Twenty-nine people were killed in Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, as the Cumberland River overflowed its banks at a height of 12 feet. Nashville was particularly hard hit. Many country music sites, including the Grand Ole Opry (the new theater, but not the original Ryman) and the Country Music Hall of Fame, with its priceless artifacts, were flooded. See Nashville Flooding: At Least 29 Dead From Flash Flooding in the South – ABC News.
A commenter yesterday interrupted the thread to talk about this, lamenting that the disaster is getting hardly any attention from the media or anyone else. He’s right, and that’s a shame! We seem fixated on the oil spill and the fate of fish and beaches, while being oblivious to the loss of human life, property, and culture that is happening in the South.
Can anyone in the three affected states report?
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