It's a buggy place here, but the mosquitoes and flys were murder today. Swarms and swarms of very determined and aggressive mosquitoes. I feel like a pin cushion now.
Anyone heard from @deltaV
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Need a blood transfusion?
Yep, it's a real problem.Need a blood transfusion?
Even in Africa, millions of mosquitoes needlessly contract AIDS every day and die.
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Welcome back to the land of the juice - boy, that's about the best feeling in the world, when the lights
come back on after a long outage....
I readily admit to being addicted to electricity and the internet. Guilty!
We're not in the ravaged parts of the state, mind, but we got ridiculous amounts of rain and wind as
well, leading to a lot of trees on the property that look like the ones in your pics...
The offensive ones that were too big for my 18" Stihl, I either pushed or dragged back into the tree line with
the tractor (about a half mile of road involved, since I tend the county road as well)....
but after a couple trips down to the really impacted parts to haul supplies, I feel we're extremely lucky
in comparison.
The outpouring of American helping American has been awesome, inspiring - but man, there's just so much
of it, the devastation....it's going to take years for anything to seem "normal" again for a lot of folks.
come back on after a long outage....
I readily admit to being addicted to electricity and the internet. Guilty!
We're not in the ravaged parts of the state, mind, but we got ridiculous amounts of rain and wind as
well, leading to a lot of trees on the property that look like the ones in your pics...
The offensive ones that were too big for my 18" Stihl, I either pushed or dragged back into the tree line with
the tractor (about a half mile of road involved, since I tend the county road as well)....
but after a couple trips down to the really impacted parts to haul supplies, I feel we're extremely lucky
in comparison.
The outpouring of American helping American has been awesome, inspiring - but man, there's just so much
of it, the devastation....it's going to take years for anything to seem "normal" again for a lot of folks.
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Glad to hear you are safe. Just tree damage that's GREAT! I do tree work and you really need to know what to do with those widow makers every once in awhile things don't go exactly as planned. Across the street from a large estate I manage they had a tree guy there who was rushing on a Friday and didn't clear the area. He ended up killing his worker who was chipping brush 180 degrees from where he thought the 80 foot tree was going. Hit him square in the head broke his neck and crushed him. I am friends with the home owner as I have done some work for him since that and many years later he still couldn't believe it when it happened. I heard all the yelling and screaming afterwards from the owner who did it..
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**** I've been moving non stop for days on end and maybe slept 4 hours a day and missed this. Glad you're ok.
Road trip. Heading north towards Asheville. Leaving Southern Cross Ranch in Georgia and heading for 81 and the Northeast. Still need to avoid Asheville? Driving the Hellcat. No mud.
I would avoid Asheville; and especially near the river in that area.
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Was Asheville a part of the flood?
Hello. Practically wiped.
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I saw some of the bad places on the news but don't remember the names of the towns....
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Good to hear all is good Wayne !
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