Okay, who did the rain dance too many times?

[icepixie]

So. Obviously May is a bad month for Tennessee. Nashville got a 500-year flood last year on May 1, and Memphis/pretty much the entire western border of the state is apparently going to get hit with one tomorrow. Is the Tennessee River going to wash away Knoxville and/or Chattanooga next spring?

(This is not to even mention the giant tornadoes that mostly were confined to Alabama, but also wandered into the southeastern portion of the state last week. Sheesh. Mother Nature, what did my region ever do to you?)

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[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Obviously May is a bad month for Tennessee.

daaaaaaaaang. At least it's not you guys again this year.

Is the Tennessee River going to wash away Knoxville and/or Chattanooga next spring?

My mom's car was literally totaled by golf-ball-sized hail last month. How does that even happen? (Well, other than having a crappy old car to begin with.) And she can't find a decent used car to replace it, because every car in every sales lot got just as banged up as hers.

[icepixie]

At least it's not you guys again this year.

So far, anyway. I have noticed that even the Weather Channel's website is verrrrry quick on the flood warnings now, though. And they also do a lot of, "THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE LIKE LAST YEAR'S FLOOD DON'T PANIC...but if you live right next to these creeks, you might want to put your valuables up high."

How does that even happen?

Weird. How does that even happen?

because every car in every sales lot got just as banged up as hers.

Awwwwwwww.

[wildtiger7.livejournal.com]

TEXAS. SEND IT TO TEXAS.

Ahem.

[icepixie]

I'm sure Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana would all gladly do so! *waves water your way*

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Gah. I hope your family and friends in the region are all okay.

[icepixie]

Thanks. We're fine; the Mississippi River, where the flooding is going on, is about 200 miles away from me, and everyone I know down here lives in the middle or eastern portions of the state. Hopefully we won't get any of their rain...

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

"THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE LIKE LAST YEAR'S FLOOD DON'T PANIC...but if you live right next to these creeks, you might want to put your valuables up high."

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Weird. How does that even happen?

The minivan's almost twenty years old, and not terribly well maintained, so I'm guessing the value of the car is a couple thousand, tops. The windshield got smashed, plus a side mirror, and big dents on the hood and roof... yeah, I could see repair costs being over a thousand.