Gimme a towel, PLEASE!! As you may or may not know (because the national news media has just about ignored this crisis) TUNE TOWN HAS DROWNED. Nashville and surrounding counties came under attack from Mother Nature this past weekend, giving us historical amounts of rain...

Some are even saying MORE than we've had in 500 to a thousand years, altho I'm not sure how the Native Americans rain gauges made it to that news anchor's desk.

Anyway, I've been busy with Red Cross duties, as I volunteer to help in mobile feeding and have been representing them at news conferences. It's bad, really bad... in the billions of dollars BAD. As of yesterday, not only did the 13-20 inches of rain flood neighborhoods, but our Grand Ole' Opry Stage was filled with people in canoe's, instead of Brad Paisley and Little Jimmy Dickens, submerging all the staging and electrical equipment, along with the hallowed wood floors that have supported so many legends over the last century.

Next door, the Opryland Hotel evacuated 1,500 guests as the bottom floor filled with 10 feet of water. It will be months before it opens again and that could affect plans for fans coming in for the CMA Music Fest next month. Of course, the area where the festival stages the most events, Riverfront, is completely under the Cumberland River right now. The Wildhorse Saloon is flooded, as is the Hard Rock Cafe. Everyone is working 24/7 to pump the water out, but it has no where to go right now.

If you want to help those in Nashville effected by the flood you can visit www.nashvilleredcross.org and click DONATE NOW to make an online gift, mail a check to the Nashville Area Red Cross, 2201 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, Call (615) 250-4300 to make a donation by phone, or Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation on your mobile phone.

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