Badlands News Brief – August 7, 2024
BREAKING: Pakistani National with Iranian Ties Charged with Murder-for-Hire in Foiled Assassination Plot Against President Trump
Rumble Joins X to Sue Advertising Cartel that Allegedly Conspired to Withhold Digital Advertising Revenue
Conservative prof wins $2.4 million in settlement through free speech lawsuit
Harris and Walz: Atop the Democrats’ Wedding Cake
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz Demands DHS Release ALL Correspondence On VP Harris’s Role As “Border Czar”
2024 Reminder – Why Tim Walz, Minneapolis, Democrats in 2024, Chicago and the Connection to The Clyburn Network
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holds more U.S. Treasury bills than the Federal Reserve
TWEETS!
Her replacement may make all the meetings, but he’s still going to vote the same way she did when she bothered to show up.
“Cuddly?” They’re kidding, right?
MEMES and FUN STUFF
Story of my life…especially with Illinois drivers. They are rude and drive way too fast.
My mother, the late grammar nazi, would say, right before the at…and there is no verb in that sentence.
Are there really any others? Okay, yeah, several, but the technical issues with the way she sings just giver her away.
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Matthew 5:13-16
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Wake up!
I am, I am and I only got four hours sleep!
How are conditions? CV seems to be concerned.
So far OK. The eye seems to be around Fayetteville. Right now we do not have much rain but CV is getting plastered.
Unfortunately the storm will rotate so we will probably get plastered again.😫
So she is in the Cape Fear River drainage?
California has such a strange drainage situation (everything in the middle of the state has to flow out past San Francisco) that the Atlantic Coast barely makes sense.
Here is a map of our rivers. We have a LOT! And many drain directly into the Atlantic.
So many beautiful rivers.
I won’t be able to really study them until I’m there and can see them. Book-larnin’ only gets you so far.
departure date set?
Within a week of:
(a) I win the lottery,
(b) this house burns down,
(c) this house destroyed by earthquake,
(d) Fiancee comes to her senses,
or (e) Fiancee drops dead.
in other words, never 🙁 unless the clot shot takes out your lady love 🙁
There are a variety of options under (d), but the timing of the other options is not under my control.
d would be best for sure 🙂
B and E are the most entertaining, unless smart thinking is applied to change D. 😉
old dog, new tricks, not likely 😉
Come, come. You’ve surely watched enough British TV to realize that B and E are the only things over which you have control. But since those are not MORAL options, you need to change D with just as much cunning as you would need for B or E.
If you build it, she will come.
If you STOP building the current it, she will LEAVE.
Time to make a plan, then execute it. A plan for the good of you both! You may go through some rough moments in the middle, but THAT is why men exist.
ITA. If the plan doesn’t have to involve selling current home to purchase the next it opens up the dream. Buy cheap, rural..cash if possible and own it outright. If there’s some type of structure already there, remodeling won’t cost an arm and leg for permits.
I was talking with my insurance people while making sure I did not have more insurance than needed. She said the cost of building materials is still very high. On the other hand, I have no external structures except the mailbox. Still they give me “free” insurance for external structures. So, I have free insurance to cover a $61k mailbox.
Yeah the cost of everything sky high! Good on you for your insurance situation.
I go into 2 Habitat for Humanity stores here a lot and it’s gobsmacking the things a crafty guy could use, beautiful cabinets, old doors, plantation shutters, tile, etc.
Ultimatums are a last recourse.
Next to last recourse. The last recourse is waiting till she’s away, gathering what you cannot bear to leave, and go go go.
I’m not talking “ultimatums”. Yes, those are both a last recourse and stupid. Ultimatums require the other party to consent, react, or engage in some way. NO. Begin to present fait accomplis which define all acceptable futures.
Simply act. In ways that the other party’s interests will be both predictable, and ultimately beneficial for them, whatever they choose.
I’m talking ACTION, and make the woman deal. Cover the downside (which in this case is moving, and she does not, then finding a new and better fiance).
This is a WIN-WIN approach. At least, it would be for me.
Striking out as a scout – no permission asked – no asking to be forgiven, either.
Generally, I find, when men “man up”, women respect it. They push weak men around, but defer to strong men – including those who leave and find better women.
Actually that is what I meant but I probably should have said “take decisive action.”
