Last night was a real doozy in the south. A line of storms moving west to northeast brought tornadoes, thunder, lightning, wind, rain, and hail. Usually I’m a fan of storms when they’re just thunder/lightning but after what happened to my house last year, hmm, not so much a fan anymore. In fact, last nightContinue reading “Nashville’s stormy weather last night”
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Remembering the Nashville flood… and what I regret to this very day!
I can still remember it as clear as day, which is rather ironic because on this day, it was anything but clear. It rained. I don’t mean on and off rain… it rained all afternoon. And then it rained all day the next day. Nashville was experiencing what will be record-setting setting rainfall causing floodsContinue reading “Remembering the Nashville flood… and what I regret to this very day!”
Affect of Hurricane Harvey on Google maps “traffic”
Take a glance at Houston, Texas on Google maps (with “traffic” selected) and you’ll see how much Hurricane Harvey is still affecting the area, 5 days after making landfall. The news this morning showed the storm over the Beaumont area, so I included a Google map of that town, also. The red-dashed lines are indicatingContinue reading “Affect of Hurricane Harvey on Google maps “traffic””
Flood, Pain and Prayer
It was the summer of 2010 and Nashville just experienced a 500-year flood that devastated houses and families. There were many opportunities to get involved with the clean-up effort; through churches, charity efforts, and even places of employment encouraging employees to help by lending a hand in the hardest hit areas. The building where IContinue reading “Flood, Pain and Prayer”
The Nashville Flood, May 2010
If there never was a reason to love this city, there is now. What I’ve witnessed in the kindness of people here is not something I’ve seen before, and I’ve been through my share of tough storms (former resident of hurricane-prone Florida, including Hurricane Andrew). A quick recap- Saturday it started raining. Saturday afternoon itContinue reading “The Nashville Flood, May 2010”
Out of the Wilderness 