How?

Gonna leave the Government out of this little thought-line,,, I wanna talk about prepping, and current events.

I was thinking,, if the Cumberland river were to break the 25′ mark here local, it would cover most of the access roads between Harlan and Barbourville KY,,, MOST ALL OF THEM.    We see 21 and 22′ most every February, and last week, it crested at 19′, which keeps it pretty tightly within it’s banks, with the occasional washout of lower roads along side it.  

If it were to see the sorts of rains that hit TN/NC/GA last week, in such a short time frame, the main roads, like 25E and 119 would be largely impassible,  Short stretchs exposed to the air, but larger parts.   And that doesn’t account the bridges.    I know a guy who could tell me more about that, and I am sure there are some smaller spans that wouldn’t hold, but there would still be sections taken down for the sheer fact “DEBRIS” being pushed by TONS of water at speed, are battering rams.  One too many oaks being propelled downstream could take out one support and the whole thing would cave like wet tissue.

How do you prepare for that sort of thing ?    I don’t want you to think long term, like ‘move to higher ground’ or such, I am thinking more, “weather man says this is that 1000 years storm, we’d better move the preps in the basement somewhere safe”. 

I ask this because I saw a vid of a debris wash coming down the side of a hill so damned fast, it covered 100yards in the space of 2 seconds,,,   The area was not in a creek bed or even along side it; it was a hillside coming down,   You can’t second guess that sort of thing, nor can you really predict it.   And if you can’t make that sort of prediction, HOW can you plan for it.    How can you prepare for it?    Keeping multiple locations of supplies?    The people that live in those areas are still suffering from Great Depression era issues.   In some cases (Hartford TN) the area RELIES on tourest activity to stay alive,,, No rafting companies, no jobs,   

And I haven’t been there to see, but have heard that this flood pretty much washed the Pigeon, FLAT,,, Not so much class3+ anymore.    Some of the highlight rapids are completely GONE!!!   

Think of it like this,,, (I don’t recall the name of the rapid, but it was a boil around a REALLY BIG FUCKIN’ ROCK,,,   Think mobile home size rock,,,,

GONE  

It’s now downstream somewhere or washed to the bank and no longer disrupting water to make rapids.

If that river is flat, the rafting companies aren’t going to draw like they did, and that means things close shop and Hartford becomes another Appalachian Ghost town  (like it does every winter,,,,)

Then there are stories of entire Neighborhoods gone missing,,, where they stood is now a ravine,,,

In an area that is KNOWN POOR,,, HOW do they rebuild?  CAN they rebuild,,,,

Don’t write them off,,, These are Scots/Irish,,,  Stubborn, tight knit even if they are bloodthirsty and ruthless,  

and if some of the stories I am hearing have even a 10% margin of accuracy,,, THESE PEOPLE ARE GETTING VERY PISSED OFF.

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that some FEMA admin-types were found tied to a railroad crosstie and found floating facedown in the FrenchBroad near Morristown TN.

And I think that would be the milder application of “hill justice” (a very real thing, Don’t doubt it.)

I’m not going to go on an on about it,,, Shit gets me too pissed off at an already F!d up situation.    

(ok, so I lied, heres the government rant side)   Here it is, one month (minus) to November (s)elections,,, and the OPTICS are pure shit for the incumbants,,, Even the dedicated press is having a hard time covering and providing cover for it, and the ones that I have seen are spreading flat lies, or “oh, Look! Squirell!!” distractions.  

That tells me that either they are cocksure of themselves (as I mentioned in another post) or THERE WILL BE NO NOVEMBER (S)ELECTON CYCLE,,,,    Something is in the works, I can feel it

And I am not alone,,,, LOTS of people are starting to say things, ask things, and the answers given are NOT good,,, (8 billion to the KrainianKlownKar, along with our stock of Transformers and such, as well as breaking FEMA’s budget on “Refugees” from other countries.  ) We take care of the world, but can’t take care of our own?   Not good optics by any perspective.

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is my goal this weekend,,, No posts,,, unless something truly stupendous demands it.

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