Mud Slide Slime

and the horizon of blues . . .

We just got power here today, thanks to some friendly Quebecois linemen. And now have internet. Sixteen days sans. Still no running water, and still feels like an outtake loop of M.A.S.H. with all the Chinooks flying overhead. Asheville far from open for business, lots of roads still closed. Many streetlights without power, and it has been enjoyable how everyone treats all these intersections as four-way stops, very polite. “After you.” “No, after you.”

One of our authors, Mindi Meltz (in case you don’t know, we have an independent publishing company, Logosophia), lives in Bat Cave, near Lake Lure. Possibly the most devastated region here. We had not heard from her and her husband Eric until yesterday. A mud slide just missed their home, but took out their propane tank, wood store, and bridges over what were creeks on their land. Lot of infrastructure loss. The roads around them destroyed, so that they were finally able to get out via 4 wheel after two weeks. They also have goats, and all are okay. Like all around here dealing with it still, they are in shock from the trauma.

Mindy is a masterful storyteller and literary fantasy world builder. We have published four of her wonderful, rich, books. Here is her page on our Logosophia website if you would like to enrich your reading life and give them a hand:

https://logosophiabooks.com/book-author/mindi-meltz/

https://logosophiabooks.com

This morning woke from a dream of driving with Krys along broken, mud-sloshed roads, shattered homes, splintered trees, and then into an open valley scarred with wide mud slides. Of course, everyone has stories, first, second and third hand, of what people have endured here, from the prosaic to the harrowing. Here is one theme: A little rainfall, a little wind, and sudden river rise, sudden mudslide, all of it apparently out of unexpectedness. Everyone knows the storm was seeded, geoengineered, directed, and stalled. Our congressman vehemently denies this. But the patents are all there in the open, if his AIPAC handlers would let him look. Now I am wondering if there was a DEW element to the astounding number of mud slides. Have not heard anyone speak of this, and certainly mud slides happen, but normally in areas of overdevelopment, not mountainsides of deep rooted arborage. Just a thought in a head that really does not need any more at the moment . . .