Nashville was my home for two years after I graduated college. Prior to that, I spent five years in college in a small town that was about an hour and a half away from Nashville, so there were a lot of road trips on weekends to partake in what the big city had to offer. From 1993 to 2000, Music City was a major part of my life.
It has been very difficult for me to watch the videos and see the pictures of the flooding there. I cried when I saw the devastation at the Opryland Hotel and the Tennessee Titans football stadium. I suspect that the apartment complex I lived in was flooded and I am pretty sure that the small advertising company I worked for was, too. Did you see the school building floating down the interstate, until it hit a semi and broke into pieces? That happened in an area that I drove through every day on my way to and from work. The restaurant employee that was swept away in the floodwaters worked only a mile or two from where I used to live. It is heartbreaking to hear and watch and see these things and know that you can’t be there physically to help and can’t donate because you’re in a financially precarious situation yourself. Many of my college friends live there now and several have lost either their home or their job. I have been praying that a way for me to help would present itself and today it did…SwagBucks is allowing members to donate their swagbucks to the cause!
If you’re not already signed up with SwagBucks, do it here. You get 30 SBs just for signing up, so even if you just sign up and donate those it helps out Nashville. In the interest of full disclosure, that is my referral link. However, I will donate all of the swagbucks I get from referrals to Nashville Flood Relief until they close down donations. It’s the least I can do for a city I called home.
