NASHVILLE IS UNDERWATER
May. 4th, 2010 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogI guess I should say something about my hometown, which is basically under water at the moment.
The good news is that everyone I know is okay and had the fortune of living on the right side of Old Hickory Dam. But obviously, others haven’t been nearly so lucky.
I’m assuming this is getting a lot of coverage in the states. I’m not sure how much. On the one hand, it’s a major flood with double-digit casualties in a major metropolitan area. On the other hand, it’s Nashville.
Still, CNN ran the floating schoolhouse on I-24. So I guess that’s something.
I admit, I don’t really know what to say about it myself. I guess the striking thing – apart from the surreal feeling that comes from seeing the streets of downtown filled with the Cumberland – is how so many people got caught in the flood waters because they waited until it was too late.
Because, see, I can completely understand why – natural disasters just don’t happen in Nashville, apart from the random tornado. And being located in a basin next to a river, we’ve seen flash floods before – but they’re usually minor.
So if I still lived there, I’d have shrugged it off too, and depending on where I lived, I’d probably be on the roof now trying to hitch a ride on a Jet Ski.
Anyway, this is easily the worst thing to hit Nashville in my lifetime (i.e. 44.5 years). Which just goes to show: all the bad stuff on the news doesn’t always happen Somewhere Else. So pay attention.
When the levee breaks,
This is dF
The good news is that everyone I know is okay and had the fortune of living on the right side of Old Hickory Dam. But obviously, others haven’t been nearly so lucky.
I’m assuming this is getting a lot of coverage in the states. I’m not sure how much. On the one hand, it’s a major flood with double-digit casualties in a major metropolitan area. On the other hand, it’s Nashville.
Still, CNN ran the floating schoolhouse on I-24. So I guess that’s something.
I admit, I don’t really know what to say about it myself. I guess the striking thing – apart from the surreal feeling that comes from seeing the streets of downtown filled with the Cumberland – is how so many people got caught in the flood waters because they waited until it was too late.
Because, see, I can completely understand why – natural disasters just don’t happen in Nashville, apart from the random tornado. And being located in a basin next to a river, we’ve seen flash floods before – but they’re usually minor.
So if I still lived there, I’d have shrugged it off too, and depending on where I lived, I’d probably be on the roof now trying to hitch a ride on a Jet Ski.
Anyway, this is easily the worst thing to hit Nashville in my lifetime (i.e. 44.5 years). Which just goes to show: all the bad stuff on the news doesn’t always happen Somewhere Else. So pay attention.
When the levee breaks,
This is dF
