I'm Back
Greetings readers! Much has happened since my last blog on September 23rd. First, Hurricane Helene struck Florida, then traveled northward, continuing through Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and western North Carolina . The precursor rains in the Carolinas and Tennessee precipitated havoc when Helene arrived by the “brown-ocean effect.” We were fortunate to live just east of Boone, NC, where the major storm had reached. We had over 11.62 inches of rain in 24 hours, but here at our home’s mountaintop location, there was no flooding. Our community egress road exits onto a small country road that travels along a “run” (Appalachian word for creek) before it reaches Rt 421. The run flooded that road and its bridge. Thanks to our community leaders’ foresight, we have a secondary emergency exit directly onto Rt 421, so we were not trapped. Winds brought down many trees, and then trees continued to fall due to oversaturated ground and pine’s shallow roots. A small landslide disl...