Mudslide late OT Welcome to Saturday
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
Good morning good people!
Torrential rains on Grandfather Mountain trapped me and many others living in the Wilson Creek Wilderness yesterday. I'd spent the week in a friend's home caring for two big, beautiful dogs, but before my friends made it back from vacation mudslides began taking out area roads mostly dirt and gravel ones, but also paved highways as well.
My friends had to park their car at a neighbor's and hike in the dark through knee deep, steep mudslides to arrive at the cabin last evening.
Trapped on both ends, the dirt road, main one for the scattered wildness community trapped us in from both sides, up and down the mountain.
After an early morning of scouting and connecting with neighbors by hiking, a good mountain man, a native, came with a four-wheeler and took me up a rugged path to where a roadway was passable; one of the homeowners hiked up to get his car and meet up with us and then drove me home; phew!
But, my car is stuck there...
So, i've not much for today except an exciting story. More than ten inches of rain, practically at once.
Anyways, been away for this week and some catching up to do on c99, so, please let me know if i've missed any important people info and please carry on as usual now the OT is up...
the porch is yours!
Comments
The power of Mother Nature delays OT
Good morning, smiley7, glad that you made it back, but
sorry about your car. I was just getting ready to throw up an OT with nothing but the header graphic and a topic like "planaria, good or bad?", or something. There's some good content up already, so read a bit and relax.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks, el, still a little shaky, trying to calm down...
beginning Monday, a full week beacons, including travel, much of my responsibilities planned for some time (the window for several things to come together) and now that's my overriding concern as the roadway damage in the entire area is significant and retrieving my car my become a problem.
Life and its cure-balls, eh?
Thanks for being here.
Yeah, the car sounds like problemo uno, since there's
nothing you can do about the road network unless u=you keep a road grader in the back yard.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
some very large culverts and tons of gravel, as well...
damn, next week is critical to making some things work and i suppose i'm left with the adage of 'best made plans.'
Cheers for understanding. On a side note, the area gardens will need new beginnings.
And belatedly, from last Sunday, the fishing outing was just as imagined, the new green splendor, magic color of the apps. available no where else on top of the mountain was timed perfectly, a joy of Nature's brought annually.
Least surprising award
As they go low, let's go higher and not miss opportunities
to drown such voices of madness in clarity.
So, he's going to
mow his own lawn,
clean his own toilet?
right.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Jimmy D. dropped a good one this morning.
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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Friedman--sad he's a pulpit from which to spew
"The Biggest Terriorist Organization in the World
The United States."
Good rant from Jimmy.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Holy #@%&! Look at Eric go!
posted on ToP no less.
Sorry, kos, I don't know what I was thinking (Link to ToP)
[edit] While I did click to read the story, I found this posted on FB (facebook).
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Good on anyone trying to communicate, but reading Top calls for
self medication.
Agree.
Almost never go
there, but after reading his FB post I had to take a peek.
Brave soul that Eric Stamps.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Indeed, didn't mean to
diminish his work in any way, but they, the 'topsters,' are mostly set in neo-liberal-stones as rigid as birthers, best we focus on rallying new folks to the cause--call the cause what you will, you know, the one that puts good will toward men and so on in practice and politics.
Still a member there, mind you, a few good old online friends producing good work, mostly environmental and recipes, but to engage in an argument on top seems pointless to me, imho.
More power to the energetic and having a go is no problem as i could be wrong.
durnit all, you made me go there
And it quit going there for fear of permanent brain damage from the Clinton cult. IMO, it was a good diary, but posting it at Clinton central is going to fall on deaf ears for the most part. The only thing that surprised me is that the writer was not flagged.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Wow!
That is quite a story. Glad to hear you were finally able to get out of there, car or no car.
