This is Alaska and British Columbia as of yesterday.

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Tennessee is even worse.

64 dead. There are people missing (click here). Someone better be checking dams.

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(Click here) The people don’t need confidence, they need vigilance. Those dams are under stress. The land has given way with collapsed roads and quite possibly land and rock slides. That kind of sediment deposited changes the capacity before the banks are under stress.

Isolated folks are going to need food and medicine drops. 

What is the temperature like in the Smokies? People will need clothes and blankets and heaters of some sort. Temperatures may be different at elevation.

Looks like temperatures are steady in the sixties but there is more rain coming.

WATCH THOSE DAMS. Thank you.

The Army Corp can advise, but, speaking in generalities it has been a hot dry summer. The land has experienced some drought. Droughted land is less stable when exposed to huge storms like this. I-40 is not an isolated incident. Vermont and California has experienced major road collapse. The land is different because the climate is different. 

Helene stalled over western North Carolina

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These are rain totals in a three day span. I-40 is washed out. It looks like Governor Cooper is worried (click here). There are currently 30 people dead in Buncombe County (click here). That is where Asheville and the home of the Vanderbilt estate lies.

I am sure the emergency workers were overwhelmed during the storm and a major highway collapse isolated people from responders.

Jon Tester for Montana

Has he ever been anyone else besides a farmer and the best man to represent Montana in the U.S. Senate?

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Look, I have been reading about his opponent for this race and he’s from Minnesota. He has a business in Montana so I guess he spends enough time to qualify as a candidate, but, I have a problem with his good friend. Sorry, but, the friendship sounds like corruption to me.

Senator Tester is too much of a gentleman to even bring it up, but, I don’t have a problem with that because I am worried about Big Sky Country, conservation and public lands. 

Remember this lousy SOB?

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Ryan Zinke. How the heck did he get back into government as a U.S. House Rep anyway?

Mr. Zinke took care of himself while Secretary of the Interior and while in the U.S. House he has been taking care of the opponent in this race for US Senator. Has anyone stopped to realize what a tag team they are going to be to assault our public lands?

What’s his name? Tim? Sheehy? Right? Tim Sheehy? 

He’s got lots of money. There is some discussion about the viability of his business though.

But, there is a direct link between his business in Montana and legislation passed to benefit it by Ryan Zinke. Isn’t that right, Tim?

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I don’t know what the costs of fighting fires in Tribal areas are like, but, without real research or facts to justify this language in a bill that brought millions rolling into Montana, that is pure unadulterated corruption to benefit Tim who has poured lots of contributions into the Republican Party.

Tim is having a problem defining his position on climate. Why? MAGA. It seems as though when he discusses fires and his business he directly talks about how vital his business is to the climate. I am not going to get into that, but, his campaign seems to have the opposite message.

If the people of the USA are still having problems validating any concern for the climate crisis after witnessing the ravages of the hurricane that has devastated the infrastructure of the Southeast then I don’t know what will prove to them what a climate crisis is.

Senator Jon Tester is an honest man with excellent intentions for Montana and that is a fact by all his work for all Montanans. He is steadfast and isn’t corrupt.

And for crying’ out loud get rid of Zinke. He is known to be trouble. I don’t know what he has up his sleeve but he sent a lot of money to Montana to be sure he goes back to the US House.

The public has a right to know.

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The Attorney General should file a motion in support of Jack Smith’s request for public knowledge of the grand jury findings. It is obvious he afraid for this country. Perhaps the public needs to file a Freedom of Information Act request along with Jack Smith. If there terrible news in those reports it is important there is no error in judgement by the people of this democracy.

The FBI Director had no problems with disclosure in the closing months of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, why is there hesitation now?