Random Thought Thread

beeinak said:
I am very glad you are back with power.

I was just reading there is no cell service in Asheville and no internet in many areas.

I hope he is hunkered down. Great timing for him to have gotten the generator.
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Yeah, I expect he's getting very good use from that generator right now.

Duke power was showing 1.3 million people without power here yesterday. They're still showing 1.1 million.

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The whole area is blacked out
 
Looking at his actual house, he is in a flood zone X area which is minimal risk, and just looking at the topology it seems very unlikely that he got flooded. He's probably fine and just in a blacked out area without communication. He's probably sitting there, sipping scotch and reveling in his giant-ass generator he just got, enjoying the quiet that comes from living in a forest in the North Carolina mountains with absolutely no road noise at the moment.

I'll let y'all know if I find anything out.

Edit: It does look like his area got about 6.8 inchs of rain yesterday, which is quite a bit. Also looks like his house is built into the side of a hill with no water accumulation potential.

The man lives in an incredibly beautiful area.

Edit: looking at the rainfall record, he was catching about half an inch of rain every 5 minutes for the 15 minutes before 7:00 yesterday morning. That's bananas.

Looks like he caught some 40 mph wind gusts too
 
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Burke said:
I was just driving back from visiting my wife at the hospital and saw at least a dozen big Eversource bucket trucks and a couple of smaller pickups going the other way. Assuming they are heading down to help folks affected by Helene.
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Hopefully DTE in Michigan is headed down as well. I’ve heard they reciprocate with other states.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
People who haven't tried good venison don't know what they're missing out on

It's not a common food. Not because there's something wrong with it, but it's just not efficient to commercialize. But because it is food and because it is different, people are wired to be suspicious of it.

Venison is a red meat like beef. But even more red.

Like any wild game, it can be funky if it has been eating funky things like red acorns. This is called being gamey. But that doesn't make it bad, that funk is just something you can learn to appreciate like anything else.

Like the meat at your grocery store, it varies in character and quality. But all of it is finer-grained than the best beef you ever had. Which makes for better jerky.

If you like beef jerky. You're going to love venison jerky, because it is just objectively better in every way.

It tastes different. Because it is different. But it is better. I will die on this hill.
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I will die on that hill with you.

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Nathan the Machinist said:
A text that I sent him is showing "undelivered" which probably means his cell service is down
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He got the whole house generator (which is good), but yeah, I saw something online about how a lot of cell towers were without power in the area, and they’re planning on bringing generators to the towers to restore some level of comms.
 
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This is Chimney Rock. Or was. That's where Ben and Sue got married. We stayed there a little while. We all really enjoyed it and Harrison in particular really loved it there. Beautiful area. I think Ben got married on that street. (Edit: Just confirmed with Sue, yeah they were married right there, the venue was a little farther down) The layout of the town is funny because it's on the side of a mountain so it's basically just a street there.

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Yeah, so anyways. That's gone now.
 
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The little inn we stayed in was very quaint. Not fake quaint but real old mountain quaint with old unlevel floors and old style doors and windows and stuff and a little deck that you could sit on and look at the river. Old and worn and really lovely. I hate to think that that's gone now, but of course it is, it was built on the side of that river.
 
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Nathan the Machinist said:
The little inn we stayed in was very quaint. Not fake quaint but real old mountain quaint with old unlevel floors and old style doors and windows and stuff and a little deck thought you could sit on and look at the river. Old and worn and really lovely. I hate to think that that's gone now, but of course it is, it was built on the side of that river.
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Sadly life is like that in so many ways 😔

If it is gone I'm glad you guys had a chance to experience it

Sending positive energy to all affected by this
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
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This is Chimney Rock. Or was. That's where Ben and Sue got married. We stayed there a little while. We all really enjoyed it and Harrison in particular really loved it there. Beautiful area. I think Ben got married on that street. (Edit: Just confirmed with Sue, yeah they were married right there, the venue was a little farther down) The layout of the town is funny because it's on the side of a mountain so it's basically just a street there.

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Yeah, so anyways. That's gone now.
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We visited Chimney Rock in June and really enjoyed been there, that's heart breaking. So much can go away so quickly.
I usually stay away from news and don't really know what's going on out there but when it's places I've been or people I know it's just hard. Sending prayers for the people that got hurt or in any way got affected by this side of the Mother Nature.
I hope Blues Blues and his family is doing ok there and it's just a matter of comms being down.
Also Nathan, Mark, Jo and the rest of the CPK family , I hope you guys didn't get affected to much and you're ok.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
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This is Chimney Rock. Or was. That's where Ben and Sue got married. We stayed there a little while. We all really enjoyed it and Harrison in particular really loved it there. Beautiful area. I think Ben got married on that street. (Edit: Just confirmed with Sue, yeah they were married right there, the venue was a little farther down) The layout of the town is funny because it's on the side of a mountain so it's basically just a street there.

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Yeah, so anyways. That's gone now.
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I saw that just a bit ago. I've never been, but hate to see that kind of destruction anywhere. It's really hard to see it happen to a place you've personally stood and have a personal connection to.

My thoughts go out to the folks that lived there or had ties there.
 
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