ScottsGT

One of the issues I’m reading now is big hearted people and churches are showing up to help with supplies and they’re getting turned around and asked to leave donations with them. Makes total sense to me. I was there for Hugo. People came in droves. The biggest difference was we had the room in the low country of SC. Everything in Western NC is narrow roads, smaller areas and half or more of the roads washed out. Everyone online is acting like it’s a conspiracy theory, but they need to realize they will just be in the way of the officials. They did put up a webpage directing people to check in with the coordinators to see if they can use them or just where to deliver supplies to.

I’m starting to hear stories of bodies piling up in rivers in NC but they don’t have the resources to retrieve them since they are still trying to rescue those that are alive. Power grids down for months because the entire power station was wiped out and no spare parts because they were sent to another country. Now they hope manufacturing can go into overdrive to produce more but of course now we have dock workers on strike and how many of these transformers are built with imported parts? I’m all for the US providing assistance around the globe, but we cannot be taking the shirt off our back. We just need to give them one hanging in the closet.

It’s absolutely horrible what happened to that area of NC. I was in Chimney Rock on August 21st. It’s so hard to believe it’s all gone now. My sons future wife had friends on CNN that list everything but the clothes on their back and their two cats. A guy on another forum lost everything in 30 min time in Boone. The creek next to his condo overflowed by 8’ in minutes and 30 min later he was standing in waist deep water inside. The website has a fund raiser for him I’ve donated to. A little mud and sticks on my dock is nothing! Once again, we’re counting our blessings.

Get ready for those daily emails now!

Nessie stopped by for a beer!

That thing is so odd looking I’d have to have one if it were 1/32.

Great news on our end here. We peaked last night at 106’ and water is already receding! We’re down to 105’ at this moment. We never lost the one side of the floating dock over the pole nor did it hit the roof of the main dock. And water didn’t hit the electrical on the lift. But now we gotta get out there and get the brooms off the top of the pole the wife attached if it did get too high. They may become permanent. LOL!

Any timeline mentioned? I need a lot of pre planning time to smuggle one across the border.

We got power restored this morning at 5:41. How rude of those linemen waking me up to go shut down the generator, plug the fridges back in, closing all the windows and turning on the AC! But it was exactly 48 hours almost down to the minute we were out of power. On a bright note, the prediction of water rise was lowered by almost a foot. This morning we woke to what looked like an island of grass/weeds and debris floating down the main channel towards the dam.

Rog, looks great man! You did good on your color choices. Are you planning on an epoxy finish on the parking area?

You know, the airbrush cleaner is the same thing as their glue you bought? I quit buying the glue and just refill my glue bottle with the cleaner. There’s a YouTube video where a guy looked up the safety data sheet. It made up of two chemicals. The only difference was the glue has something like 2% more of one of the chemicals than the cleaner. Like cleaner is 50/50 and glue is 48/52. But I’ve never had any issues using straight cleaner.

And please, if you’re a praying person, thoughts and prayers to those in Western NC. The tiny town of Chimney Rock is gone. Like nothing left but cleared land where it once was. Son’s future MIL is trapped on their land due to all roads in and out washed away.

I’m really thinking hard about getting the one for the Academy CH-53E kit I have.

From what they’re predicting, that floating dock on the left will be against the main dock roof. On my lift there’s an electrical box that has all the controls for it. This box usually takes me an 8’ ladder to reach it. Yesterday I unbolted it and swung it around to the back side of the pole and roped it in place. The floating dock would have smashed into it and busted it up pretty bad. My fear now is morons that just gotta get in their boats and ride around kicking up wakes causing further damage to docks. DNR needs to close off the landings to everyone but residents trying to get boats out.

Woke up to 105.3’ this morning. Never thought I’d see the railing posts under water. Edit: And still rising.