Thankful Season
I hope your month started off well. We finally made it up to our tiny cabin after Hurricane Helene and I’m feeling thankful. The hurricane damage gets progressively worse as you drive west. We saw houses flattened, or rather, the pieces of what had once been houses, hanging in trees and strewn along the roadside. We saw people tent-camping in their yards next to their still-standing but ruined houses. What hit me hardest was the strangeness of the scenery. Here in North Carolina we are used to storm damage but inland it’s usually torn up trees and wind damage. There’s plenty of that to be sure, but there’s also flood damage we aren’t as used to up here. It’s so odd to see people’s belongings just scattered in ditches and road medians. So many pieces of furniture and clothing and household goods are just all over the place, even where there are no visible houses. I was also struck by the way the damage skips over some spots. A sports complex in the Asheville suburbs is just fla
