What the Tornadoes in Nashville Revealed
The day after the storm was a day of paradoxes.
A few years ago, I wrote a song called “Five Minutes.” This week, after tornadoes ripped through Nashville, a friend texted me a line from my song: “In five minutes, your whole life can change.”
In the early hours on Tuesday, my husband received a phone call from his son, warning us that a tornado was headed our way. A middle-of-the-night phone call is enough to send my adrenaline soaring, and within seconds both of our iPhones sounded the alert and the sirens on our street started wailing. Almost immediately, the power went out. We had approximately five minutes to get to our safe space, a windowless bathroom in our 150-year-old house in
