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An elderly neighbor had similar feelings about his dog who was around 14. The neighbor went so far as to dig a grave for the dog. The dog lived five or six months more and then when all thought the dog was good for another summer, wandered off and was never seen again. It happens. We never saw ...

Build a third parallel road with three lanes, that won't mess up traffic as you build it. Then shift all the traffic over and add a third lane to the farther side. When it's done, move the traffic over and repair the middle two lanes so when traffic is standstill, you have an alternative. And w...

Mission Hospital, the regional trauma center, is continuing to be a hospital, and they have running water by bringing in tanker trucks. They are even getting ready for what they call the second wave: bacterial illnesses tied to the un-sterile conditions people are surviving with. [link=(https:...

Several decades ago Hurricane Camille did horrible things to the Gulf Coast and then mosied inland and did horrible things to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Overnight hellish debris flows happened. Rain gauges were washed away and a 36" inch high steel drum was filled to overflowing. Debri...

This link will take you to pictures of Douglas Lake five days ago. The water you see almost all came from North Carolina. Douglas is spilling as much as it can. This is what Douglas looks like midsummer, full to the almost brim. Winter, Douglas is one of the TVA dams that they draw down to ne...

USGS has updated their landslide count [quote]As of 6:34 p.m. Thursday, the Hurricane Helene Landslide Observations Dashboard listed 127 total landslides, the majority of which occurred in the mountains of North Carolina. This is up from 73 reported landslides on the map as of 9 p.m. Wednesday.[/qu...

Look at the fatalities by county and state lists on this site. Then tell your NC friends to stuff it....

For a dining room and kitchen, it depends on the cabinets. If everything is built in, you're going to have to paint the insides and fronts and remove everything there. As well as have meals ready to pull out of the freezer for as long as the jpb takes. Painting TDL French Doors takes long eno...

carville, doesn't merit a capital c...

Other reports from that day indicated that was the SECOND accident at that location that day and that the highway there had been closed for the Hazmat types to come out and clean up the diesel spill from the previous 18 wheeler accident there. Was something left on the road that caused the b...