I'm sure you are tired of seeing all of my flood posts, but it's all we have seen or talked about the past couple days. When you hear about floods you always think, well they shouldn't have built in the floodplain. Let's face it. The majority of the major floods in this country are devastating because homes and businesses were built in the floodplain. If your house is in a floodplain, make sure you have flood insurance. You can check this
website to see if you are in a floodplain. Or, use it before you buy a house so you avoid being in a floodplain all together. But, the thing that is so devastating here is that many of the areas affected are not in a floodplain. Water is in areas that no one could have ever imagined it could have gotten there.
I read an interesting article commenting on how the national media has largely ignored the flood."A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own."
As the water subsides, it will be months before many people can get back to their normal lives. Many organizations are accepting volunteers and donations. Every little bit helps.
The Nashville Red CrossThe Tennessee Emergency Management Agency
(TEMA) has activated the Tennessee Emergency Donations Hotline to
accept contributions to support state flood victims. Volunteers
will begin answering calls at 8 a.m. on Wed., May 5. The toll free
number is (866) 586-4483, and the hotline will be staffed from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m. CDT daily.
Text 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to donate $10 to disaster relief.
2 comments:
Your post was excellent! There's also another organization doing good things. It is Hands on Nashville
HON.Org. They have already heard from over 7000 people signing up to volunteer.
You are right in that not much was done by the media regarding Nashville's flood and that was what happened here in Houston and Galveston after Ike. The majority of the people in this area didn't sit around waiting for someone else to take care of them... they got to work that same afternoon or next day after Ike struck and started pulling together and helping one another. This is how it's supposed to be done and I'm happy to see that Nashville has done the same thing!
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