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− | + | The back nine is a much better challenge than the front. It starts with yet another great par five, and like the two long holes on the front, is virtually unreachable in two. Every step of the way, accuracy is required on this hole, first with a fairway metal or long iron through a window that stays short of a creek, then another long shot that avoids a watery grave that lines the entire right side of the fairway. We played this one like we knew what we were doing, with Hansard rolling a ten-footer for birdie while I wasn't disappointed with a par.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My family and I have been affected by these dangerous thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. We are well over our needed annual rainfall in Asheville, NC, and every drop of rain seems to make matters worse. I got up early this past Sunday, September 20, and got ready to leave for work. When I opened my back door, the yard was flooded in about 3 inches of rain. I live very close to the Swannanoa River and it had flooded over into the roads and into our yard.<br /><br />Highway 64 runs east and west and is the easiest way to get from Chattanooga, TN to Murphy, Hayesville and the Casino in Cherokee, NC. Crews are not only blasting rock and removing it from the site, they are trying to stabilize the mountain, "trying" is the operative word. The folks who live in Ducktown and Copper Hill, TN are basically cut off from civilization. The small towns are now ghost towns, but that is a future Olympic event and is still in the planning stages.<br /><br />All day, every day. Every time you're on the road, every time you take your car into the shop, every time you step onto a car dealer's lot, you're taking an action that could affect your insurance-and, by default, how construction-proof those auto insurance happen to be.<br /><br />Yet another easily accessible shore dive, the traffic pile is as it sounds, a pile of cars dropped atop a healthy reef. Dive down about 60-90 feet and find and take the opportunity to pose with your favorite models of cars from the 1960's. Even though the current is light in this area, this dive is recommended for advanced divers only due to the depth of the dive site.<br /><br />This is a strange one to explain. We don't have anything that resembles sleds around here. We have cheered for folks going down their big hills using their dish pans, trash can lids, old road signs, and parts of a still. The problem is a lot of these competitors don't realize you can't sled unless there is snow. It doesn't work on dry blacktop. That's ok, EMS is on call every other day, they get there eventually.<br /><br />Being [http://sanxuatsoda.ltd/ http://sanxuatsoda.ltd/] -bird that I am, I was up at 7:30 a.m. I took a peek out of the black-out drapes to see it had stopped snowing. However, there was about a foot of snow on the ground and the roads weren't plowed yet. I had no idea what awaited us. I grabbed a book for reading and Heather's cell phone to make calls--I wanted to let the girls sleep a couple more hours. I would definitely need my morning time today--my "alone" time, as I affectionately refer to it. There was still half a trip to make. |
Revision as of 09:09, 21 February 2020
The back nine is a much better challenge than the front. It starts with yet another great par five, and like the two long holes on the front, is virtually unreachable in two. Every step of the way, accuracy is required on this hole, first with a fairway metal or long iron through a window that stays short of a creek, then another long shot that avoids a watery grave that lines the entire right side of the fairway. We played this one like we knew what we were doing, with Hansard rolling a ten-footer for birdie while I wasn't disappointed with a par.
My family and I have been affected by these dangerous thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. We are well over our needed annual rainfall in Asheville, NC, and every drop of rain seems to make matters worse. I got up early this past Sunday, September 20, and got ready to leave for work. When I opened my back door, the yard was flooded in about 3 inches of rain. I live very close to the Swannanoa River and it had flooded over into the roads and into our yard.
Highway 64 runs east and west and is the easiest way to get from Chattanooga, TN to Murphy, Hayesville and the Casino in Cherokee, NC. Crews are not only blasting rock and removing it from the site, they are trying to stabilize the mountain, "trying" is the operative word. The folks who live in Ducktown and Copper Hill, TN are basically cut off from civilization. The small towns are now ghost towns, but that is a future Olympic event and is still in the planning stages.
All day, every day. Every time you're on the road, every time you take your car into the shop, every time you step onto a car dealer's lot, you're taking an action that could affect your insurance-and, by default, how construction-proof those auto insurance happen to be.
Yet another easily accessible shore dive, the traffic pile is as it sounds, a pile of cars dropped atop a healthy reef. Dive down about 60-90 feet and find and take the opportunity to pose with your favorite models of cars from the 1960's. Even though the current is light in this area, this dive is recommended for advanced divers only due to the depth of the dive site.
This is a strange one to explain. We don't have anything that resembles sleds around here. We have cheered for folks going down their big hills using their dish pans, trash can lids, old road signs, and parts of a still. The problem is a lot of these competitors don't realize you can't sled unless there is snow. It doesn't work on dry blacktop. That's ok, EMS is on call every other day, they get there eventually.
Being http://sanxuatsoda.ltd/ -bird that I am, I was up at 7:30 a.m. I took a peek out of the black-out drapes to see it had stopped snowing. However, there was about a foot of snow on the ground and the roads weren't plowed yet. I had no idea what awaited us. I grabbed a book for reading and Heather's cell phone to make calls--I wanted to let the girls sleep a couple more hours. I would definitely need my morning time today--my "alone" time, as I affectionately refer to it. There was still half a trip to make.