Connect the dots: Oil disaster in the Gulf and record-smashing floods in Tennessee

CP has been blogging about BP's Titanic oil disaster and the record-smashing TN rains.  I'm pleased to have a guest post from Dominique Browning on those two subjects.  She is author of the new book Slow Love. She writes regularly for The New York Times Book Review, Wired, and others.  This is a repost from her monthly column for the Environmental Defense Fund website:

I went to Franklin, Tennessee for a visit that was supposed to end last Saturday, but I was marooned by flooding from the...