Creek walk

During Hurricane Helene here at Tate’s home this beautiful creek became a raging river. The metal container at the fence was a full container of diesel fuel that was washed down stream from his neighbors yard over a mile away. It actually got stuck in the creek by the bridge but when Randy who lives across the road came to help Tate clean up the creek, he had the equipment to pick it up and move it to this location you see. Jack will come to get it sometimes but he works as a heavy equipment operator and has been very busy for the last five months.

A very cold day here in the mountains but sunny.

A little fact about this storm last September. This location is 600 miles (965km) from where Helene made landfall as a Hurricane. When it got here the wind was gusting at 90-100mph and rain was tremendous. Plus the area had already had two days of heavy rain from the north. We had wind damage and no power for 5 days at our home which is about 250 miles from here. It moved so very fast and was so huge that what happened here and at home were almost happening at the same time. A storm close to the size of all of the UK.

Mind boggling and we hope to never see this kind of storm again.