Ta, Dok. What was that? Oh, nothing, just got hit in the head by a flying pig. I feel so bad for the residents of western NC, even though most of them would never vote my way. I believe in voting, even by people who would not want me voting. I believe in voting.
I can see the republican party cross-checking voter registration records with homes red-tagged or otherwise deemed unlivable. You got no address, you can't vote!
I am so sorry, NC. I hope everyone can see that allowing voting to count by restoring polling places, extending the deadline at least 3 days, and so on will affect both sides, so doing the good things should prevail. And if this doesn't convince voters in NC that climate change is real, already here, and going to get worse, I feel bad for them. Imagine a category 5 or 6 hurricane stopping by and staying awhile!
I checked in on one of my college friends who lives in Winston-Salem the other day. She was very concerned about NC’s ability to vote under the circumstances.
Every Fall they hold a doomsday preppers camp in Western NC, where they pitch tents in the woods and talk about surviving the apocalypse and buy and sell knives and crossbows and various dehydrated foods.
This year’s convention was held the week of the storm. They didn’t cancel it.
Apparently they got trapped when the roads washed out and now they are stuck in the mud without fresh water and need to be rescued
If they're preppers, surely they shouldn't need the nanny-state to rescue them. Or was their only doomsday prep preparation for a shortage of Krispy Kremes?
Classic case of: When disaster strikes my opponent, I'll do everything in my power to make voting next to impossible. But when disaster strikes my people, I'll break my own laws like they don't exist, embrace voting that I find most vile, like dropping of ballots at a central location. I'll even get on a mule and find the missing voters personally, and give them each a ballot, so my Dearest Leader can reign supreme!1!!!
-
Don't be surprised if we see "feel good" stories like this in the next month or so of people doing "heroic" things to make sure that people in the mountainous disaster areas get the chance to vote. And if the disaster took place in Raleigh, the GQP would have that poll worker locked away in a black site location.
Biden’s upcoming visit follows his visit to the Carolinas yesterday where he met with local and state officials and first responders.
On Wednesday, Biden amended North Carolina and Georgia’s disaster declaration by authorizing an increase in the level of federal funding for emergency work undertaken in the wake of the hurricane.
“Under the president’s order today, federal funds for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, has been increased to 100% of the total eligible costs for 90 days from the start of the incident period,” the White House said.
The hurricane, which has killed nearly 200 people in recent days across multiple states, has been used as a major talking point by Trump’s campaign team as the former president and his running mate, JD Vance, cast skepticism toward climate change.
During Tuesday’s debate, Vance appeared to call the climate crisis “weird science” by saying: “One of the things that I’ve noticed some of our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions – this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change … Let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument, so we’re not arguing about weird science. Let’s just say that’s true.”
"𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑂𝑂𝑅 𝐺𝑅𝐴𝐷𝐸𝑆" Wow, you know they are doing a bad job when the Andromeda and Pegasus galactic press comes out against them.
Damn. I'm sorry NC is having such trouble. I really am. That said, I had a friend who lived in Asheville and she was always complaining about the streets flooding. Shouldn't they have been more prepared? Clearly NC has been through this before. It just seems like there should be a plan in place that they can just run with. That's true everywhere of course but it seems few places are planning adequately for the inevitable disruptions that are going to occur with greater frequency.
I live in a smallish town eastern NC. We had completely remodeled a house when Florence hit. Two years later we found another house on higher ground and moved. We have friends who were flooded during Florence and moved across the river to a house with the same elevation!?!?
When I had a campus interview at Appalachian State University, they were sure to mention the fact that their building routinely floods and causes issues. They had a stack of sandbags ready for the normal nuisance flooding.
I know they cancelled classes for a few days, but Boone got hit hard. I'm sure recovery on that area is slow and challenging also, although news reports have focused on different towns mostly.
The thing about Asheville/Western North Carolina, along with the Upstate of South Carolina, was the long held belief that hurricanes wouldn't majorly impact those parts of the twin state area. Of course, hurricanes will directly affect Eastern Northern Carolina/Outer Banks, the Tri Cities, Charlotte, Myrtle Beach, the Lowcountry/Charleston, Hilton Head, Savannah, and the Midlands of South Carolina (Columbia). Normally, hurricanes from the Atlantic would hit the areas that I just listed, do major damage, and move on their way. This would leave Western North Carolina, the Upstate, and the Central Savannah River Area with the center city of Augusta, Georgia, either on the "good" side of what was left of the hurricane, with just some rain and relatively minor winds, or they would miss the storm entirely. But no one in their right mind (and I would imagine most 20th Century scientists based on the books that I read on hurricanes as a young kid) would have ever guessed that a hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico would have stayed so strong so far inland and do the amount of damage that Helene did. But thanks to climate change and the highest mountains of the entire Appalachian chain being in the direct path of Helene, here we are.
