Looking towards Asheville from my dentist's parking lot. Looks like rain might be coming.
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I drove home seeing more of the same clouds. I-40 has some patches next to bridges. On secondary roads, the bridge/road connections are worse sometimes. I hope our infrastructure will continue road work when various items are cut from budgets federal or state!
On Monday I saw these guys in the library parking lot in Black Mountain...probably waiting for the rest of the crew to go do some heavy work that still needs to be done in so many places following our disaster.
The YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly shared these shots from the hurricane waters hitting their grounds pretty powerfully.
My renter's insurance just updated my policy, telling me it doesn't cover floods. I can buy flood insurance separately. Boy, they probably had a lot of claims to pay from the disaster!
May the earth heal.
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Sharing with Skywatch Friday
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What did I do yesterday when it poured or sprinkled cold rain all day? I invited a friend to come work on dusting/cleaning my pottery and shelves. She did an excellent job, and now I want to go around and rearrange things! So there's a bit of spring happening inside this apartment. I shared some of my bounty that I got from the food bank distributors, Bounty and Soul. I also gave her some money, for I wanted to respect her time as she gave efforts to me. I wore a mask to avoid inhaling the dust, and most of the time that worked...but I got tired of it after a few hours. I'm tired now anyway, and I bet she is too.
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Today's quote:
By noticing how small things can fill our days with delight, we are more likely to experience the wonder of living.
Today's art:
Clouds by Rankin
...the construction trades will not run out of work in your area for awhile.
ReplyDeleteA few months ago when some politician considered the damage to our infrastructure, he said there weren't enough contractors in our state to accomplish all that needed to be done. I think one thing holding up some of the repairs is how they get paid...the various governments (state and federal) are kind of slow to pay out moneys which have been allocated.
DeleteI hope the earth can heal. I can only imagine all the loss from the new budget cuts.
ReplyDeleteInsurance just seems to keep going up, just like everything else.
Take care, have a wonderful day!
True. So many financial problems to have repairs made. I just got my renewal policies for rent and car, shudder! They made sure to let me know I don't have flood insurance. I would guess others have tried to get help from the wind damage, and had to show it wasn't related to the floods. Many people who lost their homes were due to floods however. I hope they had flood insurance, but doubt it.
DeleteI like the skies that you captured. We are having a big dumping of snow. Our driveway was cleared overnight, but it doesn't look like it now.
ReplyDeleteOops...here's some more snow to move around!
DeleteFlora Jane is a small thing , and she fills us with delight for sure!! I often do wonder why we are living- I think living has more to do with helping one another- planting and harvesting, walking- one foot in front of the other to places of beauty and wonder- even if it is just to the mail box. It is all inbetween our ears. We get on with it.Life is in the details.
ReplyDeleteYou had many different thoughts in your comment...I will go with the last one...life is in the details. Mmm, can find lots to enjoy and ponder there!
DeleteNice to hear the post hurricane work is progressing. Interesting about the lack of flood coverage.
ReplyDeleteFlood coverage where it's needed, is costly, of course.
DeleteBeautiful skies captured!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your interest. Have a great weekend.
DeleteThe skies are beautiful. And how nice to have a friend to help you clean! I would love to be able to afford a cleaning lady twice a month; trying to find a way to do that.
ReplyDeleteIt will be years and years before your beautiful region recovers, and will never be the same, of course. One can only hope that at least some things will be better. Such tragedy, and yet how well the communities have pulled together.
I have learned what I only would have imagined others were going through. And then right after our disaster, while we were still recovering, California had awful wildfires in suburban towns. I'm able to save some cash by using lots of the available low cost or free foods that I'm eligible for. Then I can pass it along in ways that help my environment. At one point I wanted to see if I was eligible for a housekeeper through health insurance due to my breathing limitations. There are very few people who have home care, and most of them around here are severely disabled so need nursing care as well. So I didn't pursue that direction to get help. Once a month is all I'll have for total cleaning, at this point. My shelves which were dusted this week were a once a year kind of job, (at least for me) and hadn't been done for many many years!
DeleteDramatic sky.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it is, isn't it!
DeleteNice cloud pictures. I love the stormy looking ones.
ReplyDeleteNice cloudscapes. Happy Valentine's Day!
ReplyDeleteWorth a Thousand Words