Posting from near West Jefferson.
Well, coulda sat around and listened to the end of the legislative session, but I had one of those rare opportunities to crawl around through a rhododendren hell with a couple of botanists in search of rare plants populations in a soggy, thick mountain bog. The official description of where I [...]
Wunderground, National Weather Service and weather geeks all-round are keeping an eye on what’s left of a system off the East Coast and what may happen to it. Two lows with T-storms and the like are in the area.
From the NHC:
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1130 AM EDT MON JUL 17 2006
FOR THE [...]
Watching the trout race at Great the Smoky Mountain Trout Festival in wonderful Maggie Valley.
We’ve got quite a trout heritage here in the Old North State and some fine remaining streams. But those TVA and Ohio Valley smokestacks keep cranking out the acid rain-causing hydrocarbons and people keep building right up on the buffers. Then [...]
These photos are from a recent visit to the Cape Lookout National Seashore. They were taken along the path behind the park ranger station at the tip of Harkers. Worth a visit—especially at low tide when you can really see the salt marsh bottom from a walkway that extends a couple of hundred feet into [...]
Update (noon): What remains of the core of Alberto is crossing into the heart of the Piedmont. Most of the NC mid section has had 1.5 to 2 inches of rain since early this morning. Winds do not seem too bad but with the ground this soggy it doesn’t take as much to topple a [...]
Here’s the article in the Indy that came out of the trips Down East.
High tide on the sound side
Waterfront property. No zoning or impact fees. Low taxes. Must sell. It’s not hard to understand why the Inner Banks are booming. How they’ll grow is harder to figure.
By Kirk Ross
You don’t have to tell Carolyn Mason [...]
Got in Captain Dennis Chadwick’s trusty old number and headed out with Coastkeeper Frank Tursi last week for a tour of Core Sound and to meet up with crabber Eddie Willis. The sound is still the cleanest of our coastal waters but it is threatened by upstream stormwater runoff and will surely be affected by [...]