As a physical geographer who taught classes on risks and hazards, I can assure you that plenty of people understand that hurricanes can hit far inland into the mountains. There's abundant historical records of this.
It was 1972. My house (rented) was on Allyson Hill, so out of the flood zone. I volunteered for Civil Defense as an above-ground courier. There was very limited phone service; most communication was by radio. We flew helicopters full of food to people who were sheltering in a high school. Interesting times and all that.
A bunch of NYT articles listed places like Asheville and Burlington VT as climate refuges. They seem to ignore stuff like wildfire risks, and in VT's case, flooding.
French Broad, Swannanoa, Pigeon, Toe, New, Linville, Watauga, Yadkin, Catawba, Nolichucky.... These mountains are littered with rivers from top to bottom, and if there's a town, it's most likely situated along or very near one, and consequently subject to flooding. Otherwise everything would be built high up on the sides of the mountains, where there's no flat land, and that's just not how it works. (See: landslides, prohibitive costs.) Asheville is a sprawling city, you don't look at it and think "that's all going to flood." Sure, when you build the "River Arts District," it's only a matter of time. But saying "stop building there" is like telling people "don't build within twenty miles of that there Mississippi River, because floods." What percentage of us don't live somewhere that would suffer devastating consequences in the event of a comparable storm?
Obviously people are going to build along rivers. That's not my complaint. My complaint is not having a plan in place, or better yet, infrastucture to deal with being in a lowland surrounded by rivers.
Those of us who live in Michigan? Seriously, when we looked at flood insurance there was zero threat to us. Even though we live on a lake. Without the topography of mountains and valleys, even the heaviest rains only flood very narrow areas around some rivers.
It’s true there’s a random (very small) tornado threat, but, except for that, we don’t have earthquakes, hurricanes, large wildfires, or any other significant weather events here.
Plus, when other places in the south turn into a convection oven, we’ll be a bit warmer but not that bad.
As a bonus, we’re getting fewer winter storms. The only negative is for ice fishermen. Our annual ice fishing contest this year had to be canceled, because the lake never froze over enough to ice fish.
Plus, there's a reason a lot of people are moving to that part of North Carolina. It's due to the elevation of this region. Most of these valleys where the people are moving to sit at 2,000 to 3,000 feet above sea level. Which means during the summer time, cooler temps. When I'm non commenting here in Columbia, SC at 102 degrees (elv. 315), Greenville, SC is at 98 (elv. 1000), a place like Swannanoa, NC (elv. 2,225) is at 91 degrees.
Apparently the new hospital in Tennessee that was flooded up to the roof was built on land that flooded several times in the past 50 years, although none as severe as this flood. Now I doubt anything can be done other than tear it down and hope the county rebuilds outside of the flood plain. With accounting for a higher flood plain in the future. Even if they did decide to tear out and sanitize the interior and replace every bit of medical equipment in the hospital, would any insurance company cover a rehabbed building that was ten feet under water and likely to flood again in the future.
In 2020 - I had just broke my back in September - then in the last week of October I volunteered for CPR 3 separate times - I don’t know what I told EMS - probably something like - “Bring me back, I haven’t voted yet.” - anyway - I didn’t trust DeJoy not to ratfuck the mail-in voting - so I took my two canes and went to the polling station - Arizona wasn’t done with the voter suppression thing - they had two guys in full-riot gear stationed at each polling station - that’s not going to intimidate anyone is it - so come on Tennessee you can drag your wet-asses to polls - and vote for Kamala and Tim -
I have noticed - that having a severe injury and 3 NDE’s has definitely mellowed my personality - or have none of you fuckers noticed - I actually do wonder what my noncomments were like in the 2020 election cycle - full of gentle charm and wit - I suppose -
If it's the rurals who are impacted the worst, then that's a shame.
Ta, Dok. What was that? Oh, nothing, just got hit in the head by a flying pig. I feel so bad for the residents of western NC, even though most of them would never vote my way. I believe in voting, even by people who would not want me voting. I believe in voting.
