Painful irony w/Helene's colossal damage in Asheville: the city recently placed #3 on a list of US cities most likely to experience "climate migration". Asheville summers are cool by Southeastern standards, and annual avg precip (~36") is low for the region. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
Migration due to climate change may land Asheville a lot of new residents in coming years according to a sustainable real estate expert.
what’s wild about the disaster in asheville is that it consistently ranks as one of the safest places to live for long-term sustainable climate change survival. none of this stuff is truly predictable in the mess we’re up against
AM/FM radio is likely the only lifeline right now to most people in a US city of 95,000 apnews.com/article/hurr...
Floodwaters pushed by remnants of Hurricane Helene have left North Carolina’s largest mountain city largely cut off by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone service.
Folks in the Carolinas calling in to the radio to share where cell service works
News Radio 570AM WWNC - Western North Carolina's News and Information Station
"Police talked to Elizabeth’s middle school guidance counselor and asked her to tell them about Elizabeth’s transition. The counselor said she was worried she’d break the law if she did, but an officer told her 'I am the law.'" wapo.st/47HSqBu
Half the country has banned trans girls from competing in girls sports. Jessica Norton didn’t suspect she’d be punished under one of the bans.
honestly last night when the screen went dark right at what appeared to be the closing shots of megalopolis, lights go up, ppl are leaving, ppl are checking imdb, ppl are refusing to believe it’s over, and after just about too long and most ppl have left the film starts up again mid-closing credits
The part in the middle about how secular folks need to organize ourselves to meet the service gap being left by shrinking traditional churches (I don’t know about your community, but I do not see megachurches doing this in mine) is incredibly timely given Helene.
More Gen Z women than Gen Z men have left the church. That’s big news! Here’s why I think it’s also the wave of the future: www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/the-remark...
Underneath all the buzz about the (allegedly) extremely corrupt and definitely just plain weird NYC mayor Eric Adams, the devastation of hurricane Helene, Israel’s operations in Lebanon, and the other...
what a relief it was that week when the subway shutdown and my neighborhood was relatively spared—and I’d never really noticed this church a few blocks from me, and now it was somewhere you could pop in for an hour and do something useful (unboxing donations and sorting them into pews, I remember)
My heart goes out to the Warren Wilson community. That college is a gem, and it had already been dealing with significant challenges even before the floods.
The “don’t tell people to just move away from ‘natural’ disasters“ discourse has (I hope) moved on a bit, but since moving out of fire and earthquake country and back to nearer the hurricane and blizzard country where I grew up, I think about where I want to live in climate collapse differently