Nashville Muddy Nashville
I imagine that by now many of you have heard of the situation in our current hometown, Nashville. After two days of record rainfall that left much of the city under flash floods, many of the local waterways, including the Cumberland River, which runs right through downtown, swelled and overcame their banks, flooding a lot of homes and businesses and causing unbelievable damage.
This didn’t only happen to Nashville, but many of the surrounding cities and towns, including Clarksville, downstream from Nashville on the Cumberland, which is home to my wife and her family.
Luckily, the water is receding now, but we are starting to see exactly what sort of mess we need to clean up and it is sort of daunting. Plus, there is heavy water conservation efforts since we are running out of clean water, so forget showers or washing dishes.
I know many of my readers are folks in the entertainment industry; venue owners, performers, marketers, PR gurus, etc. and I would call on you to use whatever outlets (Twitter, your blog, a moment on the microphone, etc) to mention this issue and help raise the national awareness so people can get some help down here. This is an entertainment town and many of you probably have collaborators and contacts here who are digging out their equipment and offices from feet of contaminated mud and anything you can do to help raise awareness will come back to you in karma points, I am sure of it.
If you want to find out some easy ways you can help, go to this post on Nashvillest. For some updated information on other efforts in the area, follow the link over to this post on Eastnashvilleblog. You can also follow #othersituation2010 on twitter. For images, check out the Other Situation 2010 Group on Flickr.
You don’t have to live here to help.
Thanks for your time.
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