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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[softstepshoes.livejournal.com]

Aieee! I was sitting in the airport going, "WHY IS TENNESSEE UNDERWATER?? WHY ARE THEY TRYING TO BLOW UP TIMES SQUARE??? WHO'S PUTTING OIL IN THE GULF???? AHHHHHHHHHH!"

Glad you're still relatively dry. But yeah, tourism=no. Unless they wanted to scuba to some country music. Are your parents ok?

[icepixie]

It has been an exceptionally news-packed few days, hasn't it? (And oooh, where were you going/coming back from?)

Unless they wanted to scuba to some country music.

...Someone is out trying to make that a reality right now, I just know it.

Are your parents ok?

They're fine. Benefit of living on high ground. Dad said a little water came into one of our sheds, but didn't damage anything. Their neighborhood was an island for about a day, though, from what I could tell online. I looked at the list of road closures and kind of went, "Uhhhh, that's basically a triangle surrounding the house. Not good."

[munditia.livejournal.com]

Oh, these poor, poor people. Is there any information on relief efforts / local charities to donate to making the rounds on LJ?

[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.