I'm from western NC. Nothing I own was damaged. I'll accept that. This is why I haven't been here for a while.
I can see the republican party cross-checking voter registration records with homes red-tagged or otherwise deemed unlivable. You got no address, you can't vote!
I am so sorry, NC. I hope everyone can see that allowing voting to count by restoring polling places, extending the deadline at least 3 days, and so on will affect both sides, so doing the good things should prevail. And if this doesn't convince voters in NC that climate change is real, already here, and going to get worse, I feel bad for them. Imagine a category 5 or 6 hurricane stopping by and staying awhile!
I checked in on one of my college friends who lives in Winston-Salem the other day. She was very concerned about NC’s ability to vote under the circumstances.
NYT has a very good read about how the Republican Legislature made this worse:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/north-carolina-homes-helene-building-codes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU4.Mpf2.A4MFrw_prM7d&smid=url-share
"who could have possibly imagined that making it more difficult to adapt voting procedures could potentially harm voters the Lege likes?"
Am I allowed a sour grapes raspberry here to the lack of foresight of the Evil fuckwad vote suppressors?
Every Fall they hold a doomsday preppers camp in Western NC, where they pitch tents in the woods and talk about surviving the apocalypse and buy and sell knives and crossbows and various dehydrated foods.
This year’s convention was held the week of the storm. They didn’t cancel it.
Apparently they got trapped when the roads washed out and now they are stuck in the mud without fresh water and need to be rescued
Whose apocalypse prepping doesn't include water purification?? What an embarrassment. I hope they feel every ounce of that humiliation.
Just like Libertarians and Bears, the natural enemy of prepper militias is Rain.
Also too reality.
At least they're prepared for anything!
I'd love to see some reporting about this.
I'd love a news article on this!
I haven't seen a news article yet. I just know this from a friend who monitors those groups
Put one on, if you find it. I'm giggling over this.
Embedded Journalist account needed!
I’m mean. I find that Grade A hilarious. I hope they are muddy and miserable but that they don’t die. Relish your failure my dudes.
If they're preppers, surely they shouldn't need the nanny-state to rescue them. Or was their only doomsday prep preparation for a shortage of Krispy Kremes?
They received a shipment of 1,000 didoes instead of cheetos....math and spelling error.
Who could have guessed that Republicans making it hard to vote in red states could potentially hurt Republican turnout, it’s a puzzle for sure
I love this because it was a square on my "Democracy, Fuck Yeah" Bingo card.
Classic case of: When disaster strikes my opponent, I'll do everything in my power to make voting next to impossible. But when disaster strikes my people, I'll break my own laws like they don't exist, embrace voting that I find most vile, like dropping of ballots at a central location. I'll even get on a mule and find the missing voters personally, and give them each a ballot, so my Dearest Leader can reign supreme!1!!!
-
Don't be surprised if we see "feel good" stories like this in the next month or so of people doing "heroic" things to make sure that people in the mountainous disaster areas get the chance to vote. And if the disaster took place in Raleigh, the GQP would have that poll worker locked away in a black site location.
IOIYAAR
So Trump will claim the Dems sent the hurricane to North Carolina to do election fraud against him?
Yep. Joe Biden refused to change the course of the storm with his Sharpie.
You betcha, with that climate machine up in Alaska do all of the heavy lifting for the Kamala/Walz campaign!!1!
Yup. SLEEPY JOE. Not doing a damn thing. Not Kamabla either.
𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡
𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 200 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒.
Biden’s upcoming visit follows his visit to the Carolinas yesterday where he met with local and state officials and first responders.
On Wednesday, Biden amended North Carolina and Georgia’s disaster declaration by authorizing an increase in the level of federal funding for emergency work undertaken in the wake of the hurricane.
“Under the president’s order today, federal funds for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, has been increased to 100% of the total eligible costs for 90 days from the start of the incident period,” the White House said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/03/donald-trump-kamala-harris-us-election
Moving this over from TABs, where it went up a little late...
𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐞.