Given the mess California is in, getting out NOW has become more and more urgent. Both from a financial position and from a safety position.
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As a woman, I can surmise she feels safe in HER home and the idea of moving across country is frightening to some extent. You are also dealing with sheer inertia.
Anticipating having to move to Germany was a frightening experience for me.
Coothie can ease her into the move more slowly by taking molly’s advice and ‘buying a fixer-upper ‘Vacation home.’
Also that home will feel like hers and she will get to know people.
That’s a good, non-threatening term for it – “taking decisive action”!!! And exactly what needs to be done.
“ THAT is why men exist.”
born for the battle
sometimes with the battleax!
Coothie,
At least I had better luck. Hubby had never really lived outside of the Boston are except for college, but was quite willing to move to NC after we took a trip down here to scout ot the place.
Many in the North think it is Southern HICKS but we have two cities with a high number of Phds
50 U.S. Cities with the Most Doctoral Degree Holders
36. Durham, North CarolinaAs per estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau covering 2008 to 2012, 46.6 percent of Durham, North Carolina’s inhabitants aged 25 and up had earned a bachelor’s degree or above. Moreover, 4.6 percent of the 2012 population – placed at 239,633 – held doctorates.
34. Cary, North CarolinaHeadquartered in Cary, North Carolina, the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) Institute pulled in a staggering total revenue of just over $3 billion in 2013. That same year, the software company had 5,131 people from the area in its employment – possibly including more than a few who possess a doctorate. SAS CEO Jim Goodnight is himself a Ph.D. holder, having achieved this postgraduate degree at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Aside from its proximity to North Carolina State, Cary is also very close to Duke University in Durham and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2012 the city had an estimated total population of 145,794, and 4.7 percent of those people held doctoral degrees.
The Fiancee seems to love the house (that I extensively remodeled and rebuilt) more than she loves me.
While most of the constraints and limitations of what I have done to this place are because it’s here. If I had this same house on five acres in another state, I could add a private spa, quilting studio, and substantial storage — and it wouldn’t cost a freakin’ arm-and-leg in property taxes.
You can now do virtual tours of houses. Find ones you think she might like and do a sales pitch. include local goodies like close to….
The problem is that I’ve made this house very nice. Mind you, every time I had a possible improvement she kvetched through the planning and freaked-out after demo — but I have built the nicest house in the area.
Which she has proceeded to ill-maintain and abuse. I spend substantial time repairing things she has broken or abandoned.
And I have come to utterly loathe and despise this place. None of my favorite reasons to be in Silicon Valley exist any more, and all of my creations in this house are wrecked.
Having my possessions stolen was just another reminder that I am not welcome here — this is not fertile soil for my efforts to bring fruit.
That’s so sad on multiple fronts. I’m sorry that you & your efforts are not being appropriately appreciated 🙁 🙁 🙁
Good grief, she should have to live with my Hubby for a year!
Nice Guy, but as his brother said, I will hire a …. I want it done some time THIS CENTURY!
Nice 😉
Sticking my nose into this convo…have you thought about looking for the worst house in your favorite location for a vacation house? It would give you lots of time to be creative with fixing it up, a place to get some R & R. Fiance could come when she felt inclined
You Are Brilliant.
😍
Let me know if you want me to do any scouting after you have found the area you want and possible properties.
If you do not HAVE to work, Do what I did, figure out where the price drops like a rock. It is usually about an hours commute from then nearest industrial center/city/Univ
Yup. And pick a place very close to where she would TRANSFER to her new government job in NC.
The Fiancee selected NC after we had both spent some time there. Unfortunately, she wasn’t sincere.
Well, if you move there into some cheap fixer-upper near where she would need to transfer, and you’re fixing THAT place instead of your current one, she has an interesting choice that will shift in your favor over time. She can be where the fixing is, or not.
Yes, NC is a wonderful state. LOTS to visit and see.
The Fiancee was tasked to open a branch office of her Silicon Valley company to run tech support in the Eastern Time Zone. She spent many weeks out there in the Triad — and I flew out and tooled around the state.
[She set the office set up nicely, and got it running, and a couple of corporate actions eliminated the tech support site and merged her company into its dominant competitor.]
