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I just wanted to bring this back up to clarify that this was in no way meant as a slight toward Samaritan's Purse. They were doing good work and seemed like really good people. My selfish frustration about not finding a volunteer opportunity today that I felt was a worthy investment of the time and effort due to the massive influx of volunteers is whatever. They just had so many volunteers that they had to send them somewhere to do something so rich folks' vacation homes it was. On the positive side, it's amazing seeing the outpouring of support for an area that is often pretty much overlooked and forgotten about.

Got home and put in some saw time. I hacked my way into the widowmaker at least.

I didn't take pics on Old Fort yesterday out of respect but a lot of homes were just gone. Others washed a hundred yards or more downstream. All badly flooded. There were probably 5-6 vehicles piled up against the bridge. They were so mangled and partially buried that it was hard to tell exactly how many there were. Old Fort is the worst that I've personally seen so far.

I believe it. They've been mad as hell.

One of the specific things they were mentioning was Benadryl and epi pens. It makes sense. The yellow jackets were PISSED. I thought it was just around my house at first but then everywhere I went there were pissed off yellow jackets everywhere. They've settled down around my house so not sure it's still a big need or not but it was.

I'll send you a PM

He definitely puts off that vibe. Not sure if that's the reality or not.

Thanks. Have y'all been up that way? If there's a need for volunteers up that way that's where I'd prefer to head tomorrow. I was just working under the assumption that 19E was probably still closed.

Poor man's Cordarrelle Patterson

Anyone low enough to take a shot like this in this situation at someone trying to do all he can to help his local people just isn't needed here anymore.

How far is 19E open? When I was in Spruce Pine last Friday it was shut down at Spruce Pine.

Yeah, I mean don't get me wrong. I feel for those people, I'm not heartless. But at the same time you people have means. You're not in need. If you were trapped in there by deadfall I'm here for you. But coming in from Charlotte to check in on your vacation property? I mean... sorry man, best of luck to you. But I'm here to help people on legit need or I need to go focus on my own stuff.

Bingo

What are they needing? I could go tomorrow

Dropped off a load of goods in Newland. Linked up with Samaritan's Purse and they needed help in a neighborhood that I knew. It's all rich people's vacation homes. I'm like nah, if you have somewhere to go focusing on people's primary residences that they're blocked on or uninhabitable that's what I'm here to do. If the focus is vacation homes I have plenty of poo to do at my own house. They completely understood so I rolled out. I'm going to check in on Black Mountain and Swannanoa tomorrow but honestly it seems like everywhere that's accessible by vehicle has an overabundance of volunteers. If somebody wants to helicopter my ass in with tools to inaccessible places I'll eat a bunch of Dramamine and go but other than that looks like I'm about to shift gears and focus on my own stuff.

I'm headed back to Linville. Gonna try to find an aid station along the way to bring as much as I can but oddly every church I've driven by is doing nothing for their community. A lot of folks still stuck in their houses with no way out and a lot of flooded homes at least needing the saturated sheetrock ripped out. I have my dad coming with his contractor's van with a lot more tools.

You should probably be banned for this. This is shameful. Abysmal. Borderline blasphemous.

That INT he threw late in the 4th was Bryce-esque and then a 4th string WR morphed into prime Smitty. Let's not oversell how great Kirk Cousins is. LOL

That was reminiscent of X Clown. Bucs blow it. LOL

Koo hit it anyway. Sweet! Overtime. This has been a good game.

The Falcons got a delay of game after a spike. LOLOLOL

The Bucs are trying to prevent D the Falcons into FG range.

Oh look, Kirk Cousins blows it in the clutch on primetime again

Thursday night games almost always suck. This game definitely does not suck.

Damn, Baker. That was nice.