Tag Archives: power outages
Bright & Early: Strike Three Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It was another rough night for us in the storm department, and more than 16,900 customers are still without power this morning according to NES. Yet another storm system plowed through the state overnight carrying some nasty straight line winds, a few tornado scares and a whole lot of lightning with it. [...]
Bright & Early: Merrily We Roll Along
Good morning, Nashville. We’re in a bit of a hurry this morning, so here is your abbreviated Bright & Early: Metro’s free bike share program kicked off this morning with a bike ride from Shelby Park to the Music City Star station. The program includes thirty bikes, helmets and locks stored at pick-up locations in [...]
Happy Hour: Across The Sky
So about those storms! Lots of power outages all over Davidson County. A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 8pm. [WKRN] On this fine Election Day–otherwise known as the Most Convenient Day Of The Year For Every Tennessee State Government Website To Go Down–every Tennessee state government website went down. Though it reportedly had [...]
Bright & Early: The Way It Moves Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s one of those weird weather weeks again with blazing heat and pop-up storms–one of which actually peeled the roof clean off of a Smyrna gas station. One thing we shouldn’t have to worry about is a trend of heat-related power outages because NES insists they have it under control. In years [...]
Here’s The Deal: Post-Flood Progress Report [Flood 2010]
We’re finally starting to wrap our minds around the damage to our city as best we can, and we continue to have our minds blown at the progress that’s being made on the clean-up each day. We’ve got quite the mess on our hands and we’re dealing with it, because that’s what we do. We’ve [...]
Happy Hour: Hold On, Y’all. We Got This. [Flood 2010]
It’s been another long day for Music City, but the waters are receding and the real work is underway. Here’s some of the latest news from around the midstate: President Obama finally declared us a disaster area, meaning that flood victims are now eligible to receive FEMA aid. To apply, call (800) 621-FEMA. The rumors [...]
Happy Hour: Whistling In The Dark Edition
Not that any of you are probably at work by 6am or anything, but NES is planning some power outages from First to Seventh avenues and Church to Demonbreun this week. They’re doing some work on everyone’s favorite Music City Center and the outages should be over by 7am on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. [WSMV] [...]
Happy Hour: So It Begins
School districts are already shutting down in anticipation of this, #TheSituation2010, including all the usual suspects: Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Sumner, and just about every other district in the midstate. Here we go! [WKRN] Local and national weather-folk are predicting anywhere from 1 to 12 inches of snow, though we’re most commonly seeing projected amounts [...]
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