She generally stayed in Greensboro, so I’ve seen a lot of High Point and Winston-Salem. I’ve been to Charlotte, and Raleigh, and Cary. I’ve been to Asheboro and Asheville and Hickory, and over the hill to my aunt’s place in Knoxville and back (and Pigeon Forge).
One of my peregrinations had me returning from the Triangle out across some country to somewhere around Asheboro — I think it may have been US64 (but it might well have been NC27) and I was just captivated by how green and beautiful it was.
California hills are green for about six weeks, and are brown the other 10-1/2 months of the year. I was zipping along, trying to get back before dark, and the countryside was gorgeous and the hills were full of trees. I imagine that Gail lives in such a place.
YUP!
My girl friend is from AZ and IA, she LOVES looking at the hills and the trees. Starting late Feb when the Daffys start showing it is BLOOM BLOOM BLOOM… I love the various delicate shades of trees as the trees start to leaf out. And the red, yellow & white haze from the tiny tree blossoms.
Right now the red bud trees are blooming. 😄
Our red bud tree bloomed in the spring & it’s all leafed out now.
Ours are leafed but blooming.
OOPS they are Crape Myrtles. I was told they were red buds. 🙄 Ours are volunteers.
They come in a variety of colors and sizes
Some of the National Arboretum hybrids you may be familiar with are:
Muskogee – to 30’ – light lavender flower – red orange fall color
Tuscarora – to 20’ – dark coral pink flower – red orange fall color
Natchez – to 30’ – white flower – cinnamon colored trunk – yellow to red to orange fall color
Arapaho – 20-30’ – true red flower – maroon tinged leaves
Fantasy – 25-40’ – white flower, fragrance emits a sweet nectar for bees, cinnamon trunk
If you do not have the space for a 20 or 30 foot tree try using one of the shrub or dwarf varieties.
Chickasaw – 1-3’ shrub – light lavender pink
Chica – 2-4’ shrub – deep red
Pokomoke – 3-5’ shrub – deep rose pink
Hopi – 5-10’ large shrub – clear light pink
Dynamite – 6-8’ dense shrub – true red
Acoma – 6-10’ – white flowers – semi- dwarf weeping habit
Catawba – 8-10’ – violet purple – dense shrub
I was gonna say. Red buds are a spring thing for blooming.
But these other things look interesting!
They are quite pretty, fast growing and very welcome since they are blooming now when most perennials have gone by.
PHOTOS
We have a crape myrtle.
I remember the crepe myrtles when I lived in Tulsa, quite lovely! You’re blessed some showed up in your yard!
When I have the chance I grab seeds from trees of different colors than I have that I see on my trips. Now I have to find a good place to plant them.
Are the seeds in the flowers? They’re all over the place here, I could get some too
I have never seen anything resembling a crape myrtle spring up from the piles of flowers we’ve had every year. I suspect that our tree is a sterile hybrid.
They get a fruit the size of a cherry pit. That is what I grab. Now I just have to select a place and find the time to plant them.
I used to have a 100 house plants and a nice garden when I lived up north. Down here I just have not had the time for a garden too.
That’s a great idea!
Coothie
Thank you.
Torrential rains since about Midnight last night. The wind is also now blowing hard. Tornado Watch until at least 1PM today. Flood Warning until at least 4PM today. Local weather is saying up to 9 inches total between late last night into last Friday night.
Got about 3 hours’ sleep last night, between one thing and another related to bad weather prep, monitoring rainfall via the radio, etc.
At least one tornado has hit areas south of Raleigh.
Trees are starting to fall, everywhere in this area. This is my biggest concern. There are “short root system” pine trees all over the place. They’re in every yard around here, including mine.
Roads and streets are flooding, and/or have high standing water, and/or have fallen trees on them.
The power has snapped off, then back on, several times. I expect complete power outage by around 1PM today, if not earlier.
The place where I live abuts a public-private golf course. A tributary stream of the Eno River runs along the edge. The golf course and the stream are starting to flood. The Eno River will likely be a flood stage by early this afternoon. Other rivers in the area, like the Neuse River and the Tar River, are also pretty close to flood stage.
I’m holding tight so far. Have supplies for at least several days if the power goes completely out.
Here’s a photo of the golf course and the stream (“Sevenmile Creek”) taken from the bedroom window about an hour ago:
Please Stay safe. And yes TREES are my biggest worry. Luckily I moved all the ponies into the center paddocks away from the trees a couple days ago. Same with the sheep. The house, out buildings (and Goats) are the only things the trees can hit.
