Final post: Donate to flood relief for Vandy employees

Mike and I are graduating Friday, so this is my final post here at Vandy Right (I will, however, be blogging here). If I don’t see you around the internet, have yourself an excellent summer/life. Anyway, in the sterling tradition of this blog, I’ve done two things I said I wouldn’t, and now I’m going to tell you about them:

The first, of course, was creating this Cornelius “we are nashville” business at right, because the whole “We Are [Proper Noun]” trend lights no fire under me, except confusion with the grammar and redundancy of it. But for you, Nashville, I will participate.

Second was donating to Vanderbilt. That is, I donated to the Vanderbilt flood relief fund. Over 1100 Vanderbilt faculty and employees were affected by the flooding. ELEVEN HUNDRED. If you don’t go to Vandy or don’t live in Nashville, you will have to trust me on this, but people who work at Vandy are pretty much uniformly easygoing, good people. In every office, every lunch counter, really anywhere, you find pleasant people just doing their jobs. And 1100 of them were affected by the flood.

When we drove out to Bellevue for dinner late last week, we could see exactly where the Harpeth had flooded on the trees — in some places, like, eight feet high — and just piles and piles of belongings, sorted like Metro asked, out in the front yards of house after house. That was just on Highway 100. Between downtown where business and history got slammed, and down south of Nashville, where homes in Bellevue, Franklin, and then in East Nashville got wrecked, the damage defies belief.

So, if you’re looking for somewhere to donate money to the fine people of Nashville, give the Vanderbilt employee flood relief a good hard look right here.

Tagged as: good causes, metapost, Vanderbilt