• More than 130,000 Nashville residents were without power after strong storms blew through the area yesterday afternoon, making it one of the largest power outages in the city’s history. The storms toppled trees and damaged homes in the region.
• Nashville has extended its “Safer at Home” order through at least this Friday, with cases on average continuing to point towards the start of Phase 1 of lifting restrictions on business operations.
• News Channel 5 asks if Nashville will experience “FOMO” (yes, their word) as the ring counties relax their restrictions sooner.
• When that order does expire, there will be new rules for restaurants in order to limit the spread of virus, including requiring that staff members wear masks at all times and dining room capacity remain at 50 percent or lower.
• Eighty eight people have tested positive at Nashville Rescue Mission out of the 316 at the facility. NRM provides temporary housing and services for the city’s homeless.
• Of the state’s 95 counties, two remain without a single reported case of COVID-19.
• Four people have tested positive for the coronavirus at the temporary homeless shelter built at Fairgrounds Nashville. The city planned to test 198 staying at the facility.
• Your next flight will be a lot different, with some requiring that the crew and passengers wear masks.
• The owner of Peg Leg Porker Barbecue in the Gulch is rather upset at the proposal to raise property taxes, saying that it may push him to move his business out of Nashville. The city is facing severe economic headwinds because of the March 3 tornadoes and COVID-19 pandemic.
• Belmont, Lipscomb and TSU joined other area colleges in hosting a “virtual graduation ceremony” for their graduating seniors.
• The Navy’s Blue Angels demonstration team plans to do a fly over Nashville this week, weather permitting, to pay “tribute to essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19.“
• WPLN is partnering with Spanish-language media outlet Nashville Noticias to expand the capabilities of both organizations.
• The Nashville Scene has a look back at what had been the worst natural disaster to hit Nashville at the time, the 2010 floods.
• Nashville based Advance Financial has laid off 170 staff members at their payday lending stores, while interior design platform Houz has laid off 53 according to state records. The Holiday Inn near Vanderbilt has laid off 70 employees.
• The Basement East’s owners say they hope to have the music venue destroyed by the March 3 tornadoes open by the end of the year. April would have marked their fifth anniversary.
• Nashville’s notable chefs are working with Second Harvest Food Bank to provide meals to those in need.

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