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 This is from Black Mountain, NC. This is where my friend's parents are stuck. For anyone who has been up there before, apparently Blue Ridge Rd has been completely covered by the Swannanoa River - I don't know if the road is still there.

https://v.nostr.build/1BPi6lpG4KHhIW14.mp4 
 Need those Chinese mobile hydro miners. Golden opportunity! 
 Would be a truly wild way to raise money for disaster areas actually. Have a disaster team with a “instant launch” communication node and a Ubiquiti with 5KM reach. Throw it up on a 20Ft extension pole, drop the mobile hydro unit somewhere and start mining while providing excess power for people to charge phones, and launch an open WiFi or maybe even just a cell repeater on the network. Legit could save dozens of lives with a setup like that, if it could be quickly deployed. 
 That's a great idea. Position them ahead of time based on weather forecasts. Maybe you could put a topographical map into an AI and have it spit out the best locations for the setup. Open source the whole thing so plebs can convert their home stack into a hydro miner hotspot. And... These disasters could actually be fun 
 “Fun” is a stretch but it could certainly make a potentially critical difference in disaster response. 
 anyone?
#weatherupdate #hurricane #helene #nc 
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