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      “It's 250 miles inland! What do you mean it was hit by a hurricane?”
                                        
I've always thought of Brevard [1] as a place safe from natural disasters,
nestled as it is in the Appalachian Mountains [2]. It's not along a fault
line so no earthquakes … oh wait a second … there is a fault line nearby [3].
But still, it's too far inland for anything horrible like a hurricane to
worry about … oh … wait a second … Hurricane Helene is causing issues in the
area [4].

Perhaps it's not as safe from natural disasters as I once thought it was.

Sigh.

[1] http://brevardnc.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/01/07.1
[4] https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/news/sheriff-could-be-2-weeks-until-power-restored-in-transylvania-county/article_0b277174-7e73-11ef-b1e0-7379b64b484a.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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