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By now the whole world knows that Nashville and surrounding areas have experienced what the Weather Service called a \u201conce in a thousand years\u201d event.<\/p>\nBy now the whole world knows that Nashville and surrounding areas have experienced what the Weather Service called a \u201conce in a thousand years\u201d event.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like an inland hurricane where, in less than a 48-hour period, between 15 and 20 inches of rain have been dumped on our area.\u00a0 And when you dump that much rain anywhere, flooding is bound to happen.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, it\u2019s really sad and heartbreaking to see people\u2019s homes flooded, and businesses of the downtown area marred by such a climactic weather event.\u00a0 But on the other hand, this reminds me one more time why I love my sweet, soggy Tennessee.<\/p>\n
Everywhere, I am inspired by people who are taking the initiative to help.<\/strong> The phone lines have been buzzing, emails, texts, Twitters; and people are getting connected to people who need help.\u00a0 First-responders are doing their usual, amazing job.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen them do this before, and they are a sight to behold.\u00a0 We thank them: all the firefighters, emergency personnel, all the first-responders who, without regard for personal well-being, throw themselves in the breach.<\/p>\n One of the reasons I love Tennessee is because Tennesseans help each other<\/strong>, watch each others’ backs.\u00a0 We don\u2019t wait for a government program, we don\u2019t try to point the finger at who\u2019s to blame.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t even heard too much finger-pointing at God, or why would He let this happen.\u00a0 Just good people rolling up their sleeves and helping each other.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be.<\/p>\n This is a sad day in our city, but we\u2019ll get over it.\u00a0 Not only will we get over it, we\u2019ll turn it into something beautiful, something better than it is today.\u00a0 When you\u2019re going through tragedy, be reminded that if you face it alone, you\u2019re screwed.\u00a0 But if you have people around you to help lift the load, a bad day and a terrible adversity can be turned into an advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By now the whole world knows that Nashville and surrounding areas have experienced what the Weather Service called a \u201conce in a thousand years\u201d event. It\u2019s like an inland hurricane where, in less than a 48-hour period, between 15 and 20 inches of rain have been dumped on our area.\u00a0 And when you dump that … Continue reading “Why I Love My Sweet, Soggy Tennessee”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/media.washingtontimes.com\/media\/img\/photos\/2010\/05\/03\/20100502-185215-pic-931558473_r268x201.jpg?55a75306147025440175d72e8758906201b73bf5\")
I\u2019m also talking about the ordinary neighbor, the guy next door, the buddy who sits next to you at church; people who do what needs to be done when it needs to be done, without having to be asked.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been inspired to see people put their boats into these new rivers and risk their lives to go rescue their neighbors, their friends, their elderly relatives.\u00a0 And this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n