BY HEATHER DAVIS / NASHVILLE PAW MAGAZINE
Photo by Kellye Mitchell
As many of our readers are from out of town, I wanted to post some info on Nashville’s current state of emergency… and how you can help.
As you may have heard, Nashville has been declared a Federal Disaster Area. FEMA is here. The unbelievable flooding over the past few days have left emergency shelters at capacity, homes & businesses under 10-12 feet of water, thousands of people without power, drownings and missing persons, and we’re nearing a clean water shortage. Seventy cars were trapped under 7 feet of water on I-24, causing a mass evacuation and one drowning, as a portable school building floated past them on the interstate. Neighborhoods such as Pennington Bend along the Cumberland River are flooded to their second floors, leaving thousands of people without homes or their belongings. (more…)