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Help our doggies! We need to rebuild their dog park we lost in the Nashville flood!
Dear 20sb!
I am reaching out to you today for a very important reason and because we are the best community ever who cares about making a difference. As many of you who follow me on Twitter (@StephanieOlsen) know, our town just suffered a devestating 1000 year flood (as named by the Army Corps of Engineers) that has been quoted as being the most costly non-hurricane natural disaster in our nation's history.
Nashville and countless other counties in the Middle TN area have been declared federal disaster areas. My town, Kingston Springs, was completely devestated by the Harpeth River when we received at least 18 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Our elementary school was completely submerged and is now ruined. Homes were literally swallowed and swept off their foundations by what used to be small creeks. Roads and bridges were completely washed away and my husband and I sat in our home, one of the few neighborhoods in our town not completely submerged, and watched our town literally drown under us. Check out my pics on Facebook www.facebook.com/stephanie.olsen
People have died, businesses and homes are in utter ruin, and our town is scrambling to rebuild.
As we have been out in our community helping to rebuild, family by family, it is apparent that one of the greatest losses, in all of this, is our beloved dog park. That might sound silly when you hear of the millions of dollars in damage, but to our town, the loss is huge.
The dog park was a community hub that brought us together every day to be with our neighbors. But it did not stand a chance against a 40+ foot raging river. Our dog park is completely destroyed and needs to be rebuilt and with all of our efforts going to rebuild homes and businesses, our dog park will not take precedence.
I have watched my community come together to take care of their own. I could tell you about how we have banned together to raise funeral funds for a widow who lost her husband and her home all in the same day, only to wake up and realize that with no flood insurance she could not even afford to bury her husband. I could tell you about how people, young and old, have worked together to help their neighbors by getting dirty and ripping apart and salvaging what is left of homes and businesses.
So, yes, a dog park might seem trivial, but to us it would be a sign of hope and normalcy in a world where all hope and normalcy has literally been swept away.
So what can you do? I'm glad you asked!
I am reaching out to you today for a very important reason and because we are the best community ever who cares about making a difference. As many of you who follow me on Twitter (@StephanieOlsen) know, our town just suffered a devestating 1000 year flood (as named by the Army Corps of Engineers) that has been quoted as being the most costly non-hurricane natural disaster in our nation's history.
Nashville and countless other counties in the Middle TN area have been declared federal disaster areas. My town, Kingston Springs, was completely devestated by the Harpeth River when we received at least 18 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Our elementary school was completely submerged and is now ruined. Homes were literally swallowed and swept off their foundations by what used to be small creeks. Roads and bridges were completely washed away and my husband and I sat in our home, one of the few neighborhoods in our town not completely submerged, and watched our town literally drown under us. Check out my pics on Facebook www.facebook.com/stephanie.olsen
People have died, businesses and homes are in utter ruin, and our town is scrambling to rebuild.
As we have been out in our community helping to rebuild, family by family, it is apparent that one of the greatest losses, in all of this, is our beloved dog park. That might sound silly when you hear of the millions of dollars in damage, but to our town, the loss is huge.
The dog park was a community hub that brought us together every day to be with our neighbors. But it did not stand a chance against a 40+ foot raging river. Our dog park is completely destroyed and needs to be rebuilt and with all of our efforts going to rebuild homes and businesses, our dog park will not take precedence.
I have watched my community come together to take care of their own. I could tell you about how we have banned together to raise funeral funds for a widow who lost her husband and her home all in the same day, only to wake up and realize that with no flood insurance she could not even afford to bury her husband. I could tell you about how people, young and old, have worked together to help their neighbors by getting dirty and ripping apart and salvaging what is left of homes and businesses.
So, yes, a dog park might seem trivial, but to us it would be a sign of hope and normalcy in a world where all hope and normalcy has literally been swept away.
So what can you do? I'm glad you asked!
We have a neighbor who submitted a video for our town to enter a contest from Beneful to help us build our dog park and WE NEED VOTES!!!
1. Go here: and in the upper right hand corner you can "rate" it with FIVE paws and submit -easy peasy!
2. You can hit those awesome Facebook and Twitter buttons and ask people to help us by voting!
3. You could write a blog post and link them to my hometown blog. Look at the pics from the community and you will see how awesome our town is. http://kingstonsprings.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/dear-purina-beneful...
I THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. You have no idea how much your help would mean to me and to hundreds of other families!
Love you all,
Stephanie
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