Random Thought Thread

Pàdruig said:
This is an event all its own. I'm sad I'm missing it.
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Same, I thought I might be able to go this year but with the family situation it obviously won’t work out. Fingers crossed for 2025.

We had some decent colors in Mass last night as well. This was actually visible with the naked eye as a purple aura although the camera definitely intensified it. I wish I didn’t have a streetlight right down from me, that was the better northern angle.

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I just checked the Duke power outage map and it's down to just 30,000 people in Asheville without power. This area had been over 100,000 a week ago so they're putting a pretty good dent in it. That's encouraging.

It did get kind of cold there last night.
 
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The problem now is the infrastructure that has been built up over a hundred years has been gutted

The same glacial forces that made flat areas that were suitable for farming and roads and houses usually come with a river nearby. A lot of those rivers have moved with some people waking up the day after the hurricane owning less land, and some owning more.

A lot of the roads are washed out. These are roads that can't just be replaced, they're going to have to blast into the side of the mountain and put a road beside it because the river has moved. Building a road like that can be a pretty slow project and there are a lot of sections like this. Hell, the damn interstate is like this.

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^ That's I 40!

It's going to take a long time to fix all of these sections of road. They're saying that interstate's going to be down for a freaking year.

It's going to be a long time before things get remotely back to normal for a lot of folks there.


A silver lining. At least for me. Is my hopes of maybe getting a place in the mountains became more realistic because I have to imagine there's going to be some people moving out because of this.
 
Just sold two Basic 5's, to my oldest and her friend. $0.05/ea. Weird family tradition that I first heard from my great grandmother: never gift a knife to anyone you like; it will cut your friendship. No prohibition against commerce though.

No current natural disasters in the neighborhood here. Thoughts and prayers may not be much, but y'all who were in the storm path have them from, I imagine, most of us whom it passed by this time.
 
fnordmorph said:
Just sold two Basic 5's, to my oldest and her friend. $0.05/ea. Weird family tradition that I first heard from my great grandmother: never gift a knife to anyone you like; it will cut your friendship. No prohibition against commerce though.

No current natural disasters in the neighborhood here. Thoughts and prayers may not be much, but y'all who were in the storm path have them from, I imagine, most of us whom it passed by this time.
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Yes I heard the same from my grandmother. She’d give me a pocketknife and a penny and have me give the penny back to her.
 
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