Many of the roads around Brevard are also washed out or impassible, most of them are in the French Broad River flood plain. Luckily here in town everything is fine although the water line in the road in front of my house had a leak and the city crews spent 16 hours Thursday trying to locate and repair it. They worked on it until after midnight Friday morning. I felt sorry for them having to do it in the rain and for so long. Made me really appreciate the hard working local employees here.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Hi, gg! Good to see you. Yeah, what a rain; as if the Gulf and
Atlantic joined up in bringing, concentrating, its evaporation on these old mountains. I was here for the killing flood of 73, the worst one happened in 1940. Roaring isn't big enough a word to describe these mountain creeks when the soil is saturated and the rain continues to fall.
One house near the friend's had a gigantic boulder crush the side of it; luckily, no one inside was harmed. Still concerned for those in the lower communities, Mortimer, Globe and so on...no word yet.
Fanning out, hiking and by four-wheelers, the wilderness community is communicating, "waiting for the governor to declare a disaster declaration," one local said.
Back home in our college town, just a few miles away, things are fine; only 4 inches of rain fell here, not the ten plus Grandfather endured. Trouble is, it's still raining and more in the forecast.
Been watching the topo of this grand mountain for years, so large and placed to have its own climate, gathering all the storms in, no matter the direction from which they come.
Gives one pause.
Thanks for being here and take good care.
Who knew? Apparently Shell
Oil knew a whole lot more about Global Warming /Climate Change than they were letting on...
Yes, we knew about it. So what?!
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
And which country benefits from rising oil prices...
funny that a ten dollar a gallon increase in oil futures costs a driver more than fifty p per gallon in places--pipeline routes and Texas tea ruling from DC?
Paralysis by argument
Really good DKos diary, but many of the usual, pointless arguments in the comments:
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Beware the bullshit factories.
Yeah
" Is that flaggable"?
" No, I didn't see anything flaggable".
" I didn't see anything flaggable either".
" The author came close to being flagged".
" Damn, and I had a flag waiting right here too".
" Well the author is still responding to comments, maybe something flaggable will come up".
" Oh I hope so, I do love to flag".
(Stops reading).
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Hi smiley
Living in the mountains requires a special kind of ruggedness, especially now with more severe weather globally. I’m happy you are home safely. Can you borrow or rent a car for your travels this week?
https://youtu.be/LLWD2WIvRQk
Hi janis
Friends have offered already this afternoon to do whatever; thanks for asking; don't want to be an inconvenience, we'll see, it all works out doesn't it, in time, usually anyways.
Quite the ride on the four-wheeler, straight up as a vehicle can go ducking low tree limbs, bushes, plowing up ruts and when we hit a bog almost over the handle bars we went; didn't phase the good man, a mountain character, true inside and out, my senior and strong as an 'Ent.'
Reports from friends since i posted midday are okay thus far, just lots of downed trees and road damage.
Easing down with el's serenade, now, perfect music; settles the soul.
Been a long time since JD played continuously in our ears; thanks for the high and being here.
Sounds hopeful smiley.
However it evolves I wish you well.
Glad you are safe
Thanks to you and all those who comment.
Friday's first harvest. Made BlackBerry cobbler, creamed peas and new potatoes, boiled the squash with onion. Yum.
Wishing all a great Sunday!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
A dish from memory, dad's Mom first introduced me to
squash and onions, yummy. Happy to see the bounty; vicariously celebrating. Those new potatoes, this early? Sure, it a hot clime where you are, comparatively, potato salad time!
Thanks, i'm safe and all reports from Wilson Creek as of a few hours ago are that no one has been hurt; just a lot of damage.
Still pumped up from the experience, adrenaline? Anyways, a new story to tell over and over again like we old men do at morning coffee
Or as Shakespeare said, 'All's well that ends well."
Thanks for being here and have a wonderful day.
Yeah ... potato salad
Yep ... Pulled those potatoes out of a round hay bale. This next month is make it or break it for the garden here. Everything looks good now but it needs to stay cool enough to produce.
Thinking of you today. We had a bunch of rain which was great for us, but might not be so wonderful on a mountain!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo