Before-and-after pictures of my cousins’ cabin near Cattail Creek, Burnsville, NC: Their cabin, car and many of their belongings were destroyed by mudslides.
Thanks, Jim. The great majority of North Carolinians have enjoyed the cool of the mountains during extreme heat and fun in snow during the winter. Many of us have vacation homes that were damaged or completely lost and many have even lost friends and family.
As you have noted with so much insight, those of us who have lost someone or something we love are not ready to speak in specifics. Even sharing photos is difficult.
This is not a time for hate. Like you, I hope there will be a great good that comes from the tragedy: that we will put aside resentments and anger to come together and help each other.
Perhaps we can relearn how to be a community again.
Thank you for this, Jim, and condolences to your cousins who went through such a frightening experience. But they and those they love survived and that’s a blessing! My dad was a director for Red Cross disaster services for 30 years in Western NY and the national office sent him to the aftermath of many hurricanes to help out. He said often that things can be replaced- lives can’t. Blessings for their recovery.
You ask, what do I think of the people who are committed to the ideology of the other party? My best response is that my feelings range from understanding with some respect, to understanding with little respect, to feeling baffled, to feeling angry at people who are hostile, hypocritical, or manipulative. I do feel more negatively for more of those I disagree with than for those I agree with, but there are fools and idiots on both sides.
Thanks, Jim. The great majority of North Carolinians have enjoyed the cool of the mountains during extreme heat and fun in snow during the winter. Many of us have vacation homes that were damaged or completely lost and many have even lost friends and family.
As you have noted with so much insight, those of us who have lost someone or something we love are not ready to speak in specifics. Even sharing photos is difficult.
This is not a time for hate. Like you, I hope there will be a great good that comes from the tragedy: that we will put aside resentments and anger to come together and help each other.
Perhaps we can relearn how to be a community again.
Thank you for this, Jim, and condolences to your cousins who went through such a frightening experience. But they and those they love survived and that’s a blessing! My dad was a director for Red Cross disaster services for 30 years in Western NY and the national office sent him to the aftermath of many hurricanes to help out. He said often that things can be replaced- lives can’t. Blessings for their recovery.
You ask, what do I think of the people who are committed to the ideology of the other party? My best response is that my feelings range from understanding with some respect, to understanding with little respect, to feeling baffled, to feeling angry at people who are hostile, hypocritical, or manipulative. I do feel more negatively for more of those I disagree with than for those I agree with, but there are fools and idiots on both sides.