We Bounce Back

We can let our watery ordeal be our River Styx or our gateway to a renewed and more unified Middle Tennessee. This event has received nowhere near the national and international attention the story would have received if our comportment had been less decorous (as in New Orleans post-Katrina) or than what the scope of damage merited as was pointed out in a forwarded e-mail correspondence I received from a devoted and much appreciated reader and later echoed to a national audience by Tennessee's own internationally-renowned entertainer Kenny Chesney. The massive expense generated by the flood losses should be the perfect rationale to shelf plans for a new convention center until all recovery needs are met and until the national economy returns to its feet where such a convention center could actually generate enough business to not force a general obligation down the throats of the majority of Nashville residents who will never benefit from it and to whom it will only represent an additional burden to pay for along with our flood losses. Let Middle Tennessee take this chance with so much already being washed away to start doing things right.