Attaboy looks back on damage, remembers employees lost in tornado on one-year anniversary
Attaboy reflects on the last year on the one year anniversary of the March tornado.
and last updated 2021-03-03 22:40:00-05
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â It s been one year since the East Nashville bar, Attaboy, was hit by a deadly tornado. I think with everyone, the relationship with time has been strange. It s felt like a long year and a short year at the same time, Attaboy managing partner Brandon Bramhall said.
When the tornado hit, Attaboy, received some damage to its building, as well as damage from water and mold.
East Nashville, a Year After the Tornado Looking at some of the East Side restaurants and food businesses affected by the March 3 storm Tweet Share The steeple from The Church at Lockeland Springs in East Nashville was sitting on the ground near the church for nearly a year, one of many reminders of the March 3 tornado’s destruction. But a couple weeks ago, a crane lifted the steeple back up to its perch. And several weeks before that, the rehabbed neon sign at Weiss Liquors ripped from its longtime home by the tornado’s deadly winds lit up Main Street again. The steeple and the sign reach toward the sky over two different but historic establishments the church was built in the early 1900s, and the liquor store has been in its East Nashville location since the mid-’60s. They’re beacons of “normal” in a neighborhood ravaged by the storm almost a full year ago.
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Pete Meenen and the Tennesseans We Lost to COVID-19
The state’s first resident claimed by a virus that went on to kill many more
On March 21, the Brentwood Family YMCA shared the news that Pete Meenen, a greeter at the gym and community center for more than 20 years, had died. He was the first person in Tennessee to die from COVID-19.
“Perhaps few faces in a YMCA are as recognizable as the greeter who meets the morning faithful, the early risers who start their day with us when the Welcome Center is a little quieter than usual,” the Brentwood Y’s operations executive, Roger D. Grove, wrote on Facebook. “For more than 20 years, Pete was that face in our YMCA, and his loss will be deeply felt by all of us, our staff and our members.”