Carolina Fever
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Looks like we will get a break from the storms and rain this weekend, but it's going to feel like 100 again.
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We're on Winter Dr above Merritt's Pasture just west of Morgan Crk Rd. Know Sourwood well
Kinda close to where James Taylor grew up and would have been on my elementary school bus route.
Those woods were great for childhood adventures.
Not so great for tropical depressions.
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Copper Line was his ode to those days. Saw where 9 of the 10 worst storms in the US have happened since 1995 with records back to 1910. Basically we have an annual 30% chance of disaster. I'm glad climate change is fake now that MAGA rules. They're throwing out 500yr/1,000yr bullshit saying no one's ever seen anything like it!
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He may have a point, at least with his last sentence.
Kamala and Sleepy Joe are universally being given POOR GRADES for the way that they are handling the Hurricane, especially in North Carolina. It is going down as the WORST & MOST INCOMPETENTLY MANAGED “STORM,” AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, EVER SEEN BEFORE - BUT THEIR MANAGEMENT OF THE BORDER IS WORSE! MAGA2024
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Sorry, my lack of understanding how to post a Truth Social link made that confusing. I was pointing out that Trump’s comment that questioning the Texas response was evil was made less than 9 months after he made far worse comments about Helene.
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also posted in the FAFO thread because honestly the mouth breathing right wing shitbags who live here did this.
In 2021, Kerr County was awarded a $10.2 million windfall from the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, which Congress passed that same year to support local governments impacted by the pandemic. Cities and counties were given flexibility to use the money on a variety of expenses, including those related to storm-related infrastructure. Corpus Christi, for example, allocated $15 million of its ARPA funding to “rehabilitate and/or replace aging storm water infrastructure.” Waco’s McLennan County spent $868,000 on low water crossings.
Kerr County did not opt for ARPA to fund flood warning systems despite commissioners discussing such projects nearly two dozen times since 2016. In fact, a survey sent to residents about ARPA spending showed that 42% of the 180 responses wanted to reject the $10 million bonus altogether, largely on political grounds.
“I’m here to ask this court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House,” one resident told commissioners in April 2022, fearing strings were attached to the money.
“We don't want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” another resident told commissioners. “We'd like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”
Even Kelly, the Kerr County judge remarked that this “old law partner” – U.S. Sen. John Cornyn – had told him that if the county did not spend the money it would go back to blue states.
“As far as where that money sits for the next year or two, my old law partner John Cornyn tells me that if we send it back it’s going to New Jersey or it’s going to New York or it’s going to … or California,” Kelly said. “And so I don’t know if I’d rather be the custodian of the money until we decide what we have to do with it rather than giving it back to the government to spend it on values that we in Kerr County don’t agree with.”
When it was all said and done, the county approved $7 million in ARPA dollars on a public safety radio communications system for the sheriff’s department and county fire services to meet the community’s needs for the next 10 years, although earlier estimates put that contract at $5 million. Another $1 million went to sheriff’s employees in the form of stipends and raises, and just over $600,000 went towards additional county positions. A new walking path was also created with the ARPA money.
In 2021, Kerr County was awarded a $10.2 million windfall from the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, which Congress passed that same year to support local governments impacted by the pandemic. Cities and counties were given flexibility to use the money on a variety of expenses, including those related to storm-related infrastructure. Corpus Christi, for example, allocated $15 million of its ARPA funding to “rehabilitate and/or replace aging storm water infrastructure.” Waco’s McLennan County spent $868,000 on low water crossings.
Kerr County did not opt for ARPA to fund flood warning systems despite commissioners discussing such projects nearly two dozen times since 2016. In fact, a survey sent to residents about ARPA spending showed that 42% of the 180 responses wanted to reject the $10 million bonus altogether, largely on political grounds.
“I’m here to ask this court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House,” one resident told commissioners in April 2022, fearing strings were attached to the money.
“We don't want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” another resident told commissioners. “We'd like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”
Even Kelly, the Kerr County judge remarked that this “old law partner” – U.S. Sen. John Cornyn – had told him that if the county did not spend the money it would go back to blue states.
“As far as where that money sits for the next year or two, my old law partner John Cornyn tells me that if we send it back it’s going to New Jersey or it’s going to New York or it’s going to … or California,” Kelly said. “And so I don’t know if I’d rather be the custodian of the money until we decide what we have to do with it rather than giving it back to the government to spend it on values that we in Kerr County don’t agree with.”
When it was all said and done, the county approved $7 million in ARPA dollars on a public safety radio communications system for the sheriff’s department and county fire services to meet the community’s needs for the next 10 years, although earlier estimates put that contract at $5 million. Another $1 million went to sheriff’s employees in the form of stipends and raises, and just over $600,000 went towards additional county positions. A new walking path was also created with the ARPA money.
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Parable of the drowning man - Wikipedia
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I thought about something the other day as I near 50 years old growing up in this state of NC….As a child during summer break from school I stayed with my grandparents while my parents worked….Well really my grandmother because Pa was working as well…Most times during the summer months Thunder Storms would come up….My grandmother would cut all the lights off….Unplug the TV and all appliances and tell me and my sister to lay down…
Basically I have seen storms like this my whole life in NC….
Crabtree Valley Mall area used to flood every time…If you were in the Mall you would have to wait if a storm came up….Good Times…
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ah, the climatological version of "both sides"
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As in show me the facts?
The DAY of Chantel the forecast was very wrong but hey, it’s been figured out on a millennial timeframe.
Bosiders open to all truths are the only ones with any intelligence.
Cue the onesider eye rolls
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Fact: it used to snow.
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Fact, a lot of snow in the last 12 months
Carolina Fever
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My grandma did the same thing, except she would say we might have to get under the dining table if it got worse. She had a battery operated TV radio that she would listen to. I do remember having thunderstorms pretty much weekly in the summer back then. I don't recall having this many storms as we have had the last couple of weeks in a long time.