Thank you, dear De Pat, for a thoughtful and thorough Thursday post.
I wonder if Walz and his red hammer have ever visited Nancy’s hubby.
Likely frequent like establishments.
Hoe and Woe, I can’t go…… (stolen valor)
Her outfits always covered her legs. She needs to button that jacket 😬
Hoe is progressive. Progressively looking like hildabeast.
WELL, they did it with the slavery issue so why not the Clotshot?
🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩
I bet those shirts and hats were GIVEN to the crowd just as the signs were GIVEN to the crowd. MAGA buys their gear. They also are not BRIBED with an ALL STAR entertainment cast.
I’m impressed. It looks just like a Trump event except there’s no red hats.
Yea, I’m also impressed.
D-Rat voters, assuming they vote, attend for the concert aspect.
THAT aspect is hugely unreported. Needs highlighting.
Harri-Walz the concert crashers
SMART!
Taking notes.
Wolverines!
Great answer, but what a bizarre question to ask.
It’s a “fear question” for the Dem fold and their losable independents.
To them, Walz is “cuddly” and Vance looks like a scary redneck.
Who is a good character at Lake Wobegon? Cuddly liberal Tim Walz, of course! He fits right in!
posted wrong spot
I guess, I do not fit the Dem profile. Walz looks scary to me not Vance. Of course he looks a lot like most of my neighbors who are great people. 🤓
Exactly. But BEWARE!!!
The Dem profile is what spreads and takes over when AWFULs find a “charming” rural or small town community and move into it. AWFULs (many of whom are lesbians) love “traditional” communities, free of crime, after their youth in more urban areas, which they themselves helped to blight with their tolerance of crime, mental illness, and politically correct corruption. The rainbow flag follows them. Their preference for WEAK MEN comes with them.
We are well aware of that. Unfortunately the nearby tow is a member of ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) now called ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability.
If a tire needs changed, a toilet needs unclogged, or a teenager needs a come-to-Jesus, give me a scary hillbilly (J.D. is definitely a hillbilly) every time!
“Scary redneck” who wears well-fitting tailored suits, is well spoken, appears to be in good shape, is a family man, and served his country in the military. I guess any man who appears to have some testosterone is scary now.
YUP!!! “Toxic masculinity”!!!
The correct answer is Vance. Vance would help you. Walz wouldn’t even stop.
And if he did stop he would probably talk your ear off and do NOTHING…
OR
Drop dead of a heart attack. (He is Boosted isn’t he?)
Heck, I was the one who stopped and did the tire changing! In one case, I could not break the last nut loose. I actually got the State Trooper to do it for me after he told me he was not allowed to. 😂
When the gal’s brother finally showed just after I finished the tire change, I chewed him out for NOT teaching his sister how to do it herself.
His sister looked a lot like a young Sophia Loren, and should NOT have been left to the kindness of strangers!
Jack Posobiec:
Imagine the memes that could be made of Timmy attacking a pillow.
Mike Lindell’s been rather quiet recently. Hope Mike AND MyPillow are doing well.
I think he is having a hard time selling his products. After all there are only so many pillows, sheets & towells you can buy and they don’t wear out… except for the furry sheep skin slippers. HORRIBLE plastic soles with too much regrind/recycled plastic so they disintegrate in about a year. Happened to mine and is now happening to Hubby’s. I have the cheaper Non furry slippers and so far they are fine. Hubby wants another pair of the sheepskin type.
Maybe when we have the money we will get the bed topper.
Yup.
We’ve bought pillows for every bed, kids. Grands… Have sheets to outlet me.
As Steve opined about EVs, applies to My Pillow stuff.
-Folks that are gonna buy them, have done so.
Replacements way down the road.
I keep an eye on his website, but I can only buy so much.
If the Left cancel machine hadn’t exxed him off of big stores he’d be doing much better.
Ok, that’s it, now I’m PISSED!
Attacking Mike Lindell is the last straw!
England’s government is extremely gay/fascist.
Wishful thinking, or does he have evidence?
Maybe he’s referring to this.
I saw the same thing (“much worse is coming”) said by some MN-sounding normies on a stolen valor thread today!
