Tag Archives: winter storm
Bright & Early: Charrrrge Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Well done with the citywide snowball fight last night! We’d guess around 100 of you turned out and pelted each other to your hearts’ content. Battlecries were shouted, alliances were formed, news crews were ambushed, and some strangers even united to build an impressive 7-foot snowman. The snow is supposed to taper off [...]
Bright & Early: Snow On The Brain Edition
Good morning, Nashville. You might have noticed that’s snowing outside! Most of Nashville received anywhere from 2-4″ last night, resulting in school closures, canceled flights, hazardous driving conditions and an official state of emergency. According to weather forecasts, we’ve probably got another inch or two on the way tonight into tomorrow. We can has snow [...]
Bright & Early: Enough Already Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’re looking out the window this morning and wondering how the heck it’s still snowing, we’re right there with you. And if you didn’t know it was snowing, a quick skim of the headlines would probably tip you off. We’re seeing everything from kids going without food because school is closed [...]
Happy Hour: Jump Off That Sofa
Metro is trying their absolute best to drum up support for the new convention center by, well, taking possession of the Sommet Center parking lot and blocking it off during tonight’s Black Eyed Peas show, resulting in the kind of apocalyptic overflow of parked cars that can only be caused by a crowd of 10,000 [...]
Bright & Early: Ready Set Fight Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro school officials are kicking around a couple of ideas for making up the last snow day, which was not actually a snow day because they’re out of those. For some reason, just every other school system in the midstate builds in anywhere from 10-12 snow days and they all seem to [...]
Happy Hour: Heart Heart
Vanderbilt is launching a special free Master’s program for those who have their teaching certification and commit to teaching in Metro schools for three years. The first crop of students will start this summer. [WSMV] Winter storm warning! But not for us (though we’ll still see some snow and sleet.) [Nashville WX] Economists from the [...]
Bright & Early: It All Falls Down Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By the time you read this, the demolition of the Nashville Autohaus and several other buildings near the 7th and Shirley intersection will probably be underway (but not Rocketown just yet!) Construction for the Music City Center is expected to break ground today meaning that all of the buildings that are currently [...]
Bright & Early: #TheSituation2010
Good morning, Nashville. Whether you’re reading this from under your covers at home or you’re cursing the school children for that snow day you didn’t get, the winter weather is on its way. As predicted, the city is taking every possible precaution including readying emergency response crews, putting the electric company on standby, working 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 [...]
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