Edited sentence: However, this has also led to further community solidarity and outpouring of volunteerism to such organizations as Hands On Nashville and the American Red Cross, which, among other organizations, have been key in organizing volunteers and support for damaged and in-need communities and individuals.Many explanations, of which none may actually be adequate or plausible, have been suggested, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill overshadowing the disaster in Tennessee.Many have asked why what was perhaps one of the largest non-hurricane flood disasters in American history and the worst destruction to hit Tennessee since the Civil War has been essentially ignored by the national media.People and communities affected by the flood have been surprised that there has been little to no national media coverage of the flooding.This has been epitomized in many blogs and news articles, of which the Nashville Scene's "Pith in the Wind" for May 6, 2010 is perhaps one of the better representations