LinvilleGorge

Now? All of them.

There was a massive convoy coming up I-40 yesterday and they have Chinooks flying in to drop off essentials to areas that are completely cut off. We're fortunate that even though things are a wreck here locally, I'm five minutes off of I-40 and can easily get out and to areas where things are basically normal. I haven't even ventured into Morganton proper. I just hit 40 and go to Hickory. What blows my mind is that Icard at exit 116 is the first place heading east where all the restaurants are open ("all" being both of the two of them) and the gas station up and running and traffic will be lined up on the interstate people trying to get off. Folks, drive 7-8 more miles and then get a mile off of 40 and life is basically normal.

It took a bear breaking into our house for my wife to realize "okay, I need to learn how to actually operate these guns". I'd tried and tried to teach her and she just had no interest and I'd always told her that even though you have no interest you might find that one day you have a need. A bear in the house with her home alone and between her and all exits woke her up on that one pretty quick.

One thing this has shown me is just how crazy things can get so quickly. I'm not talking about the flooding and trees down and that stuff. I'm talking about people. A lot of folks just fall apart pretty damn quickly. People were pulling guns on each other hours into a power outage over access to gas pumps. Stores were getting robbed because everything was cash only so they were cash rich easy targets. If these new tropical storms forming end up tracking through this area poo is going to go from bad to apocalyptic. Speaking of cash, this has also shown me that if you have the ability, you should definitely keep a supply of cash available. I'm not talking "cash" in the bank. I'm talking in your home available to you. We've always kept about $1000 on hand. The folks who didn't have cash couldn't buy anything. Still can't at most stores.

That sucks. Hang in there. Even though Morganton is a wreck I'm fortunate that we're basically at the very beginning of the disaster zone. I can go 20 miles east to Hickory and things are pretty close to normal. We really did just barely take the big punch. I live off of exit 105 on I-40. East of exit 110 there's hardly any trees down along 40. They probably had to cut close to 20 out of the highway between 107 and 106 alone.

The excuses a lot of folks made for them after the first game about how they just struggled because the offense out them in such bad positions constantly... well, what now? They suck. No sugarcoating it.

Josh Allen just got murdered.

Well, damn. That was special.

Yeah, this is just not competitive. Baltimore is owning the LOS on both sides of the ball.

Baltimore is just completely dominating this game. They came in desperate at 1-2 and it shows.

That's where I'm at. You gotta think they'll probably get it rolling sooner or later so it's pretty discouraging they're still winning while pretty much floundering around by their recent standards.

Not sure if the rest of the league should be hopeful that KC isn't playing very well right now or absolutely discouraged because they're probably about to be 4-0 despite not playing well.

The helicopter traffic today is insane. We've had a year's worth of helicopter traffic today alone. I guess they're surveying damage. They're flying loooooow and slow. Rare to go outside and not hear at least one. Most aren't showing up on Flight Radar. The ones that do are medical.

I think we want him to be a very good DC in just not seeing a lot of evidence for it. I don't think he's bad I just think he's basically pretty run of the mill. Given great talent I'm sure he could look great. Run of the mill with great talent to work with will look great. I think don't think Evero is going to drag down a defense but I also don't think he's going to lift up a defense over it's base talent level either.

Oh well. We competed and it was a helluva lot more fun to watch than Bryce Young futility. Dalton is showing that the offense is ready for a long term option to be installed. The D needs a lot of work.

He can get cut along with Franks for that drop on the fake punt. Be gone.

Where's all that hollering about picked up flags now? LOL We aren't losing because of the refs. We're losing because our D has been atrocious.

Burrow just channeled his inner Jets/Panthers Sam Darnold. LOL

Well, we're about to be fresh out of LBs. Not that we'd notice the difference. LOL

We just let a QB run around like a chicken with his head cut off for like ten seconds. LOL

Damn. Burrow just made us look like a buncha damn clowns. LOL

The defense is futile but the offense is making it worth watching

Oof. Frank's can honestly get cut for that.

Evero is just okay. Not great, not awful. Basically a JAG DC. Our pass rush sucks and so does our tackling today. I honestly don't think there's much he can do schematically to fix either.

I was done watching Bryce. I can only deal with so much utter futility before I throw in the towel. At least we're competing. Yeah, we're probably gonna lose. Might even get blown out. But we competed for awhile and guys were playing hard. I can watch that