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Or pretty much anyone in that bastion of Bitter Clingers, white or otherwise.

I was back home in Nashville over the weekend, and it’s absolutely heartbreaking. I’m back in D.C., but I wish I was there with my neighbors to help in the cleanup efforts. You can help be donating to the Nashville Red Cross: http://www.nashvilleredcross.org/index.asp?IDCapitulo=78T3Z2WSK0

doesn’t interest him much. Street organizing is more fun.

2 Republican Senators and went for McCain.

Maybe Bambi will be able to spare some week old bread.

I’m sure we’ll see Obama — if the good Lord’s willing and the creek’s don’t rise.

It does not effect any of his bills, such as cap and tax,and he doesn’t expect to garner any votes so why waste teleprompter batteries.
The flooding is immense. Not just metro Nashville which the media centers on but throughout the middle Tn from Ky down to the AL border. I’ve gone through four (rural) counties today and turned back on several of the backroads even ones with very little water them. The chirt is too slimey and some good gravel roads are washed away.

The governor has already declared us a disaster area so we don’t need a lot more from the O.

Don’t mean for this to sound bitter, but given that there were shelters set up in the Nashville area and contiguous counties, as well as shelters in numeorus outlying counties I did not catch any reports of raping or shooting going on. Now, I realize the shelters were smaller than the dome in NO but still…!

If I missed a report please correct me, but so far I’m seeing nada as far as felony opportunistic endevours are concerned.

BTW, our own LP field for the Titans is flooded so we couldn’t ship anybody there anyway.

The official amount of rainfall came in at a little over 13 inches. IIRC, it was 13.38 but I stopped caring at some point what the official total was because I had work to do.

The building in the clip happened between my exit off I24 and the next exit down. All those trucks and cars were stopped there because Bell Road was already underwater. No one expected it to become a trap but that is what happened. The concrete median in the middle is all that saved the westbound lanes for a time until the water started spilling over. On any given day, Mill Creek is nothing to look at but when you get something like that happening, it becomes a monster.

As tngal pointed out the greater swath of Middle TN was hit bad. It’s going to take time to get back to normal TN life for all those areas but we will. We were literally pounded by wave after wave after wave of heavy rains that fell in sheets for two days nonstop. The weather people kept telling us it was going to end but it never seemed to do that.

Obama doesn’t care about anything or anybody except his “pals.” He was the same with the Kentucky ice storm, the oil spill, that hurricane during the elections that was to hit N.O. and parts of TX, and so forth and so on. It’s not going to matter what he takes credit for.

The smoke has cleared and the mirror has cracked into a hundred pieces, with a hundred tiny faces smiling back at him and he’s the only one who is unaware that all those faces are him.

I’m figuring TN will be treated pretty much like MS was during Katrina. All eyes were on N.O. and MS took what they could get from FEMA and trucked right along and they recovered better and faster for it, so I’m thankful nobody is caterwauling about how much Obama cares. We are a resilient bunch and we’ll get through this.

There were a bunch of idiots standing on a bridge yesterday on Antioch Pike at Haywood Lane with the water still raging. I saw them when I zipped down to the Dollar General in hopes that it was open (placed on higher ground) and I could pick up some cheap utility knives so I could start cutting out a ruined carpet and drying out my home office.

Even where the water has receded there is devastation in its wake.

You know, to help out all them ignorant knuckle dragging hillbillies and stuff. Just the sound of his articulate voice would surely be a source of Hope and Change for them.

Heh.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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I hope the Gore family mines and waste dumps are far enough away that they don’t create a disaster above and beyond the flooding of residents.

since it is a pretty conservative state. My prayers go out to my fellow Americans living in TN. Also my prayers that BO returns to live in Kenya or Indonesia SOON.

Steph is right, the rain totals were much higher than have been reported in many places. My folks poured out more than 12 inches from their backyard rain gauge, but many areas got 18-20 inches in those two days. My son’s fiance in Murfreesboro had to stand by and watch her sister’s house flood the entire first floor of her house. The water was knee-deep in the first floor and waist high in the yard outside.

As I write this this morning, the death toll from the flooding stands at 18 in TN. The number of homes and businesses affected by this is not yet known. Hundreds of thousands, at the least, would be my guess. The Cumberland River, which runs right through the heart of Nashville, has crested higher than any time in “modern times” as the news guy put it this morning. From the air, the view is of one of unbelievable devastation. And Nashville is a hilly city.

Obama is a disgrace. But Tennessee and the mid-state area in particular do not need whatever platitudes he might offer– one of the most notable aspects of disasters in this state is that people immediately fall to in order to help each other and NOWHERE has there been any reports of looting. I don’t recall even hearing a public official addressing the issue in case someone might have the notion to do something like that.

Then again, Tennessee is a red state.

It is Bush’s fault!! He can’t whip that dog this time?!?!??!

to assist the bitter clingers. However, it might be noteworthy to mention that some of the worst flooding in the region didn’t affect the Southern rube, gun slingin, Bible totin, homophobic racists, but areas heavily populated with people of color and poverty. This was an equal opportunity flood, but I guess as long as those evil racists are part of the mix, O will abstain from placing his hands on and healing the area.

I don’t understand… So, Obama didn’t mention the folks in Tennessee and their problems and seems uninterested…. I seem to remember a story from late last week, perhaps over the weekend, that some areas of Connecticut, affected by the winter storms this past season, applied for some sort of Federal help, and Obama basically picked and chose who got the funding. (Namely his Union buddies, and other people, while businesses and apartment building owners got the shaft) Can someone find the story, if it is true, then that would go a long way to proving that this President cares little for anyone who isn’t on his side of the aisle….

I live in the southernest part of middle Tn. We did not have as much flooding and destruction as our brethern to our north. We don’t need Obama- we are self reliant, eager to lend a hand to our neighbors and fellow man. So we’ll cling to our mops, buckets, and sump pumps as well as our guns and God. We don’t expect help from Obama- we expect to do what needs to be done. Country folk can survive-

in TN, KY, AL, my heart & prayers go out to you. Having lived through the 4 hurricanes in FL back in ’04, I can only hope your local officials don’t rely on FEMA or other Fed agencies for a quick response. You’ll have to do it on your own for the first bit. Better anyway, as the feds usually muck things up anyhow. Lord knows the Anointed One won’t be of any service. After all, it’s only flyover country to him.

PS: One good thing about ol’ Jeb Bush, back in ’04 & 05, is that he did get the state’s resources marshaled for first response. I’ll give him props for his performance then.

and I have faith in the people who live there. It’s not called the Volunteer state for nothin’. I’m thankful that my family members who live about 70 miles southeast were not hit as hard, but my heart goes out to those who are suffering. I am praying for those in TN as well as those affected by the oil spill in my adopted state of Alabama and our neighbors. One bright spot is that I heard the Ryman Auditorium was spared flooding because it sits on a hill, but I’m sure there are many historic spots that weren’t.

One other thought is that since Nashville has such a wonderful medical community, there are lots of people living outside the area that go to Nashville for their medical needs, including my own family. Hopefully, doctors, clinics and hospitals will be at full capacity soon and roads will be open so that those with medical needs can make it to their appointments.

when the Hollywood telethon will be held? Didn’t think so.

Vince Gill is hosting a telethon, to be shown on Nashville’s WSMV-TV Channel 4 called “Working 4 You: Flood Relief with Vince Gill & Friends.” It will run from 7 to 10 p.m. Central time, and will be streamed live on WSMV.com.