So apparently the cost of living in Nashville rose by $9,000 in the last year.

That is not a typo. There is not an extra zero added on to the end there.

It's been real, transplants, but y'all can go home now.

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Oh my God. The city is planning to build a rink in my neighborhood. I literally live ten minutes, if that, from the proposed site. AHHHHHHHH ( Read more... )

It's been overshadowed, as usual, by what the same storm system's doing to the east coast, but Nashville got its biggest snowstorm in almost fifteen years yesterday. We topped out at eight inches. It snowed from about 7 AM to after 9 PM, which I don't remember ever seeing down here. It was quite impressive ( Read more... )

It snowed, sleeted, and freezing rained last night, changing over to rain sometime early in the morning. The ice from earlier this week is half-melted, many storm drains are blocked, and we are now under a flood watch.

Well done, Nashville.

More pictures from Tuesday (when it was icy and sunny) are on FlickrSince the rain had changed everything ( Read more... )

Well, thank you, Mother Nature. Instead of the 5" of plowable snow I was promised, you gave me half an inch of unmelting ice, some sleet on top, and maybe snow to follow, though frankly they've been saying that for a while and it's still a sleetfest/freezing rain fiesta at my house. That's just great. I'm having visions of '94 ( Read more... )

My actual root canal this morning was actually much less exciting than the "getting numb" part. I warned the endodontist that it takes "kill an elephant" quantities of anesthetic to numb my mouth, and he responded by doubling his usual dosage. Which gave me a mild reaction from the epinephrine used in the solution to make it last longer, but at ( Read more... )

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Weather.com just revised its ten-day forecast to look like THIS. Seven straight days of temperatures above one hundred, including one day of ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN? Surely someone over at the National Weather Service is on some really excellent drugs. SURELY ( Read more... )

As promised, photos from my expedition the other day. We just missed the peak fall foliage there; it was perfect in the yard, but the lake is a tiny bit colder and thus a tiny bit further along, apparently. Plus the dry summer didn't make for the most spectacular colors. Still, there were pretties to be photographed, and there's a setting on my ( Read more... )