If you prayed for a white Christmas, you should have been more specific.

This is a high fatality count. The extent of the damage and the severity will probably not be very clear until we get the sun in the morning.

We have misgivings about it. We’d like to stay out of that.

My previous director used to say he would immediately file two forms in the event of a major earthquake. The first would be the request to FEMA for a disaster declaration, the second his retirement...

I don’t want to wish this on Mississippi, but it would be good if it left Tennessee alone this time.

When we look at county maps, we have four sightings in 12 counties in a short enough period of time that it is highly doubtful it was all one twister. We’re getting damage reports from...

Unfortunately when Mother Nature gets mean, there’s nothing that can be done.

Some folks are moving out into communities and putting down some roots.

Downtown Clarksville no doubt looks like the proverbial war zone.

Last night (Monday) we were asked if we could take more. We told them we could take 3,000 from Texas.

I don’t look for any major improvement until the day after Christmas. The next time temperatures will be above freezing will be Saturday.

I know of some shelters that are not at capacity.

The best I can figure out, this is the most loss of life we’ve had in a single weather event in one day.

Downtown Clarksville looks like the proverbial war zone.

I don’t think we’ve ever talked about pre-positioning food caches before.

The decision was made by the director of operations. I think it was a pretty good catch.

He signed stuff all day.