LinvilleGorge

I just got a text from a buddy that they need help in Old Fort. I have a load of car seats to bring back to the Hickory airport and then I'm headed to Old Fort.

There's only so much I can load into a 4runner so I drove down to Hickory to load helicopters. I figure that's just a more efficient use of what I can do.

One thing that needs to be said here is that virtually all of this aid I'm seeing pour in isn't coming from the government. It's just coming from people. Roads are getting cleared by people like me with a chainsaw and a pickup. All this heavy equipment coming in is private industry stepping up. The vast majority of the helicopters constantly flying overhead delivering aid are private. I don't ever want to see another politician gripping and grinning anywhere around here.

Google has been pretty good about removing the major highways that are out from the options. Get off the major highways though and it's a total crapshoot.

Carolina football might not be delivering wins but they're delivering aid to my people Not a race fan, but I saw a lot of race teams trailer rolling through today bring aid too

It's just the whole acting like a Cowboy fan thing. Chirp real loud all off-season, chirp real loud on the off chance things are actually looking good for a couple weeks, then act like you don't actually care when it all inevitably goes to poo.

Remember when Colorado got their ass whooped by Matt Rhule? You acted like you were a UNC fan all along and how oh well, Colorado sucks again so I'm not interested anymore. But let them win a few games against bad teams (like UNC did) and oh yeah, you chirpin' again. LOL

Guess what , UNC isn't anything special in football. Yeah, Howell and Maye are the best QBs we've ever had. And those guys won a helluva lot more games than your Deion clown troop. Of all people, your bandwagon jumping ass can't be talking about any other college football fans making anything look bad.

I remember him at VT. Good player. Big corner.

The amount of help coming is just unbelievable. I drove up to the Linville area to help a friend cut some trees off of his workshop/utility shed thing and coming back down the mountain it was just convoys of dump trucks after backhoes after the biggest damn bulldozers I've ever seen after water tanker trucks after pickups towing cargo trailers after race teams with their trailers packed full of aid. Just amazing to see. Hard not to choke up seeing it. We swung by to check on a job we just finished up on a house addition and unfortunately found out that the roofer on the job was crushed and killed by a tree that fell through his house. He seemed like a really good guy. The death numbers are going to go up a lot and I think a lot of people will probably remain forever missing.

Yeah, it's a gigantic money laundering scheme.

I mean this dude is just blatantly grabbing receivers. It's not ticky tack stuff. It's stuff that would've been called 20 years ago.

Super mega ass defense

Well, that'll do it

Lions' 1st round CB has 8 penalties through the first four games. 5 DPIs. DAMN

Well, I was hoping Seattle would score there just to keep it interesting.

I'm pleased with what I've seen from Legette so far and I didn't want to pick him. He looks like he belongs on an NFL field. That's basically all I'm looking for at this point in their rookie seasons.

Can't be. I was told by many that Bryce was carrying inferior talent at ALA-FUGING-BAMA. Anyone who ever believed that line of bullshit needs to have their damn head examined.

Yeah, feels like a classic Pac-12 game. Basically no D to be seen.

Man, the Seahawks are just getting GASHED. Goff hasn't thrown an incomplete pass yet. LOL

I had a good buddy ride out Irma on Key West. That was idiotic and they got very fortunate.

War profiteering always takes precedent over everything else. That's the one thing DC can always agree on.

People take pride in rebuilding after disasters. Even in obvious flood zones. They rebuild on the coast after every hurricane. They rebuild on the Rockies after every wildfire. They rebuild along the fault lines after every earthquake. People shouldn't be building in flood plains but they do and they will.

Asheville got hit HARD but at least they'll get plenty of aid. 90% of aid efforts will probably focus on Asheville because it's the largest population center a well as being where the money and power in WNC are centered. I feel for the small isolated mountain communities. They're fuged. Nobody is gonna care. They never did.