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Originally Posted by Fleur de Lis
Thanks to everyone for your concern. The amazing part about this disaster is how the people of Nashville have responded. Everyone is stepping up to volunteer and help neighbors and even strangers. There are already benefit concerts being held and t-shirts being sold for relief. One blogger thinks this is why we haven't gotten much national media coverage:
http://www.section303.com/we-are-nashville-4366
Right now we are facing a major water crisis. They are urging people to only use water to drink and cook - that's right - don't flush the toilet or do laundry. It will be interesting to see where we are in a few weeks when the water has completely receded. |
That is exactly what we had to do for a week or two until they could get the main water treatment plant back on line after our city flooded two years ago. We set out big garbage cans under our downspouts and collected water to use for flushing the toilet, and even then only flushed when we had to. We showered about every other day and minimized our water for cooking. Actually, I think we had certain days we could shower - odd-numbered houses had these days and even-numbered houses had the other days. Obviously, people weren't to wash their cars or water their lawns or anything.
I think we also had to drink only bottled water for a few days. It's amazing what you can go without when you have to!