The former president wrote:
𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑂𝑂𝑅 𝐺𝑅𝐴𝐷𝐸𝑆 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒, 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑎. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑂𝑅𝑆𝑇 & 𝑀𝑂𝑆𝑇 𝐼𝑁𝐶𝑂𝑀𝑃𝐸𝑇𝐸𝑁𝑇𝐿𝑌 𝑀𝐴𝑁𝐴𝐺𝐸𝐷 ‘𝑆𝑇𝑂𝑅𝑀,’ 𝐴𝑇 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝐸𝐷𝐸𝑅𝐴𝐿 𝐿𝐸𝑉𝐸𝐿, 𝐸𝑉𝐸𝑅 𝑆𝐸𝐸𝑁 𝐵𝐸𝐹𝑂𝑅𝐸 – 𝐵𝑈𝑇 𝑇𝐻𝐸𝐼𝑅 𝑀𝐴𝑁𝐴𝐺𝐸𝑀𝐸𝑁𝑇 𝑂𝐹 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐵𝑂𝑅𝐷𝐸𝑅 𝐼𝑆 𝑊𝑂𝑅𝑆𝐸! 𝑀𝐴𝐺𝐴2024.”
The hurricane, which has killed nearly 200 people in recent days across multiple states, has been used as a major talking point by Trump’s campaign team as the former president and his running mate, JD Vance, cast skepticism toward climate change.
During Tuesday’s debate, Vance appeared to call the climate crisis “weird science” by saying: “One of the things that I’ve noticed some of our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions – this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change … Let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument, so we’re not arguing about weird science. Let’s just say that’s true.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/03/donald-trump-kamala-harris-us-election
"They haven't thrown ANY paper towels! How do they expect people who have lost everything to manage without a roll of paper towels?"
Guy That Let COVID Go Wild On His Watch Blames Current President For Hurricane
"The hurricane never would have formed if I was president."
Shoulda lent Joe your magic Sharpie, then!
"𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑂𝑂𝑅 𝐺𝑅𝐴𝐷𝐸𝑆" Wow, you know they are doing a bad job when the Andromeda and Pegasus galactic press comes out against them.
And here all this time I've been hanging around AP waiting for Allmans and Phish.
Fatso would be saying that if President Biden were there in person, flinging boulders around like Superman.
Damn. I'm sorry NC is having such trouble. I really am. That said, I had a friend who lived in Asheville and she was always complaining about the streets flooding. Shouldn't they have been more prepared? Clearly NC has been through this before. It just seems like there should be a plan in place that they can just run with. That's true everywhere of course but it seems few places are planning adequately for the inevitable disruptions that are going to occur with greater frequency.
I live in a smallish town eastern NC. We had completely remodeled a house when Florence hit. Two years later we found another house on higher ground and moved. We have friends who were flooded during Florence and moved across the river to a house with the same elevation!?!?
Don't they have a Republican Supermajority? Why isn't this shit fixed?
Republican State Congress's are universally declaimed as the "WORST" in any State!
When I had a campus interview at Appalachian State University, they were sure to mention the fact that their building routinely floods and causes issues. They had a stack of sandbags ready for the normal nuisance flooding.
I know they cancelled classes for a few days, but Boone got hit hard. I'm sure recovery on that area is slow and challenging also, although news reports have focused on different towns mostly.
Boone remembers losing their railroad back in 1940 from a flood almost as bad as Helene. Of course they're crazy prepared.
That's good to hear. I never moved there so I know less about the area than I probably should.
The thing about Asheville/Western North Carolina, along with the Upstate of South Carolina, was the long held belief that hurricanes wouldn't majorly impact those parts of the twin state area. Of course, hurricanes will directly affect Eastern Northern Carolina/Outer Banks, the Tri Cities, Charlotte, Myrtle Beach, the Lowcountry/Charleston, Hilton Head, Savannah, and the Midlands of South Carolina (Columbia). Normally, hurricanes from the Atlantic would hit the areas that I just listed, do major damage, and move on their way. This would leave Western North Carolina, the Upstate, and the Central Savannah River Area with the center city of Augusta, Georgia, either on the "good" side of what was left of the hurricane, with just some rain and relatively minor winds, or they would miss the storm entirely. But no one in their right mind (and I would imagine most 20th Century scientists based on the books that I read on hurricanes as a young kid) would have ever guessed that a hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico would have stayed so strong so far inland and do the amount of damage that Helene did. But thanks to climate change and the highest mountains of the entire Appalachian chain being in the direct path of Helene, here we are.
As a physical geographer who taught classes on risks and hazards, I can assure you that plenty of people understand that hurricanes can hit far inland into the mountains. There's abundant historical records of this.
