It has been strangely ironic that Nashville is currently recovering from its worst flood in history. My house escaped with a flooded basement (it's unfinished so it was no big deal). I spent the weekend before last helping my friend totally gut her house down to the studs. She lost everything and was not required to have flood insurance. At least FEMA seems to be getting this one right.
I took myself down to the Cumberland River and stood on a bridge to watch the debris-strewn, brown water rush by, inundating parts of downtown. I thought of similar scenes viewed from the bridges of Paris exactly 100 years ago during the great Paris flood depicted in my novel, Stealing Mona Lisa. 1910. 2010. Did you know that the original name of this city was Nashborough? During the War of 1812, sentiment was so antagonistic toward the British that the city was renamed, in honor of the country's French allies, Nashville?
I took myself down to the Cumberland River and stood on a bridge to watch the debris-strewn, brown water rush by, inundating parts of downtown. I thought of similar scenes viewed from the bridges of Paris exactly 100 years ago during the great Paris flood depicted in my novel, Stealing Mona Lisa. 1910. 2010. Did you know that the original name of this city was Nashborough? During the War of 1812, sentiment was so antagonistic toward the British that the city was renamed, in honor of the country's French allies, Nashville?
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