Helene Recovery & Info

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From a friend and a mother of a Warren Wilson student: "Warren Wilson, my kid's tiny college, is an unusual place. It's the queerest place I've ever been (75% by Eli's estimate). It's a music school that emphasizes the offbeat (Eli has taken West African drumming and Klezmer). It's faculty are great teachers. Eli has loved them all, which is pretty darn unusual. It's a farm school, which raises animals for meat (although a big chunk of the students are vegan). And it's a work school, which means the students all work on campus doing everything from landscaping to admissions. It's also in Swannanoa, the epicenter of Hurricane Helene destruction. Because the students work on campus doing more than just answering phones and leading tours, they had skills they could bring to bear to help recover at least partially from the storm. The forestry crew was especially busy cutting the trees that had come down and a student stepped in to supervise the making of meals for 700. The college has been collecting their stories. The terrifying tale below is from the head of the pig crew. There's a link to donate to the recovery fund as well. Small colleges are always on the brink of financial disaster. I worry that this storm could do this amazing place in."

www.warren-wilson.edu

Sof Smith, Farm Crew - Warren Wilson College

www.warren-wilson.edu www.warren-wilson.edu

"As floodwaters rose during Hurricane Helene, student Sof Smith — the “Pig Boss” on Warren Wilson College’s Farm Crew — checked to ensure that the pigs were safe in the higher paddocks where she and other students had moved them before the storm. As she fed pigs, the lower fields were already underwater. A few minutes later, she noticed with alarm that the floodwaters had already risen halfway across the middle fields, where they had moved several six-week-old piglets and their mothers the day before to keep them safe. Sof knew then that the fields behind, where they had several more pigs, were certainly in worse shape.

“We had no idea it was going to get that bad,” Sof said. She had to make a quick decision — if she didn’t move the pigs, they would drown. These pigs had never been integrated together before and would likely fight. But at least they’d be alive. She and two other students got the piglets and their mothers into their houses.

Cont. at the link."
 
Paine said:
Not a fan of religion generally, but Sikhs tend to be the kindest people whenever I’ve interacted with them. That’s what religion should be about.
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Which is a bit ironic since Sikhism is the only religion I know of where the adherents have a religious duty to carry a sword or dagger with them. Also, all men have to be named Singh, which comes from a Rajput warrior caste. But in terms of a) religion or b) today's fucked up world, it's only a minor irony.

I would say that Sikhism as a religion benefits from a) not being welded into an ideology of colonial domination; and b) the lack of big $$ and grift that has plagued contemporary Christianity (not to say that there hasn't been big $$ influencing the religion for a lot longer; I'm just talking about today).
 
As a young dumbass I went swimming in the pond at Warren Wilson with my glasses on. Yep. Luckily had a gf with me to drive back to CH.
 
nycfan said:


Near Weaverville he says
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God this makes me so sad. I grew up not too far from the Parkway and traveling on the parkway on weekends and having picnic lunches and going on church trips on the parkway was a fun part of my childhood through my high school years. It's likely going to take years for the parkway to be repaired and fully reopened, and an even longer amount of time for the woods and land to recover. I remember seeing scenes of the mountains and forests of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hammered them in 2017, and it honestly never occurred to me that someday the NC mountains would look the same. Just awful.
 
mpaer said:
From American weather forum
Damage views-to music
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Why are there AR-15's in every other scene? This might sound insensitive but this looks like cosplay. Were they going to shoot away the floodwaters? Maybe shoot some fallen trees? Shoot some lead into the broken electrical and water systems? Somebody please tell me about the hurricane-crazed bears which no longer are repelled by sticks and loud noises.
 
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