So, yeah, um ... Nashville is under water.

The occasional hug would improve all of our lives, printy.

 

Cost of that hug on a presidential stop: $2.1 million.
Your tax assessment: 3 cents.
I guess it's worth it.

 

Let's not rebuild Nashville.

Live by the water, die by the water.

 

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/05/06/why-the-media-ignored-the-nashville-flood.aspx

 

FWIW, the FEMA head was in Nashville on Tuesday and again today.

A cabinet member is coming tomorrow (can't remember who; too tired to look it up).

I thought Anderson Cooper did a nice job last night using the Volunteer State theme to show how the locals are handling this disaster different than other locales' handled theirs.

 

Just a cool story.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100508/COLUMNIST0101/5080315

 

Another cool story -- Titans man up to help out. A lot.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100513/SPORTS01/5130358/Titans+go+into+city+to+clean

 

I've got to say - kind of disappointing reading stories about the Grand Ole Opry being underwater and people saying Hank Williams performed there. Hank performed at the Ryman, the new GOO was built long after he died. Haven't heard of water getting that far up Broadway to reach the Ryman.
Stay strong Nashville.

 

Damn.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-nashville-flood-20100514,0,4062198.story