Opinion: A reason for hope as Tennessee recovers
ripped through Middle Tennessee and leveled neighborhoods across our region. At least 25 people were killed statewide and, in Nashville alone, some 700 homes and 1,200 other properties were damaged. We were lucky at our home — only a few fallen limbs. In some places to the east of us, the devastation was total. On Thursday morning, the local news reported that Tennessee’shad been confirmed, just one county over.
I work from home on a flexible schedule. So does my sister, and we were able to make space in the workday to head to Cheatham Place, a neighborhood in North Nashville, where volunteers from a local nonprofit,, were gathering to provide relief to families who had lost just about everything. At Walmart, the checkout lines were six and seven carts deep with volunteers. We met two elderly men from a local African Methodist Episcopal Church who were loading up on sanitizing wipes and toilet paper to distribute from their church. A young woman and her Kurdish friend were buying cases of water and Gatorade to drop off at Gideon’s Army, another local charity. The cashier wished us all a “blessed day,” a salutation that usually leaves me a little uncertain, but not so much that day.
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