Happy birthday you old fart!

Dang, wrong side of the state. I do prefer your side to mine, though, for obvious reasons (Missoula).

I live in Asheville. Lot of utility people here working on power lines. Helicopters delivering supplies to isolated communities. All sorts of organizations helping. State and federal help is here of course. Iowa Nat Guard is here. We have 1500 US Army soldiers plus our NG.

Many highways are washed out. The Interstate near the TN line will be out for a year we are told. Help can now come from the south and east. Other major Interstate routes are out.

Radio stations broadcasting the names of missing loved ones, in hopes that someone has taken them in. Dogs searching debris for bodies.

No community has drinkable water. Cell service is slowly returning. Many still without power including my son. Hospital running with water delivered by truck. Some sections are fully repaired. My home has all services except be have to boil our water.

At restaurants there is no coffee or tossed salads.

My daughter in law is a physician. She opened her office today. No running water and generator power. Lost $25k of vaccines to spoilage.

Small business may never recover. Only 1% of people had flood insurance. River level is normally less than 2 feet. Rose to 29 feet.

Water mains are broken everywhere. Trees that fell are large mature hardwoods and white pines.

Most of you know better than we do regarding damages because our TV hasn’t worked.

And the reports out of NC have me not knowing what to believe.

At best I know from past similar experience the initial recovery is going to be a cluster slowly worked into something feasible and the federal is always grossly incompetent at best.

That Neon Green flagging worked for me In ND. The rats ate It right off the trap stakes.

We have hundreds of white squirrels in western NC. They are no albino however.

Intresting

Great news everyone! You can now mod your mouse traps with the Mouse Trap Hood!!


Mouse Trap Hood

I feel your pain. Not long ago I lost my best friend. The memories I'll never forget. When she was on one of her first hunts a dropped a pheasant on the far side of a big ditch. It was covered in duck weed and she thought it was grass. I was pulling off my mucks to jump in when she finally popped up. I'll never have another dog that connects with me the way she did

I went to Bismarck this morning. 110 miles south of me and a lot of the corn was blown down in the 60-80 mph wind we had the other day. Some fields have 60% damage or more some look like no wind at all. I am not sure why some are so bad and others no damage.

Thanks , it has a Nice Rifled Barrel

I have over 5k I'm set.

You're up.