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revdorothyl at 10:19am on 03/05/2010
revdorothyl at 10:19am on 03/05/2010Yes, Nashville is a mess, and here at work there are some folks in the flooded areas of Bellevue and other surrounding towns with whom we've not yet been able to make contact (areas which are not only flooded, but also without power and telephone service).
However, the parts of town where I live and work are on relatively high ground, so my only hazard on the way to work this morning was downed trees and tree limbs blocking or partially blocking some major side streets.
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Meanwhile, the selfish part of my mind is very glad that I washed my hair yesterday afternoon, before I knew that we'd lost half our water-treatment capacity and should only use water for drinking and food preparation until further notice. I've got a 5-gallon bucket full of rainwater out on the deck to use for flushing my low-flow toilet at home a few times, if worse comes to worst, and several plastic containers of drinking water in the fridge, so my water needs (now that my hair is clean) shouldn't be very great.
However, the parts of town where I live and work are on relatively high ground, so my only hazard on the way to work this morning was downed trees and tree limbs blocking or partially blocking some major side streets.
( Read more... )
Meanwhile, the selfish part of my mind is very glad that I washed my hair yesterday afternoon, before I knew that we'd lost half our water-treatment capacity and should only use water for drinking and food preparation until further notice. I've got a 5-gallon bucket full of rainwater out on the deck to use for flushing my low-flow toilet at home a few times, if worse comes to worst, and several plastic containers of drinking water in the fridge, so my water needs (now that my hair is clean) shouldn't be very great.
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