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well it's coming up on two years very soon about Halim hurricane Halim hard to believe and slowly but surely the area near where I live at for those of you may not familiar Lake Lure chimney rock that area got really hammered as much much of Western North Carolina got hammered but that area really got hammered to the point where it nearly went completely got almost completely

destroyed and the recovery in both chimney rock and Lake Lure has been taking a long time but both are finally getting back to their basically get back to where they were before the hurricane and as we come up on the two-year

anniversary I am reminded that this can happen again as shocking as it is because not too long after I was born in 1971 there was a hurricane that came through and hit the area not quite as bad not nearly as bad as a matter of fact but pretty bad the big difference was it had a lot of its energy already

shorn off because it came across came from the Atlantic Ocean up and went in a straight line essentially a diagonal line from Charleston all the way up to I believe it was Charleston up to this area where normally it would go up north like Hugo did Helene came up through the panhandle of Florida and it took the short way to get here it literally had nearly hurricane-force winds as they of water and just went through and hit like a buzzsaw it was indeed a very scary time to say the least but the thing is I don't think we've really understood that this can't happen again this idea was once in a century or once in this stuff is happening a lot and I don't think we realize just how crazy it's going to be in the coming years when this kind of stuff happens a lot maybe not around here but what happens if a hurricane goes to the Gulf Coast and heads up toward eastern Tennessee and really rampages that area like

Helene did us and they're more likely to get it because they generally get more of the harder stuff than we do on this side usually if we're going to get hit with something it's going to come around the bend around Atlanta around the corner as it heads towards Charlotte and hit us that way so but usually if it's coming west to east the mountains shear off a lot of that energy so we don't really get it all it off that's why we don't get a lot of snow around here unless it comes around as a tropical system coming out of the with a lot of Gulf moisture so but yeah almost two years since Helene and hard to believe that there's still a lot of that damage around still a lot of trees down

deep in the forest and especially since we're still technically in a drought that does make for some danger right there not just for fires but for tornadoes and all that we're not really in a tornado alley per se but they can happen around here so that's it for now bye bye