The Tennessee big chill

By: Bruce Barry

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: February 4, 2026

Words: 1,443

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Many Nashvillians are seriously miffed with the city’s response to Winter Storm A-Cable-TV-Channel-Named-It-Fern, and with the benefit of several days of hotel room social media gloom-and-doomscrolling the picture came into clear focus and I’m ready to share it.

As it turns out a supersized ice apocalypse that everyone on planet earth except Mayor Freddie O’Connell and the Nashville Electric Service saw coming plunged Music City into a frozen darkness, paralyzing a leadership-challenged radical …

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