Craiger

Yes the Hermitage / KVB intersection has probably close to a dozen separate spills!

My guess is a combination of bumps in the road and quick acceleration / deceleration. This would explain why it's mostly at intersections.

Not sure where else this would fit so mods feel free to move. Just wanted to rant. I am getting increasingly frustrated with the shear amount of what I assume is spilled concrete at intersections around the city. If you drive into town on Lebanon Pike to 1st Ave, every light has multiple large piles of concrete. Is there any way to hold these folks accountable? Nashville has some of the worst surface streets I’ve encountered and this along with all of the “repaired” holes that developers dig for utilities is a large contributing factor in my opinion.

https://tennesseelookout.com/2021/01/19/metro-council-vote-could-be-a-final-hurdle-to-oracle-investing-in-nashville/

Hotel cubes. You don’t get your own personal cube, but instead find one for the day that you are in the office. These are of course much smaller than traditional cubes.

Heard from a friend that at least some groups will be moving to a more remote first work setting post Covid with only “hotels” in the office. Not sure if this will have any impact on that 3rd building option or how widespread it is within the company.

No. If better communication was had, the city and hopefully it’s residents would have known sooner that they were going to be flooded. They had to release from the dams or the dams were going to overtop. Overtopping dams fail. The choice was between letting a lot of water out or a high risk of ALL the water. There was a long report on this from the Army Corps and NWS. Generally when I reference it, folks just say it was a cover up because they just don’t want to believe that 20 inches of rain can cause catastrophic flooding of their city.

Smeags has a history of insulting Cooper for his appearance. I called him out once before and the entire board attacked me.

There also were no mismanaged dams. There was bad communication of necessary dam releases that were performed to keep those dams being dams instead of an open river.

Wow those interior shots of the Hyatt look great. Add the Four Seasons and Conrad, and Nashville has really upped its hotel game.

True. And now that I think about it more, the view of downtown from those windows will probably be a nice trade off.

I’m excited for this, but personally would rather not work right next to that gas depot / storage tank. I know it’s not like extremely dangerous, but it’s a bit dangerous and definitely unsightly.

Here is the permit for the second tower: https://epermits.nashville.gov/#/permit/3856431?page=1&searchText=1010 Church&searchCode=ADDR&searchType=permit&orderBy=permitNumber DESC

While i disagree with the premise that Obama actively divided the nation, for the sake of argument let’s assume it’s true. What I’m concerned about is not Trump further dividing the nation. I’m worried about him literally destroying democracy in America. That is a lot more worrisome than political division. As i already stated above, he floated the idea of postponing the election coincidentally when he’s well down in the polls. The day after proposing to postpone the election, his administration condemned China for postponing Hong Kong’s elections! He rails against mail in voting with zero evidence of real widespread issues, oh but not for Florida where’s he’s decided to make an exception. On the topic of elections, he still claims there were 3 million (the number he lost by) illegal votes in 2016 again with zero evidence. Does all that not worry you at a much more existential level than “division?” im not going to go too far into this Alzheimer theory other than to say if Biden is mentally unfit than Trump is only more so. I’d love to see trump ride a bike.

If point B is counter to point A and point C comes later in support of point A, point C is necessarily counter to point B. right?

“Personally, I maintain we would be where we are today, regardless of who was in leadership - local or national - because of, well, the people” this is literally the same argument as smeags, and RJ i think is trying to argue against that. You don’t like him arguing against that because it’s your belief as well.p so you delete it. Edit: didn’t mean to post so quickly.

If you go look at smeags original post, he talks about both sides being to blame. That’s allowed because it appears neutral, but when you have someone like Trump in office literally proposing to delay the election, a “both sides” argument is an argument equal to “trump ain’t that bad.” I don’t want to speak for RJ if for no other reason than they are way more eloquently spoken than I am, but I assume this is what they have a problem with.

I’d say it’s probably turned “leftist” in the past few years because everyone is worried about the authoritarian wanna be dictator in the WH. Get back to two sane parties that disagree on how to run government instead of one party turning a blind eye to probably the most ignorant corrupt president in history. Then maybe things will calm down outside of normal politics spheres as well.

Official topping out will be next week on this apparently.

Ok which construction company wants to donate the pedestrian bridge to connect Peeler park to the Stones River greenway over the Cumberland? Get a chance to show up these Bell folks.

From a public heath standpoint, having a peaceful outdoor protest is much preferred vs arresting hundreds or thousands and shoving them in a jail together.

I found the tweet I referenced above.

I think they said today that 3 people that have tested positive participated in protests so far. They haven't linked spread back to them at all. Being outside is a huge limiter of transmission. This is why they are keeping dog parks / playgrounds / pools open in this new phase. They haven't tracked any large spread back to these activities either. Combine that with a decent number of protesters wearing masks and it's a very low risk event.

Hospitalization is a lagging indicator. You don’t get sick one day, go get tested the next, and on the 3rd day go to the hospital. I think it does make sense for somewhat reduced hospitizations as those going out are more likely to be younger and healthier since the disease is now well known whereas at the beginning at risk individuals were out and about just as much.