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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: A Day Late And A Dollar Short Edition
Good morning, Nashville, and happy Friday. The flooded Tennessee Tower is causing some serious problems for thousands of folks waiting for unemployment checks. A sprinkler system inside the building burst earlier this week, flooding an electrical vault and causing a pretty big power outage. Tennessee Department of Labor officials say that about 40,000 checks are [...]
Bright & Early: Buy In, Buy Out Edition
Good morning, Nashville. One of the hardest-hit areas during the flood was Riverbend Plantation in Bellevue, and residents are understandably upset that they didn’t qualify for Metro’s first round of buyouts. With some of the rebuilding costs reaching upwards of $50,000, these folks still managed to fall short of the stipulations for the program, which [...]
Happy Hour: Bouncing Right Back
Good news! Our water reserves are holding steady enough that Mayor Dean said car washes can reopen for at least a few hours every day. Sadly, they’re revoking our temporary HOV lane privileges as of next Monday. [WTVF & Examiner] Sen. Lamar Alexander says that a new EPA guideline regarding lead paint could drastically slow [...]
Happy Hour: 99 Problems But A Drought Ain’t One
Our damage tally is now up to a cool $1.56 billion, and that’s just private homes and businesses. Sidewalks, roads, water systems and all that stuff will likely set us back quite a bit more. [City Paper] Aw shucks, Chief Serpas. Why you leaving us so soon? Was it something we said? Was it something [...]
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: Finish What You Started
Country Music Marathon workers who were tearing down the course on Sunday were a bit surprised to see Dennis Crowder jogging across the finish line a day late. Crowder was unable to finish the full marathon on Saturday due to the storms and decided to come back on Sunday and finish the rest of the [...]
Happy Hour: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Facing the wrath of All Of Tennessee, Rep. Curry Todd insists that he’s not actually trying to close bars after midnight and that the bill is just a drastic attention-grabbing ploy to address some other issues so could we please simmer down and stop with all the angry calls and emails already, thank you very [...]
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