Radio WWNC (AM) reported in the last couple days that the maps showing damages and destruction per Hurricane Helene are pretty astounding. I know that over the past couple months as we round collapse of sections of I40 there's been surprises, changes in the flow of business and services because of it.
People are adjusting as best we can do.
I was reading about the birth of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and that's astounding too. The efforts for its creation started almost forty years before things came to fruition. Forty years!
And the efforts involved different group participation taking the lead at different times. It was bolstered by some top dollar people contributing, but it was also a heck of a lot of "elbow grease". Like so much of the greatness of America the actual getting it done isn't only about money.
To stand on a work of art/engineering like the Cherohalla Skyway is standing on the shoulders of giants. To me, it's no less profound--the amount of work to meet challenge--than shaking hands with a real man who sat on the beams of the World Trade Towers to eat lunch in his workdays. The only thing "little guy" about us "average Americans" is us in the scale of our achievements.
No. I listen to relevant local news but can't stand the assholic vitriole. Some of that just proves that some Republicans are just the same as Old European radical rightsters....putting hate of humanity other than self into using law enforcement as a machine. And every real person I know, no matter political party, agrees that you do the crime, you do the time. Like it's not okay to do crime.
In the past the real people of our country have stepped up to facilitate discreetly getting people out of potential violent situation...helping someone get in rehab or turn self in. It's really not humble at all to gloat that you are in charge of weaponry and to stoke fires of coming for you. It's so beneath a real leader, but talk show blather is not leadership.
I also get news from the BBC, a little less tangled in the media wars here.
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