Nashville flood...

[walldude]

I talked to a guy on my work crew today. His wife worked at the Opry Mills Mall in Nashville. She was laid off today indefinitely while they try to rebuild the mall. Another friend at work lost his house and had no insurance. Lost homes, jobs, businesses, I know there are many other important things going on right now but I'd like to remind people that people in Nashville are still struggling to recover from this major disaster.

This link has links to where you can donate to help if you have anything you can spare.

http://nashvillest.com/2010/05/03/so-nashville-is-flooded-how-can-i-help/

[RT Atlanta]

1. K&R for Nashvegas

n/t

[lamp_shade]

2. Did you see this video? It'll tug at your heart.

My brother just sent it to me a short time ago > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pFjaQoOdJvI

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. The most expensive non hurricane disaster in US history?

I doubt it will end up costing more than the spill in the Gulf.

[dchill]

3. K & R for this reminder.

:thumbsup:

[madrchsod]

4. thanks for the reminder.....

[KamaAina]

5. Why does God hate malls so much?

This one, in Rhode Island, flooded out in February.

[thecrow]

6. My ex is in Tennesse doing disaster relief business

He is with an arm of the SBA. They are sorta first responders to any natural disaster,
He goes in and does what he can to get businesses up and running again, gets federal aid
in there and helps families file their claims.
He is staying in Memphis.

[Renew Deal]

7. The field at that stadium is below ground

And it became a pool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djJcj4s1oeI

[walldude]

9. It was amazing how fast the water rose...

I live near Denver but work out of Nashville, I was there when the flood came. We went to our shop on Sunday when the water started to rise, it' not far from LP field. The road in was closed so we had to wade through the water for about a mile to get in. When we got there the parking lot was about 3 feet deep. We spent about 2 hours putting the most important stuff up as high as we could. When we left the parking lot was at about 6 feet, we literally had to swim out.. . By Monday morning the entire building was underwater. it had to be 25-30 feet deep. Never seen anything like it up close. You see pictures sometimes but they just can't tell the real story...

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, walldude.

[onestepforward]

10. K&R

[beam me up scottie]

11. The vast majority of people didn't have flood insurance.

And it's not just Nashville, over 50 counties have been declared disaster areas.

The fauna was and is still being affected as well, I went kayaking in the Green River basin last week and they don't expect water levels to return to normal until late July.

If we're lucky.

[Old Troop]

12. Why has the MSM paid so little attention?

[taterguy]

13. Because there weren't many deaths

If it bleeds, it leads.

[Uncle Joe]

15. More people died in Middle Tennessee than the Gulf or the third rate firework bomb attempt

in New York.

[beam me up scottie]

17. Thank you. One victim is still missing.

One man remains missing nearly three weeks since the flooding crisis hit. The family of 39-year-old Danny Tomlinson thinks more eyes and ears might help produce a body.

Police and volunteers have been searching ever since he disappeared in Pegram.

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=12524802

I hope they find him soon.

[taterguy]

20. Not trying to be a contrarian but a 23 person death toll isn't high enough to spark interest

How many people die in that area in a normal weekend?

I agree that the devastation in Tennessee should be more widely covered.

I'm just trying to explain why it isn't.

[Uncle Joe]

23. There was nothing normal about that flood, and 23 or 33 if you count southern Kentucky and northern

Mississippi is 33 more than died in New York and yet well after this third rate bomber was captured the network news's coverage led with and was dominated about the details of his life while the Tennessee Valley was drowning.

I'm not trying to diminish the bomb attempt in New York but nobody died and I was responding to your "If it bled it led post."

May has already broken the record for the most rain to fall in Middle Tennessee, there is nothing normal about that.

People drowned on a major federal Interstate while being stuck in traffic in Nashville because the rain fell so fast in such a short period of time, and there was nothing normal about that either.

As my other post on this thread alluded to, I believe the primary motivation of the national corporate media for not covering this historic and tragic event in the manner it should have been, is because it could have been viewed as another "canary in the coal mine" sign of global warming climate change and too many in the corporate media have too much invested in either denying that looming catastrophe or obfuscating it.

In short, coverage of the Nashville or Tennessee Valley Flood didn't serve American Corporate interests and serving corporate interests is the prime directive of the corporate media.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Because it didn't advance American Corporate interests.

By itself the flood was a historic 500 - 1000 year weather event, taken in to account with too much analysis from the corporate media may have prompted speculation as to whether global warming climate change contributed or magnified it.

The goal for much of the corporate media is to maintain obfuscation at best regarding the issue of global warming climate change, and visual reminders of record floods or droughts undercuts that endeavor.

[beam me up scottie]

16. I don't know, we had a bunch of tornadoes tear through here at the same time.

Hail the size of baseballs, etc.

I know the disaster in the Gulf is off the charts compared to this, but still, people died and the flooding went on for days.

I was invited to take pictures of the damage in Clarkesville but I couldn't do it.

[XOKCowboy]

18. K&R buddy...

Did Brad's tour get off on time?

[Scurrilous]

19. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Catherina]

22. Terrible :( n/t

[4_TN_TITANS]

24. I spent that weekend riveted to the news

high and dry on the Cumberland Plateau. It's going to economically knee-cap Tennessee for at least a year. My fellow TNers have fought tooth and nail to keep only a sales tax instead of having a progressive income tax. The damage to Opry Mills / Opryland / Downtown has wiped away millions and millions from sale tax revenue.