Goldtent TA Paradise

Farmers from around the country are driving in feed and hay for the farm animals of the Appalachians…..

1. pedro_deleon says:

   October 21, 2024 - 10:45 am at 10:45 am

   “We’re up in Chimney Rock, North Carolina — These people up here have not even been checked on”

   Actually, Chimney Rock is DOWN (from Hendersonville and Bat Cave), its a small but popular tourist trap and just a short ways to Lake Lure, a large and beautiful man-made lake for those with summer homes there. It would be UP from Charlotte if that’s where folks fly into.

   Chimney Rock sits along the Broad river where I’d go to swim now and then. Its a narrow ravine. I’m sure folks have animals in the general area, but mostly to the east. This is NOT a farming community.

   Chimney Rock was identified EARLY as a casualty and lots of folks have vids of it, and its being cut off (road washed out, and town also). The dam at Lake Lure was also mentioned early on as a threat to fail, that would inundate the area toward Rutherfordton.

   As far as livestock goes, most of the farming would be in that same area miles well east of there. And relatively accessible via highway 9 and 74.

   It was the narrow and steep sided roadways along creeks and rivers that took the hit. Wide open pastures with farming came out fine.