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Riding out Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina
Today, two weeks after Hurricane Helene it is hard to comprehend the scope, scale, and fury of the storm that hit western North Carolina, East Tennessee, the Upstate in South Carolina and parts Georgia and Virginia. Social media posts are little tiny pieces of a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces, each with their own…
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Hope you are in a Tesla if you get stuck in a traffic standstill for hours
A winter storm this weekend is stretching from Arkansas through Tennessee into the Carolinas and moving in Virginia. The long holiday weekend of this latest storm is an appropriate time to recap responses to the claim made about how electric vehicles would have fared during the Virginia snowstorm earlier this month. A storm that went…
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Flooding in Knoxville
Just seven days ago, Knoxville was flooded by historic rainfall, more than five inches on in a day on top of 10 days of continuous rainy days. Here is what it looked like just outside my subdivision. This is the view across the street. The office building was heavily flooded. The parking is about half…
