desmond / Landov Airplanes are seen partially submerged in floodwater at the Cornelia Fort Airpark. Jeff Roberson / AP Photo A flooded neighborhood in Nashville. Mark Humphrey / AP Photo Dover Anthony sings and plays his guitar as he overlooks submerged cars in the Knights Motel parking lot in East Nashville. John Partipilo, The Tennessean / Zuma Press Britnie Turner stands on top of a submerged car as Nick Howell takes her picture. Mark Humphrey / AP Photo A tanker truck is pushed against trees after being washed away. Mark Humphrey / AP Photo Darius Jackson, 15, wades through chest-deep water after trying to reach his mother's ground-floor apartment in East Nashville's Maxwell Heights neighborhood. Les Neuhaus, Sipa Press / Newscom