Another politician with a beard for a wife. Imagine that.
Just think, they could compare notes about how to please men….
😂🥴🤢
OR he can tell us how to please a dog…
This has to be the worst pair ever nominated for the White House, other than Obama and Biden.
that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
beware what might be coming
“Wait till reporters start asking the gay bar owners in Minnesota about Tim Walz.”
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I wouldn’t wait for that.
Godot will show up before reporters ever ask those questions 😂
“There’s a reason why he shakes his wife’s hand…”
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Yeah, that’s not weird… 🤣
I don’t know if Tony has receipts for this:
If this is true, Tim Waltz not only betrayed the US, but the Chinese protestors at Tiananmen Square:
But I have been told that he is very cuddly.
He is. It’s just to dudes, not women.
I think Trump should call him Cuddles or maybe Mr. Cuddles. I believe that would catch on quickly if it came from Trump’s lips.
hahahahah I like it
Cuddles is too nice for Walz.
Trump will come up with something more fitting, 100% demeaning.
If Trump ever mentions it i bet he clobbers the media too for doing what they’re told..double whammy
Every day will be tears in America if this woman is elected.
There is NOTHING WORSE than a STUPID INCOMPETENT who takes out their frustration at being incompetent ON EVERYONE ELSE. That explains Sucalotacox’s staffer turn over.
Now add in Pol Pot type communism and you have a complete disaster!
Inserted, she’ll never be elected.
cabal installed if at all 😡
Hopefully This time it will be too big to rig!
Yup. And then the question is what we do about THAT.
Exactly, then it becomes what will they do to us who question?
WHY do you think they have the Supreme Court PUNT on the Government Censorship question???
Yeah not far behind the UK in that regard.
Leftists reaping the rewards of incompetence.
It’s like a preview of the America they’re voting for.
Dumb like rocks.
And they want someone who can not even organize a rally to be our President?
“Hide your kids.”
May be a hint of what’s coming.
“John Walz Gacy”?
I did read somewhere that Walz likes “twinks,” very young.
I guess we’ll see what comes out.
IIRC, Laura Loomer is pursuing Walz stuff.
She is. And whatever is there, she will find it.
Since Obama, Democrats select a VP who is so bad that no one wants to impeach (or assassinate) their president. It was hard to find someone worse than Kamala, but Tampon Tim fulfills that role.
I think it’s a humiliation ritual.
Obastid hates white people, that’s why he likes to have gay white men *&^% his &^$#. It’s a power thing, the most grotesque thing he could do to a white man.
This is the same thing.
Make a ridiculously incompetent and evil black woman (a minority) ruler over the large majority of the population — white people — with a white man as her subordinate, just in case the point wasn’t clear enough.
wicked black woman
wicked fake black woman
FIFY.
The longer you look at that, the better it gets.
Katie Hopkins. Saying the Unsayable. The truth behind the riots in the U.K.
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She is describing the BLOB (Government/Private Gangsters, Deep State) not only in UK, but the US and the World.
I call it the CARTEL since it is an unholy alliance of ‘leaders’ from religion, government, business and ESPECIALLY FINANCE.
S U P E R B messaging by Katie.
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Did I miss the Elon Trump interview or whatever it was / will be?
It may be today, or soon, but I don’t think it happened yet.
Trump said soon they are just now planning it.
Today’s Trump Q&A, I understood next Monday.
Hey, guys — Gail’s article is up!
Thanx Coothie.
I can relate. 😆
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDkMjwmexV
It looks like that broadcast has already been disappeared 🙁
Go to $$
(remove $$)
It is interesting he starts with talking about video games. I while back I did a small comment on the Gamers tossing hissy fits because the WOKE gender benders were TARGETING the gaming industry. They actually had a ‘Consulting Group’ that was
contactingharassing all the different companies.TY
This was part of the big GamerGate thing, IIRC.
Yes it was.
It’s back up now, one of the links worked, I think it was the “August 8, 2024” link that worked.
Thx Scott 🙂
At around 40 minutes they talk about this case. (Jay) Jayanta Bhattacharya was told, although he had plenty of evidence that they were targeting HIS IDEAS, since he was not specifically NAMED by the government when they asked Social media to implement censorship, he had no standing.
So as long as the government CENSORS IDEAS it is now LEGAL. They just can not censor an INDIVIDUAL.
