Carped.

[icepixie]

For your further flood-related edutainment: Someone caught a massive fish from floodwaters covering a road near south Nashville. It's insane enough that, from what I've been reading, he caught this four-foot-long fish with his bare hands. That he caught it in an area that hours earlier had been a road just blows my mind.

This blog post is a bit maudlin, but nice all the same. Considering that the waters haven't gone down enough to assess the damages yet, "costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history" seems somewhat premature, but I wouldn't be surprised if we find next week that it's true.* It does kind of suck that this particular event happened over a weekend on the heels of the mess that is the Gulf oil spill, not to mention the Times Square bomb thing; I've done some driveby viewing of CNN, MSNBC, etc., and found very little mention of it. Considering how much Nashville's economy relies on tourism dollars, and a good chunk of the tourist district is underwater, it's really, really, really gonna suck this season.


* Of course, inflation affects which disaster is "costliest" more than anything else, I'll wager.

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[icepixie]

Here's a good roundup of donation info. A lot of their links require people to be Nashville-based, such as the charities collecting bottled water or toiletries, or the volunteer orgs, but there are plenty of organizations accepting monetary donations as well.