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NASHVILLE FLOOD REPORT UPDATE
Reported by JD Fisher, DGT staff and
Nashville resident.
Nashville area May 2010
Reported by JD Fisher, DGT staff and
Nashville resident.
Nashville area May 2010
Introduction:
Nashville, Tennessee is a city, some just call it a "Town ", but it is a city much larger than most people realize. One journalist called it a small town and the first thing that happened the writer got lost when he got here. Music City is not a "Small town" as he soon discovered. It's amusing when people call towns in the South "Small towns," then yeppity-do, they find this city is not a small town. Many musicians and singers come on buses, in cars, some even hitch-hike here. There is a steady flow of new-comers in town with the dawn of each day. All of them looking for that one niche that is going to propel them to the top. As always, there are those that come here prepared and move into the music "Biz" and do well and will be looking for a home and if no family, they too will be looking for people and networking with other musicians and people working within the music business. They find this Music City to be a great place to live and work as well as settling down starting a family. This has been occurring for all the years this writer has been here and with the dream of making a successful career in the eyes of the adventurous, as well as making it to the "Big time," this will not stop!
Nashville, Tennessee is a city, some just call it a "Town ", but it is a city much larger than most people realize. One journalist called it a small town and the first thing that happened the writer got lost when he got here. Music City is not a "Small town" as he soon discovered. It's amusing when people call towns in the South "Small towns," then yeppity-do, they find this city is not a small town. Many musicians and singers come on buses, in cars, some even hitch-hike here. There is a steady flow of new-comers in town with the dawn of each day. All of them looking for that one niche that is going to propel them to the top. As always, there are those that come here prepared and move into the music "Biz" and do well and will be looking for a home and if no family, they too will be looking for people and networking with other musicians and people working within the music business. They find this Music City to be a great place to live and work as well as settling down starting a family. This has been occurring for all the years this writer has been here and with the dream of making a successful career in the eyes of the adventurous, as well as making it to the "Big time," this will not stop!
Many musicians have come here and made a lucrative career in the music business and a few of them went 0n to make the so called "Big time." With this happening as well as the music business changing with each day, there will always be a place for people with dreams as well as the ones that just want to be near the music. I, as a musician and a writer, have other interests, and I know many people that are involved in business not related to the entertainment world. With this in mind, this is one of the many reasons the city of Nashville is growing in leaps and bounds. It has become one of the fastest growing cities in the nation and is the recording capital of the world! Artists come from all over the world to record here. This fact alone speaks volumes about the music and the quality of musicians as well as the recording industry in Music City as a whole.
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Nashville, Music City, Tennessee became the focus of the nation as well as the world as the world saw for the first time in the history of the city, just what a little known river called the "Cumberland" can do and has done in the past. A river that has become one of the most used waterways in the central United States. A river that was and still is a notorious waterway, but still used for transporting products such as grain and coal and other products that must be moved in bulk. The Cumberland is also one of the rivers that has several dams built that slow down the flow of the water and create lakes that the locals use for recreation. The Cumberland has five such dams that was built by the Corp of Engineers that hold the water-flow back and incorporate the locks that open and close to allow the river traffic to traverse the Cumberland. This river and it's lakes provide a great deal of recreation such as boating, fishing and swimming. This writer is a regular user, fishing from my home here on the lake known as "Old Hickory" that the Cumberland River runs through.
There are many musicians, singers, and people known in the music business as support people. These people are the ones that move the equipment and the entertainers and the big shows from place to place. The back-up singers and the musicians as well as the entire entertainment industry here in Music City recently took a huge hit with the great flood that took place in May, 2010. This flood has been deemed the worse flood in the history of Tennessee and the Cumberland River area. There have been floods in the past, in 1935 and several other years in the past where massive flood waters destroyed the city of Nashville and the surrounding areas. In these times the flood waters had very little to stop the destructive flow of water that came crashing down the Cumberland River. Many lives were lost as well as cattle and property lost-swept down the river. This flood caused 1.75 billion dollars in damage and loss to the property and people living in and near the Nashville area. Many of these people were musicians and people that work in the music business as support and in marketing, sales and all aspects in the music business. To say they and their families took a great loss would be an understatement to say the least. I know many musicians that lost their lively-hood, their homes and all they owned including their tools of their trade. The instruments, equipment, vehicles, everything gone or damaged so severely, many of the musicians had to purchase new or used equipment just to be able to work. Most of the playing jobs in the Nashville, Music City areas were shut down until the water receded and the venues rebuilt and reopened. In this course of events, many of the working people in the music industry was in limbo and had to look elsewhere for income. Many of them had to leave Music City because they could not sustain themselves and their families until the clubs and other businesses related to the music and entertainment industry could get up and running again. The industry as a whole, as well as the people involved in the music business and the city as a whole took a massive hit, loosing millions in business revenue and property. The Grand Ole Opry was damaged as well as the OpryLand Hotel and many of the collectibles and relics stored in the building were lost. The industry and all the people in the music industry including many of the super stars such as Vince Gill, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Allen Jackson, just to name a few, pitched in and raised millions of dollars that helped so much in the recovery of the city of Nashville and the businesses and the people here that lost so much. The great recovery is still in progress as the city and the music industry rebuilds and recovers.
The people in middle Tennessee are among the most generous people on earth and the STARS always pitch in and do their best in a bad situation along with the people that live and work here as we all saw here in Music City during this crisis. Many of the STARS themselves lost their homes and property. Kenny Chesney was one that took a great loss as well as many others.
We here at DAMNGOODTUNES.COM and all the writers and staff want to say, "THANK YOU" to all the Super Stars and all the other generous people that have come forward and lended their helping hands and money to Music city and it's people in one of their greatest times of need! The Mayor, Mr. Carl Dean and his staff, the Sheriff's Departments of Davidson County and the surrounding counties as well as the fire chiefs and the many firemen and EMT's that worked so diligently rescuing the many people and their families stranded in the flood waters. The flood water that came so quickly and swiftly, surprising many that has seen floods in the areas before. This flood was like no other flood on record in the Nashville and surrounding area. The water was deep and swift, a result of 12 to 18 inches of heavy rain fall in two days. Many of the victims had little warning and never thought the water would come so quickly and rise to the debts seen and cause so much heartbreak and devastation.
THANK YOU middle TENNESSEE, WE WILL SURVIVE! The city of Nashville and the suburban cities felt the pain, a pain that will take years to recover from. The industry is back up and running today and the venues are open for business now and the people in the Nashville, Music city area have themselves and the people in the surrounding area to thank for all the help. With everyone pitching in and working as one people and one body to recover and restore a city to it's greatness, Nashville, Music City is BACK! We are OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!
The economy here is still in great shape and with the help of all the great people that make up the vast area called middle Tennessee, we as a huge community will make it an even greater city and a stronger place for the music industry to thrive in the future. As we have shown in the past six plus weeks, we are a fighting bunch of people here. A river or most anything else will not keep us down for long! We will survive and become even bigger and better for the musicians and people that want to come here and make Nashville, Tennessee, Music City their home.
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