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CALLING @ECBG

Shanus — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:12:40 GMT

Hi. Been seeing the terrible weather, rock slides, highway closures....I've been worried about you. All OK?

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ECBG — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:31:24 GMT

@Shanus

We're fine, thank you.

Our house is built into the side of a hill with the creek (that became a raging river) 20 feet below our driveway.

The water was strong enough to move a 400 lb foot bridge DH had made and placed over the creek.

We can see very well; our bedroom window is 3 stories up with a full basement.

I built this house to give you the illusion of being in a tree house.

This water comes from the rain as well as the cove we are in.

DH went to Chimney Rock to deliver a new computer cable he had made yesterday, and the water was so dangerous there, they had closed the rock.

I close today, and leave at 7:30 so I will be able to see well. The roads should be straightened out before I go in at 2 pm.

I drive next to the large French Broad river which can always present issues.

In rain like this, the water will come up to the road. In some places on the other side it's a solid rock wall.

The water is usually clear. This is after a large rain.

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Kachina624 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:30:18 GMT

We had 4 people killed in one week in flash floods in the city limits of Albuquerque. I believe Arizona has had deaths in similar flooding.

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ECBG — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:33:20 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
We had 4 people killed in one week in flash floods in the city limits of Albuquerque. I believe Arizona has had deaths in similar flooding.

@Kachina624

How are you?

Your area is under mud from the surrounding mountain.

It's a good thing the duck left!

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Sooner — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:44:56 GMT

@ECBG You live in a very very beautiful area! One of my favorites!

@Kachina624 It is breath taking to come in to Albuquerque from the east at night! All those lights in the bowl!

Way back in 1967 we stayed in some round motel I think there. I remember the wind making a whistling sound. I thought the whole thing was so exotic!

Although I have been back there several times, not there in a long time!

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ECBG — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:57:36 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
@ECBG You live in a very very beautiful area! One of my favorites!

@Kachina624 It is breath taking to come in to Albuquerque from the east at night! All those lights in the bowl!

Way back in 1967 we stayed in some round motel I think there. I remember the wind making a whistling sound. I thought the whole thing was so exotic!

Although I have been back there several times, not there in a long time!

@Sooner

If you're not to far away, "leaf season" is the same time as the big Guild craft show at the civic center. It's quite a visual treat!

You can also go to Chimney Rock Park where you can see 5 states. DH was there yesterday.

I've already taken off, you can bet!

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Jk9 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:02:41 GMT

@ECBG I was concerned about you too. Good to see you are ok. I live in the Carolina foothills below you (I am 15 minutes from the TIEC) and in "horse country". We had terrible storms yesterday in late afternoon and evening with the tornado sirens going off twice in a couple of hours. Roads flooded all around. We have a creek below our house and it has weakened our driveway so much this year that we are replacing the section. Water overwhelms the flow pipe and rises about 8 feet to flow over the driveway. Same happening to our neighbors and sections of public roads.

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ECBG — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:11:28 GMT

@Jk9

Good to hear you're doing ok. Water is a powerful force.

We get a lot of run off being in the bottom of a large cove.

What is "TIEC" please?

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Jk9 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:40:29 GMT

@ECBG sorry. TIEC is the Tryon International Equestrian Center. It's off hwy 74 east of Columbus. Love the pic of Chimney Rock.

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ECBG — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:45:10 GMT

@Jk9

Thank you. I grew up with horses and had a large strawberry roan which I used to ride up to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

I moved into the city at 14 and experienced city life.

My high school was built during the Art Deco period which was interesting.

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Shanus — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:48:21 GMT

So happy ALL involved w/ rain, flooding, etc. are OK.

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Kachina624 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:13:08 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
@ECBG You live in a very very beautiful area! One of my favorites!

@Kachina624 It is breath taking to come in to Albuquerque from the east at night! All those lights in the bowl!

Way back in 1967 we stayed in some round motel I think there. I remember the wind making a whistling sound. I thought the whole thing was so exotic!

Although I have been back there several times, not there in a long time!

@Sooner Yes, it's rather spectacular if you come from the East on I-40 through Tijeras Canyon. All of a sudden you break out of the canyon and the city is laid out before you.

It rains in the mountains right on the East edge of town, the water rushes down in arroyos into the city where they're cement-lined and fenced to keep people out. However, street people, often drug addicts, break through the fences and sit on the slopping sides under the bridges. Water rushes down very suddenly with great force and sweeps them away. They say you can't stay on your feet in 4" of water it's rushing so fast. It was up to 10' deep recently.

The first thing parents here teach their children is to stay out of the arroyos.

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Sooner — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:46:27 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
@ECBG You live in a very very beautiful area! One of my favorites!

@Kachina624 It is breath taking to come in to Albuquerque from the east at night! All those lights in the bowl!

Way back in 1967 we stayed in some round motel I think there. I remember the wind making a whistling sound. I thought the whole thing was so exotic!

Although I have been back there several times, not there in a long time!
@Sooner

If you're not to far away, "leaf season" is the same time as the big Guild craft show at the civic center. It's quite a visual treat!
You can also go to Chimney Rock Park where you can see 5 states. DH was there yesterday.

I've already taken off, you can bet!

@ECBG I don't see us traveling again, but have been to Ashville and Biltmore many times, up and down Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive many times, and often in the autumn and even on the Parkway in the dark--some big bird nearly flew in the car! We have watchen the sunset from up there!

We had a night tour of Biltmore one December in the snow and it was magical!

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Jk9 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:34:02 GMT

@ECBG Your roan sounds lovely. We stopped riding about 2 1/2 years ago when DH's horse threw him and shattered his femur. Decided we were too old to take those risks anymore. But we love being out here in the "wilds" while we can.