RIP Maggie Smith. Class. Act.
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A life truly well lived, and one who gave us so much entertainment. The breadth of her acting was amazing.
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BACON!!
Bacon, sausages, shoulder, tenderloin, ribs, lard… pigs are a gift that keeps on giving 
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We have a solid pane small window that is ‘dotted’ with nose prints from our previous love bug. I’d never think of cleaning it. The current love bug marks the sliding pane next to it. The things you do for love.
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Get shelter and be safe!
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We never got any thunder and very little of the high winds here, so Weather was better than NOAA in this case.
We were quite lucky, there were tornadoes spawned in some places and Helene hit Southern GA still as a class 2 hurricane, which is very rare (to clarify - rare for one to make landfall in FL and cross the land border and still be a hurricane).
About 30 miles South of us, it arrived still at tropical storm strength, then sort of sliced right and petered out. Most of the damage in the whole area has been flooding, and the economic damage to ag (peanuts, cotton, pecan groves) will be pretty high.
I never got to see my thunderstorm. I usually sit in a camp chair in the garage, drink beer, and watch the light show. At 2 o’clock Weather finally admitted it wasn’t gonna happen, so I went to bed.
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Consider yourself lucky! Glad everyone’s ok.
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Sorry you didn’t get your thundah and lightning, very very frightening me! (Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Figaro magnifico light show. But glad there was no major damage near you.
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Whew! Relief to hear that your area did okay.
Hoping the same for any others in the storm’s path.
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With kids , I call it “reverse back stabbing.” Say great things behind others’ backs and it will come back to you; and in a good way. 
I’d rather smile than frown.
Glad you’re okay
How @ChristinaM ? What’s the weather like in Asheville?
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Daughter #3 - her area of NC has a lot of road closures, so she can’t come home this weekend.
She’s currently without electricity, without cell service, water pressure is low and is on a boil order, and they’ve been warned the water may peter out entirely.
Luckily she and her roomies did the “fill the tub” thing and also pulled off about 10 gallons of water to drink in advance.
She can get to a walmart for stuff, but she said it’s getting a bit bare-shelved (people go nuts). The cell tower over there is working, so at least she’ll be able to run over and update us from time to time.
Edit to add
The county I hovered over, Buncombe, is where Asheville is. That dark dark red is basically all customers without power.
My daughter’s county, Jackson is more in the 50% outage (orange) range. But it’s also quite rural, so it might actually take longer to get them back up and running.
My wife had the state’s road incident map up yesterday, and the entire Western ~ third of the state is blanketed with problems.
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Thank you. My sister lives in Durham, and was in Asheville last weekend. I reached out to her, but haven’t heard back yet.
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Looks like they got a lot of rain, too, but I guess not much in the way of power disruptions.
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SEE: predicted Snowmageddons in the Northeast.
I hope your daughter gets power and water back soon!
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I don’t even understand why this is newsworthy to the BBC?
Nearly all interactions between individuals and large corporations are governed by these “click to accept arbitration” style agreements.
I don’t think there’s a single thing in my life where I’m interfacing with a large corp, by agreement, where I haven’t agreed that I must use an arbitration panel rather than suing first in court.
Note I am not saying that I like it or that I think it’s a good thing, but that’s just the way things have been for 20+ years.
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