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Okay, so I’m not some well dressed meteorologist, but it’s been raining now for what, like 7676256072820850 days straight here in Nashville.  I mean, we’re basically all turning into rain it’s raining so much.

Oh, and guess what’s new now?!  According to the National Weather Service (NWS) East Nashville may be victim to some flooding Tuesday.  A low pressure system is gathering more strength over the lower Mississippi Valley and spreading its rainy doom over much of Tennessee. 

The NWS says Middle Tennessee might see storms today that could produce two to four inches of rain before the system moves out later this evening.

Spots in East Nashville might see even more rain, up to four inches, which would cause flooding in certain areas.  Now if the temperature would just drop some more every hour, then, we might be talking a small East Nash snowman.  Either way, rain rain go away, come again another year!

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist revealed over the weekend that he will not be running for Tennessee’s governor in 2010.

When asked if he was sitting out the race for a potential presidential campaign, Frist flattened that question with a flat no.  Instead Frist says he will be focusing on his continued teaching at Vanderbilt University as well as his private investment work.

This news opens the already crowded floor for the GOP’s gubernatorial nomination.  Governor Phil Bredesen will not be able to run again due to term limits.

Two Nashville residents shot during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India are still recuperating before they can come home next week.

Rudrani Devi and Linda Ragsdale were visiting Mumbai with the Synchronicity Foundation, a community that teaches meditation.

Sadly, two other members of the group also visiting India were killed, a man and his teenage daughter.  The bodies of Alan Scherr and his 13-year-old daughter Naomi are presently being returned to the US for a memorial service in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Our hearts go out to their families.

Devi runs a holistic medicine clinic on 12th Avenue South.

*Linda Ragsdale pictured

It’s a very sad day for the family of Steven Curtis Chapman, whose 5-year-old daughter was struck in the driveway of their home in Franklin on Wednesday.

Maria Sue Chapman was rushed to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital a little after 5pm yesterday, but the injures were too severe and she died.  Maria was one of six children of Steven & Mary Beth Chapman.

Our thoughts go out to the family at this time.