So Just like the 2nd Amendment and the right to protest, freedom of speech CAN NOW BE RESTRICTED by the government.
Amendment I
I guess since the Feds did not even bother with a law, it is now. A-OK to use CENSORSHIP in the USA. 😡
New Civil Liberties Alliance
Good online friends—
Please spare a prayer for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. Torrential rain since 11PM last night. Expected to last until Friday. High winds starting. Flooding happening. Local weather says up to 9 inches of rain by Friday. I expect power outages any minute. Trees may start falling by Noon if this keeps up. Hope to Almighty God that Solas and I are safe and don’t have to make a run for it.
Thank you.
Are you above or below the fall line?
Specifically, much of Raleigh is drained by the Neuse river, which passes through the city. The falls of the Neuse are underwater due to a dam completed in 1981 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_Lake ). If you are in the Neuse drainage area, and more elevated than Falls Dam, you are unlikely to see severe flooding because it would overtop and breach the dam and flood the low country very badly.
I have frontage on one of the other rivers. Luckily the house is 100 ft above the flood plain. Unfortunately some of my neighbors were STUPID ENOUGH to build ON the flood plain near the river.
I have seen that area a good 3 feet or more under water.
I am more worried about trees. Esp the ones directly south of the house.
I could understand building barns, livestock shelters, and such in the flood plain. Houses? Garages? Not so much.
As my geology prof said. NEVER build in a river AND a flood plain IS PART OF THE RIVER, it is just the part that is not used very much.
The flood plain does make wonderful grazing and crop land though. All the very nice top soil that was on the top of my hill is now on the flood plain. I KNOW it is at least 2 1/2 feet of rich black soil from digging fence post holes.
In California, many residential areas are known as particular Valleys — I live in the Santa Clara Valley, I used to live in the Santa Clarita Valley, regions around LA are the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, Walnut-Pomona Valley…..(and, then, there’s the “LA Basin”, which is a huge tell).
Luxury areas include the Hollywood Hills, Berkeley Hills, Oakland Hills, Los Altos, and such…..in Santa Barbara, it’s “La Mesa” and the Riviera.
I went to school in the mid-west. I made sure we built just down hill from the highest point. My Ex Father-in-law’s house was built in a similar situation and a LARGE tornado JUMPED over their house.😱
That will make a believer out of anybody.
I can remember standing at the window in the dorm and watching the funnel clouds form, touch down and then get sucked back up into the clouds.
North Carolina is nice. We get tornadoes, hurricanes, ice storms AND earthquakes.
Luckily it is not all that frequently for any of them.
Santa Clarita — the memories bubble up!
Newhall, Saugus, Valencia, Soledad Canyon, Bouquet Canyon, Castaic Junction, — all a big chunk of my younger years.
ThanQ for kicking the dusty old box. 🙂
I should note that one of the houses that sent my sister and I through college was built in Placerita Canyon. The (normally) dry wash cut off 20% of the back yard.
My dad, the civil engineer, built the slab foundation about two feet higher than was required by code. It also had a bunch of rebar in the slab.
One year, during the rainy season, a tree fell over into the wash about a quarter mile upstream from our house. That deflected the running water across the channel into some natural bank (adobe mud) on the opposite side, which eroded quite a bit……but then sent it back over to our side into our neighbor’s back yard which was built on fill.
It took out a substantial part of the rear 25′ of his fenced yard, including most of his horse corrals.
Coothie
Thank you. I replied to your earlier query above in the discussion thread. Basically, “the situation is rapidly deteriorating” around the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill areas and beyond.
The golf course and stream that edges it (a tributary of the Eno River) are starting to flood. Flood warning and tornado watches/warnings all over the place.
The trees are falling due to the high winds and the completely saturated ground. Trees falling is my main concern. Roads, streets closed all over the place. Local weather predicts up to 9 inches total of rain to fall until Friday afternoon. Local weather also monitoring the local rivers (Eno, Neuse, Tar among them.) Flood stage for these rivers will be reached by tomorrow morning to afternoon.
I expect complete power outage by around 1PM today.
So far, I’m holding tight. Only got about 4 hours’ sleep last night.
The storm is headed right thru the Piedmont. Wilmington to Fayetteville to Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill.
