Election Day In Disaster Zone

Pausing on reader emails from Seattle for this dispatch from TPM Reader BP in Nashville:

Just wanted to give a heads up on how things are going here in Nashville after last night’s tornado. My home is two miles from the path, so the only issue I have is no power. Besides all the damage and deaths that have been reported, several voting precincts were either damaged, without power, or not reachable. My precinct had no power.