Like, one, get fucked, and two, Chimney Rock was a tourist town that existed for people to buy gas and kitsch when they visited the state park so who the hell knows if those were actually locals' cars vs. some jackass from the Research Triangle.

Like, that isn't a joke, if he was somewhere in the continental US I'd have driven all the way to his house to sock him one.

The guy I saw talking shit about Chimney Rock, a town which doesn't exist anymore, because there were people in Childcrusher 3000's in the "before" picture is lucky he lives in another fucking *country*. I don't have school for a week and there's a couple roads out of state open now.

If you haven't been flooded out and have never experienced what it is like I don't want to hear shit from you about telling people what to do in the wake of a flood

Take your moralizing climate change bullshit and fucking shove it

Yeah, it looks like that happened with the section of I-40 that runs to TN.

Maybe it really *will* take a year to fix I-40, but I suspect that, for now, is a placeholder time that's the furthest out they can effectively place the repair time.

Two important things for everyone to remember right now: 1) Given that this flood was, in the Asheville area at least, record-breaking, we don't have a good picture of what the damage is like beyond "bad". 2) Given that, the NCDOT tends to follow the Scotty rule and put repair times way out ahead.

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That's most likely a placeholder- the damage isn't *that* severe from what I've heard, NCDOT as of last night was talking about it taking weeks to open it back up, not a year.