Tag Archives: water conservation
Happy Hour: Full Moon Is Shining
Randy Moss is a Titan now! And being the ill-informed football fans that we sometimes are, we’re not sure what this means, but it seems to be good news. Wikipedia tells us that he fake-mooned an entire stadium once, so there’s that. [City Paper] And another news item we can’t comprehend today is this bathroom [...]
Happy Hour: We Got Our Flippy-Floppies
Long live the KR Harrington water treatment plant! It’s finally back up and running, as Mayor Dean announced today, but let’s not all rush out and wash our cars and/or water our lawns and/or fill our swimming pools and/or tap the fire hydrants for fun just yet. Metro Water officials are still asking us to [...]
Bright & Early: Unlikely Help Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Most of us have heard the story about group of inmate volunteers who saved the Omohundro water treatment facility from flooding with their mad sandbagging skills. News Channel 5 takes a closer look at what happened that day and finds that some inmates worked as many as 36 hours straight shoveling 500 tons [...]
What About The Water? [Flood 2010]
We’ve been getting lots of questions over the last few days about what’s going on with water conservation and why no one is talking about it anymore. We took a quick trip over to Metro Water’s website to consult the water measure infographic and found that we’re actually in pretty good shape. Thanks to all [...]
Bright & Early: Slow And Steady Wins The Race Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Although our water situation here has been bad (Williamson folks, you’re off the hook), at least we’re not Montgomery County. Because their sewage treatment plant has been out of commission since the flood, every time they flush a toilet, the untreated waste goes straight into the Cumberland. We would like to also point out [...]
Bright & Early: Live Like We’re Drying Edition
Good morning, Nashville. According to the Tennesseans who have been dealing with FEMA over the past few days, help is arriving surprisingly fast. Tales of two-day application turnarounds, speedy inspectors and quick payments through direct deposit seem to be the norm. FEMA officials were also on-hand last night for two community meetings in Bellevue and [...]
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 [...]
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