Nashville Flood Relief Telethon and how to get or give help to flood victims

[BirminghamExaminer]

Please see the article for links to where and how you can help, this is a dire situation:

Nashville's NBC affiliate, WSMV, will host a Flood Relief Telethon to help flood victims in the ongoing Tennessee flood disaster that has triggered emergency declarations in 21 counties with more expected to come. The only way to watch the telethon is on Nashville's Channel 4, or through live streaming on your computer's internet connection. Simply go to WSMV at 7:00 P.M. Central time to watch.

So far 19 people are dead from the catastrophic flooding in Tennessee and the number is expected to rise. In Nashville, the search is on for missing persons who disappeared in floodwaters as well as those who haven't been heard from by friends and family.

Earlier today, the Director of FEMA, Craig Fugate spoke before the camera in Nashville to answer questions and disseminate information. He said that since FEMA began accepting applications for emergency relief in Nashville over 8500 people had registered and said that that number is expected to rise quickly. Fugate said that the first response will be to the people who are in shelters in the form of renter's assistance.

Fugate said that normally FEMA would go through a process of counting and referencing in order to declare an area eligible for federal disaster assistance but that in the case of the Nashville flood, the need was "self-evident." Fugate said that since becoming Director of FEMA, the Nashville catastrophe was the most devastating event he had seen.

[Crabitha]

1. My brother's house was completely ruined in the flood.

I hope people will give to Red Cross or Hands on Nashville. They really need help. People in Nashville are telling me this is like Katrina with people still missing, houses still under water, etc.

[BirminghamExaminer]

2. Taylor Swift just donated $500,000 to Flood Relief in telethon

It's all over Twitter. Too bad we can't get national media to notice that Nashville is under water.