The quotes used in this video come from this blog post. This blog is usually a hockey blog for the Nashville Predators. But after the flooding, this guy took a few moments to veer from his usual topics to share some observations of the May 2010 floods.
There is an edge to his words we see in the video. And if you take the time to see the read the whole entry, you'll see them there too. Those were difficult times for the residents of Nashville and you can see the raw feelings that were captured in the moment of that article.
He seems a bit perturbed by the lack of national news media (citing a failed car bomb and the oil leak in the Gulf occurring simultaneously to the flooding) but takes a moment to give a little shout out to the people of his hometown. His article ends by saying this: "And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, I’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, we’ll be discussing the new Predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.
Because we are Nashville."
I love those last sentences: life will go on "with nary a thought of these past few days. But it a way they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that...it can happen to us...but also know that we can handle it. Because we are Nashville."
There's (rightfully, IMHO) a lot of pride in Nashville concerning how they handled the floods. And seeing this video and reading this blog gives me more reasons to be glad I have the opportunity to go "be the church" for this great city.
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