Tag Archives: snowpocalypse
Bright & Early: Fear The Bellevue Beaver Edition
Good morning, Nashville. There have been some indisputably great moments in Nashville’s history which have included everything from #TheSituation2010 to last year’s Christmas Tree Fail, but what happened last night may well have topped them all. Reports began to surface yesterday afternoon that a dead human body had turned up in Bellevue. Sad, right? A [...]
Opryland Shines Tonight For A Country Christmas Lighting Ceremony
After a soggy few months, our beloved Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center is back and better than ever. And just in the nick of time, too – The hotel plays host to A Country Christmas each year, and it wouldn’t have been quite as merry this holiday season without the lights and festivities out [...]
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 [...]
Happy Hour: If You Can’t Say Anything Nice
The guy who robbed the Suntrust on Commerce this week was nabbed by police after an observant citizen who overheard him bragging a little too loudly and called the cops. [Tennessean] Tennessee is one of the states affected by a widespread salami recall. So if you bought any of it recently, you may want to [...]
Bright & Early: Railroaded Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Two weeks ago, officials with Metro Schools predicted a $35 million budget shortfall for the 2010 fiscal year, but the number has since been raised to $38 million. On top of a sales tax revenue shortage, the district also shell out some extra cash for higher-than-predicted employee insurance rates and 300 new [...]
Happy Hour: We Have A Situation
Nashville WX is doing a great job making sure they don’t build up our hopes and then crush them keeping us ahead of Friday’s storm, which they have decided to call “The Ice/Snow Situation.” Your Nashvillest will be following suit, but shortening the nickname to “The Situation,” or #thesituation2010. And actually, this one does look [...]
Bright & Early: What To Do With Bellevue Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Folks in Bellevue have been talking with the Metro Council about rezoning the Bellevue Center Mall turned into another incarnation of Hillwood High School, whose current building would be shut down. At the moment, the plan is to turn the mall into a mixed-use development (although Eric Crafton and Facebook seem to think [...]
Happy Hour: Wall To Wall
A local church put together and sent out 10,000 health kits to help with the relief work in Haiti. [WSMV] Friends and neighbors of the family that was killed in a duplex fire this morning are hoping to come together and raise some money for the two surviving children. Five people, including the parents and [...]
Happy Hour: We Can’t Find Any News That Isn’t About Snow
We’ve made plenty of jokes about it already, but by the looks of this photo of the bread shelves this afternoon, y’all really did clean Kroger out of bread. [TwitPic] Meanwhile, projected snowfall amounts for the region continue to go down, and down, and down… [NashvilleWX] Yet we storm the grocery stores anyway. [WKRN] And [...]
Bright & Early: Doing Our Snow Dance Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Weather forecasters are slowly beginning to crush our Snowpocalypse dreams by doing things like downgrading our Winter Storm Watch to a simple advisory and changing our snowfall projections to “around one inch.” Our trusty friends at NashvilleWX still have at least the northern half of Davidson County in the 2-3″ range. But [...]
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