Well, anyone who is a weather buff or lives a/o has family and close friends in the Mid-Tennessee area will recognize this coming Sunday, May 1, 2010, as the sad but definite first anniversary of the horrific Nashville floods. A year ago, my family and I faced the event, living in an older apartment in downtown Franklin, a lower-ground area. Many neighbors/friends were not as fortunate as we came out; many lost their homes, either to wipe-out or for the most part flood damage. It was not uncommon for weeks after to see piles and piles of wrecked furniture, boxes of memorabilia and mostly broken-down portions or whole parts of their lives - gutter guts, wood trimmings, frames, etc. It was such a sad, almost monumental time when so much of a historic city was "reshaped," ruined or in some situations condemned in many homes and small businesses.
We were so blessed; we had to move our car five times in a rising pool of water in our parking lot which rose higher and higher to each cars' doors and exterior frame. The sad thing was watching cars that actually floated; people who were out of town, unaware that they wouldn't have that same ride anymore when they returned. Those scenes are forever etched in my mind.
That was almost a year ago! It's amazing how fast everyone starts repairing, replacing, revamping and re-surviving. Now, within days of that tragic day we are going through quite similar circumstances. The tornado alarms have sounded; the atmosphere is solemn; the schools were released early. No, it doesn't (at this time) appear to be a deja vu, however it is a defiinite anniversary mark. The Cumberland River is expected to be 37 inches over its normal level by tomorrow morning, Thursday, April 28, 2011.
This remembrance is actually two-fold; it's an important date to remind us of what could happen anytime - as it almost is for all of us here AGAIN.............. but it's also to let you know we will not be going to our first review tonight - with Platinum Rose at 12th & Porter, a low-lying Nashville pub. We will definintely reschedule that for a new time - keep yourself informed by regularly checking this site.
Instead - in a different direction - it looks like our first check-out will be on Tuesday, May 3, at a venue to be announced with several locally-established but yet-to-be nationally recognized names. It will be in one of Nashville's smaller but well-loved listening venues. We will be there, excited, as we can't wait to start showing locales - as well as ANYONE - what's up and coming in this Music City.
So, finally, let's all take a moment and say a prayer to those who are still putting their lives back together from that event a year ago .............. give them encouragement.........because if any town were to keep on rockin' ----- that town would be Music City, Nashville.
Keep on rockin,
Karen
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