A year ago this morning I started five hours of chainsawing my way out to the highway and two weeks without power. Even a year on the full effects of the hurricane are still visible. Parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway will need another year of repairs; I-40 is kind of open for limited traffic with major delays.
It was quite an experience. The main thing I learned was to look to your community and not to the Feds for help in such times. Help each other and stick together, and have faith in the people but not the government. An amazing amount of charity effort came flowing in through roads that were barely open, or flown into tony airfields some of which didn’t formally exist.
Hopefully the two storms forming off the coast blow back to sea. We don’t need them.
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