Referring to (of course) the floods back home, a friend just posted this on FB:
"It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history."

I think one reason why it isn't deemed newsworthy is because the people in Nashville are civilized. No looting, nothing like that. Just nice people helping each other.
My husband was at the Opryland Hotel for the DISA conference. Luckily for him, he had not checked in yet and had his belongings, but was still evacuated out with everyone because they wouldn't let people leave. The next day he took a cab to my brother's house south of town. ALL of the convention area was until more than 8 feet of water. Gaylord told everyone to "call their insurance companies" and they would discard everything that was ruined, but you know that the companies all have company propriety stuff there-no one is letting their stuff get thrown out. (Not that it is possible to get to it yet).

Yeah, that's what I remember... my bunch wasn't big enough to occupy the "actual" convention floor. We held the meeting areas just above it. As I recall, the real convention floors were two flights of stairs down. And the water was above the floors WE took. Thing is, I don't remember Opryland being anywhere NEAR the river. Damn... just... damn...

It's global warming. Turn off all your electrical equipment, including your weather radios and GPS locaters, and if you see a rescue helicopter approaching, try to get them to land and keep them from taking off again because they'll burn more fossil fuels.