I was in central PA in 1972 when Hurricane Agnes blew through. The only saving grace was that the dam on the Susquehanna did not fail.
I'm sure that was quite an event! And dam failures are crazy scary.
It was 1972. My house (rented) was on Allyson Hill, so out of the flood zone. I volunteered for Civil Defense as an above-ground courier. There was very limited phone service; most communication was by radio. We flew helicopters full of food to people who were sheltering in a high school. Interesting times and all that.
I imagine there are climate scientists with models showing this very outcome.
I found it utterly incomprehensible, reading a news story that described people as moving there to avoid the impacts of climate change...
They moved, to a city, at the base of foothills, at the confluence of two rivers, in a FLOOD BASIN.
FFS people, stop building cities in flood basins and flood plains and shit.
A bunch of NYT articles listed places like Asheville and Burlington VT as climate refuges. They seem to ignore stuff like wildfire risks, and in VT's case, flooding.
French Broad, Swannanoa, Pigeon, Toe, New, Linville, Watauga, Yadkin, Catawba, Nolichucky.... These mountains are littered with rivers from top to bottom, and if there's a town, it's most likely situated along or very near one, and consequently subject to flooding. Otherwise everything would be built high up on the sides of the mountains, where there's no flat land, and that's just not how it works. (See: landslides, prohibitive costs.) Asheville is a sprawling city, you don't look at it and think "that's all going to flood." Sure, when you build the "River Arts District," it's only a matter of time. But saying "stop building there" is like telling people "don't build within twenty miles of that there Mississippi River, because floods." What percentage of us don't live somewhere that would suffer devastating consequences in the event of a comparable storm?
Obviously people are going to build along rivers. That's not my complaint. My complaint is not having a plan in place, or better yet, infrastucture to deal with being in a lowland surrounded by rivers.
Those of us who live in Michigan? Seriously, when we looked at flood insurance there was zero threat to us. Even though we live on a lake. Without the topography of mountains and valleys, even the heaviest rains only flood very narrow areas around some rivers.
It’s true there’s a random (very small) tornado threat, but, except for that, we don’t have earthquakes, hurricanes, large wildfires, or any other significant weather events here.
Plus, when other places in the south turn into a convection oven, we’ll be a bit warmer but not that bad.
As a bonus, we’re getting fewer winter storms. The only negative is for ice fishermen. Our annual ice fishing contest this year had to be canceled, because the lake never froze over enough to ice fish.
Well, don't worry, by 2030 the Hurricanes will get there too.
Plus, there's a reason a lot of people are moving to that part of North Carolina. It's due to the elevation of this region. Most of these valleys where the people are moving to sit at 2,000 to 3,000 feet above sea level. Which means during the summer time, cooler temps. When I'm non commenting here in Columbia, SC at 102 degrees (elv. 315), Greenville, SC is at 98 (elv. 1000), a place like Swannanoa, NC (elv. 2,225) is at 91 degrees.
We're at 3300 feet in Ashe County. If it gets above 80, we start bitching about the heat.
I thought Asheville was lower than that. My bad.
Apparently the new hospital in Tennessee that was flooded up to the roof was built on land that flooded several times in the past 50 years, although none as severe as this flood. Now I doubt anything can be done other than tear it down and hope the county rebuilds outside of the flood plain. With accounting for a higher flood plain in the future. Even if they did decide to tear out and sanitize the interior and replace every bit of medical equipment in the hospital, would any insurance company cover a rehabbed building that was ten feet under water and likely to flood again in the future.
Exactly.
WHAR BYLINE?
Must be a Dok story.
It is. Fixed!
Cool. You're no longer like a musician playing a gig for exposure bucks.
In 2020 - I had just broke my back in September - then in the last week of October I volunteered for CPR 3 separate times - I don’t know what I told EMS - probably something like - “Bring me back, I haven’t voted yet.” - anyway - I didn’t trust DeJoy not to ratfuck the mail-in voting - so I took my two canes and went to the polling station - Arizona wasn’t done with the voter suppression thing - they had two guys in full-riot gear stationed at each polling station - that’s not going to intimidate anyone is it - so come on Tennessee you can drag your wet-asses to polls - and vote for Kamala and Tim -
I have noticed - that having a severe injury and 3 NDE’s has definitely mellowed my personality - or have none of you fuckers noticed - I actually do wonder what my noncomments were like in the 2020 election cycle - full of gentle charm and wit - I suppose -