Not waving but drowning

As many of you know, I made Tennessee my home before moving to Seattle in 2006. I spent about a dozen years in Chattanooga, attending a private Christian college in one of the outlying towns – and then the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where I got my graduate degree.

I like Tennessee.

I didn't realize how much I'd grown to like it until I left it.

So now there are these floods, swamping Nashville and many other communities in the middle and western portions of the state. At this p...