{"id":188,"date":"2010-05-07T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-05-07T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:13:06","slug":"nashville-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2010\/05\/07\/nashville-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I felt helpless this week watching the unbelievable photos of Nashville and my hometown of Clarksville, devastated by the worst flooding in their history.\u00a0 \u00a0Trying to stay in communication with my mother via cell phone as she rushed to get out of her flooding home was frightening and surreal. \u00a0What to do with the cats? What roads are open? \u00a0Where to go? Her tone changed with each conversation \u2013\u2013 panic, disbelief, scrambling to make quick decisions, despair, and resignation. \u00a0It was heartbreaking.\u00a0 She is safe and so are the cats.\u00a0 Like so many others, she\u2019s sifting through the wreckage to see what can be salvaged.<\/p>\n

Facebook is my connection to friends back home and it has been particularly comforting and touching to watch them help one another this week.\u00a0 They posted photos and videos of the damage, shared information about curfews, water safety, hazardous roads, alternate routes, food and more. The most frequent posts were people telling each other (and themselves) \u201cwe\u2019re going to be okay, we can do this, we WILL do this.\u201d\u00a0 There were also firm, but loving messages to the very few who complained about the situation \u2013\u2013 \u201chey, we all know it\u2019s tough right now but we\u2019re alive, others weren\u2019t so lucky, let\u2019s stick together, stay positive and make this right.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m proud of my family and friends for the way they\u2019re handling this unexpected and unimaginable situation. It\u2019s not going to be easy. Their loss and the hard work they have ahead of them is not something I can begin to absorb by merely looking at photos and Facebook posts. \u00a0The real work has only begun and it\u2019s going to take a long time before life resembles anything normal, but they WILL do this.\u00a0 They\u2019re strong.\u00a0 I miss them. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Here are some photos <\/a>from the Tennessean, and here are some more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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