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I live in Rocky Mount and was getting ready to go eat at Hing Ta Chinese Restaurant when my power went out and I got the tornado warning on my phone. Good thing I'm old and slow and hadn't left the house yet because that restaurant was severely damaged and customers were injured.
 
Bejesus! When I was working on the tobacco market in West Jefferson the big time politicians were the ones that got folks "High Water" bridges. Wed hire them to get folks to sell at Farmers Burley in West Jefferson instead of Johnson City. All the farmers would say "come go with me" and I'd say that after the market:
"I'll come see you if nothing don't happen and the river don't rise!"
I love those folks and I worry more about the outliars up there than the more affluent areas. I'm sure that they got hammered too. (FYI: The New River up there is so old it flows South to North like the Nile)
 
uncgriff said:
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good
No, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move, ooh
All last night sat on the levee and moaned
All last night sat on the levee and moaned
Thinkin' 'bout my baby and my happy home
Ah-oh
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I was wondering when someone was going to break this out. Good on ya, griff...
 
nashcounty said:
I live in Rocky Mount and was getting ready to go eat at Hing Ta Chinese Restaurant when my power went out and I got the tornado warning on my phone. Good thing I'm old and slow and hadn't left the house yet because that restaurant was severely damaged and customers were injured.
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Glad to hear you weren’t one of them.
 
SmilingJack said:
Bejesus! When I was working on the tobacco market in West Jefferson the big time politicians were the ones that got folks "High Water" bridges. Wed hire them to get folks to sell at Farmers Burley in West Jefferson instead of Johnson City. All the farmers would say "come go with me" and I'd say that after the market:
"I'll come see you if nothing don't happen and the river don't rise!"
I love those folks and I worry more about the outliars up there than the more affluent areas. I'm sure that they got hammered too. (FYI: The New River up there is so old it flows South to North like the Nile)
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I hope you don’t believe that myth about the New River.

Remember, the Alps are relatively young mountains and the Rhine River flows south to north.
 
Zoo_View said:
I hope you don’t believe that myth about the New River.

Remember, the Alps are relatively young mountains and the Rhine River flows south to north.
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Zoo I'm tolerant but not ignorant you always seem stupid and full of shit but I'm about to add you to the super ignore thread. Don't you own a fucking compass?
 
SmilingJack said:

New River | NCpedia

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Zoo I'm tolerant but not ignorant you always seem stupid and full of shit but I'm about to add you to the super ignore thread. Don't you own a fucking compass?
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I don't think he was challenging the claim about its age or the one about its direction, but rather the suggestion that they are linked. Flow direction, of course, depends on whether it's on the north side of a peak or the south side.

Now maybe it's not a coincidence. But to know that, you'd have to know a lot about geologic history. You'd have to know about the movement of the plates and when and how they would have made mountains. IOW, not something a tobacco farmer would know. I don't know it, that's for sure.
 
superrific said:
I don't think he was challenging the claim about its age or the one about its direction, but rather the suggestion that they are linked. Flow direction, of course, depends on whether it's on the north side of a peak or the south side.

Now maybe it's not a coincidence. But to know that, you'd have to know a lot about geologic history. You'd have to know about the movement of the plates and when and how they would have made mountains. IOW, not something a tobacco farmer would know. I don't know it, that's for sure.
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I was talking about high water bridges more than the geography. Poor people are always secondary to the Asheville and Boones when it comes media coverage and tobacco farmers know more about their mountains than geography majors like Michael Jordan.
 
SmilingJack said:
I was talking about high water bridges more than the geography. Poor people are always secondary to the Asheville and Boones when it comes media coverage and tobacco farmers know more about their mountains than geography majors like Michael Jordan.
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You seem really ornery right now. I suppose a mega storm can do that. I don't think Zoo's comment was nearly how you're taking it. I suppose the "please don't tell me you believe that old myth" was a bit harsh, but he's not wrong, is he?

I don't know what you mean by "high water bridges." What does that have to do with a river's age or its flow direction? That's a genuine question. As we have already established, I'm not a man who knows much about mountains.
 
superrific said:
You seem really ornery right now. I suppose a mega storm can do that. I don't think Zoo's comment was nearly how you're taking it. I suppose the "please don't tell me you believe that old myth" was a bit harsh, but he's not wrong, is he?

I don't know what you mean by "high water bridges." What does that have to do with a river's age or its flow direction? That's a genuine question. As we have already established, I'm not a man who knows much about mountains.
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Okay you've already admitted you're mountain ignorant and prefer the Rockies so no worries there and I appreciate your referee stance but I guess I need to know what the "you don't believe that old myth" is about? Does the New River not flow north to the Ohio? What other rivers in the US flow south to North? You said you were having a weird contrarian day and challenged the 50 mile flood thing from a dam busting. High water bridge is something more than the railroad ties that many were built from because they were cheap and ephemeral. NCDOT takes care of Wake county Ashe county not so much. It's always about haves and have nots. That said if the New River doesn't flow north to the Ohio like Rosanna Rosanna Dana "Nevermind"!
 
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