Tag Archives: fema
Bright & Early: Enforcer Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Here’s your morning news: Former Preds defenseman and forward Wade Belak was found dead in a Toronto hotel room yesterday, and though the cause of death hasn’t been confirmed, many media outlets are reporting that it was a suicide. Belak was with the Preds from 2008 until he retired this past February. [...]
Bright & Early: The Weather Outside Is Frightful Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The National Weather Service believes that 40 tornadoes touched down in Tennessee on April 27-28th including a couple of EF4 tornadoes in the ‘Noog and surrounding counties. Bledsoe, Cocke, Johnson, McMinn, Monroe and Rhea counties were also the latest Tennessee counties to be given disaster declarations yesterday. This tornado season seems to be one [...]
Bright & Early: Stand With Us Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re still celebrating the Preds victory last night, in which they defeated the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 to advance to the Western Conference semifinals for the first time in franchise history. The real story, though, seems to be the tens of thousands of very loud and very rowdy fans who turned out in [...]
Bright & Early: Buyer’s Remorse Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As of this month, Metro has closed on 41 properties as part of the flood buyout program, which is just a fancy name for buying up properties with too much flood damage that are likely to flood again so they can demolish the homes and create green space. So far, 81 homes [...]
Happy Hour: Tough As Nails
Don’t forget to set those DVRs! The Extreme Makeover episode featuring Nashville’s Lighthouse Christian School getting a post-flood makeover will air this Sunday at 7pm. Tune in an hour earlier to see some behind-the-scenes stuff courtesy of News Channel 2. [WKRN] Metro is searching for the perfect Christmas tree this year. They’re looking for a [...]
Bright & Early: Eat, Play, Love Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Governor Phil announced a new plan yesterday for curbing the obesity problem in Tennessee. Currently our state ranks second in the nation for obesity (thank goodness for Mississippi?) with 69% of adults and 39% of kids considered obese or overweight. The plan, called “Eat Well, Play More,” involves things like offering incentives [...]
Bright & Early: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The TVA is starting up a new program in April to sell electricity to distributors at rates that vary throughout the day, meaning that once NES adopts the system, we could pay higher rates around peak hours during the day and lower rates at night. This system is intended to encourage us [...]
Bright & Early: Practice Makes Perfect Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s feeling a little toasty outside, isn’t it? Well, more like someone cranked the oven to “broil.” Yes, it’s summer, and yes, it always gets hot, but temperatures are supposed to reach a record high today with the heat index spiking to 110, which is definitely hot enough to be dangerous. Metro [...]
Happy Hour: See Spot Run
There’s apparently a new Nashville reality show in the works called “NashVegas” which promises to be some sort of mixture between Entourage and American Idol. And though this sounds like a bit of a disaster, we’ll probably be tuning in should it ever see the light of day. [WSMV] Speaking of television disasters, everyone’s favorite [...]
Bright & Early: It’s A Marathon Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Thanks to the folks in the US House, our state is the proud recipient of $200 million more in federal flood relief aid. Though the midstate has made huge strides toward recovery in the past few months, many homes and businesses are still facing more damages than they can afford. Many folks [...]
Active Discussions