We are getting hit with waves of high wind & rain and then nothing.
My impression of the Piedmont is that it has substantially more hills than the major metropolitan valleys of California. Flooding would be restricted to those places very near creeks and streams.
OTOH, to my untrained Californian eye, it appears that much of the coastal plain is flooded more or less continually.
Well I certainly would not live there!
And yes the Piedmont is hills. Literally fossilized sand dunes in the southern area. North of Fayetteville you get into clay and gravel, but still HILLS.
On one of the roads I travel which is quite straight, you can literally come to the top of one of the hills and see the ‘dunes’
The area with gravel is something else. It is a thin layer of top soil over what looks like a gravel driveway! The stones are rounded and go from pea size to the size of your head.
🙏
That is the reason I did not try to sleep again. The electric is up but ‘flakey’ right now.
stay safe
I just filled extra jugs with water and put food in a cooler so we are good to go. We have 2 generators if we have a long outage.
hope it blows over without any issues for you or PAVACA
So far the power is on here but it is out all over the place.
stay safe!!
Still flickering!
I got my FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT T shirt with the above picture ( President Trump, fist in the air, blood on his face) finally.
the t shirt itself is purple…because a) i look fabulous in purple LOL and b) why not? it’ll stand out more.
plan to get more now that i see the quality of the t shirt itself.
If you get any reactions out & about please share them! I love purple 🙂
i will!
yesterday in walmart, I was wearing my “of course I talk to myself, sometimes I need expert advice” t shirt–4 people–different ages and sexes smiled and said they liked my shirt.
sweet!
That’s because they were tired of getting bad advice. 😂
Tell us WHERE you ordered it from!
i got mine from amazon tbh
they have men and women’s sizes in a variety of background colors.
$17.99
I bought one to see the quality of the t shirt and it was decent.
I bought my “where we go one, we go all”, and my “choose greatness” t shirts from there as well years ago
ThankQ. I will check it out and try to find the vendor to buy direct. I HATE Amazon.
i know a lot of people do…lol.
if you find one, let us know.
As long as it ain’t lavender. We don’t want you to be mistaken for a queer. 😂
these boobs are real.
(not that you asked…LOL)
There are a couple of questions that should never be asked …
Seems like a few guys around here appreciate a good WGTT’s report!
I have a T in bright purple that says “Why, Yes I do live in a barn” with a picture of someone mucking out a stall.
$35 https://officialhodgetwins.com/products/trump-fight-fight-fight-t-shirt
$30 https://donaldtrumpstore.com/products/fight-fight-fight
$25 https://www.officialtrump2024store.com/products/donald-trump-fight-fight-fight-assassination-attempt-photo-t-shirt
$23 This is an interesting version
https://capitoneshirt.com/product/trump-shoot-2024-fight-fight-fight-bulletproof-shirt/
Lots of Trump stuff: https://trumpfight2024.store/
Ain’t YANDEX GRAND!
Here is my search:
https://yandex.com/search/?text=trump+FIGHT+FIGHT+FIGHT+T+shirt&lr=113479&search_source=yacom_desktop_common
https://nitter.poast.org/DonnaCu17173846/status/1820039324752396438#m
https://nitter.poast.org/lubangawonderf1/status/1819965468502798662#m
https://nitter.poast.org/Vinod_r108/status/1820030641544827234#m
https://nitter.poast.org/rajnishradu/status/1819962369847504913#m
I think it is WEIRD that the left have convinced Blacks that a thieving drug addict who pointed a gun in to a pregnant woman’s belly should be their national HERO instead of someone like Dr Ben Carson
No kidding.
How about those who think Al Sharpton is an intellectual to be emulated instead of Thomas Sowell?
Trained people not to think for themselves nor to question anything that is presented to them as “fact” by their side. It’s extreme bizzaro world to me 😮
GO AUTISTS!
I miss Brian Dennehy.
agreed
good ones!
yes. It’s from a nitter conversation where Gail mentioned lots of good memes 🙂
They really were note worthy. Glad you brought some of them here.
Thx for the tip
The Demonrat Convention gonna be lit! – like a mixed martial arts no rules match or Saturday night at Walmart – with Joe and Jill, Kamala and Hillary duking it out over who’s going to be on the ticket – with Øbama, Pelosi and Shumer in there trying to referee.