Sandbags

I sat there by the water’s edge, gazing into it as we awaited our next move. The light tower from the Nashville-Davidson County Office of Emergency Management reflected in the pool of water. A few days earlier, I would have been sitting on the edge of a parking lot. Tonight, I was peering down into [...]

Not landlocked anymore

We sit on a dry street in East Nashville, completely oblivious to the catastrophe that is striking Nashville and the surrounding areas. Strike that, we are hardly oblivious — at this very hour, a police scanner is rattling off streets and units numbers, and Samantha is furiously hammering out the details on Twitter and Facebook. [...]

Snow business

I’m writing this on my phone. Not because I particularly enjoy the idea of pecking away on a mblile device, rather I am fairly sure my Mac mini may have burned through its second harddrive in as many years. Oddly, I am not too concerned. I had just pulled my Home folder to the spare [...]

Ike

I cannot wrap my mind around the idea of a major city in our country going for up to a week without electricity or safe water. Our thoughts and prayers are with the residents of Houston (particularly one family) and the surrounding area as they begin the long road to a return to normalcy.

Proper priorities

We did not get to bed last night until well past 2 a.m. because of the line of storms that hit the mid-south yesterday evening. On two occasions were holed up in the fitness center (away from the heavy equipment) of our apartment complex while our weather radio made an awful racket. I can thank [...]