Hey guys and welcome to an episode of Normally,

this show with normalish takes for when the news gets weird

and it's always weird.

I'm Mary Catherine Ham.

And I'm Carol Markowitz.

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Lovely to have you Normies with us today.

We're getting into some news, tough news immediately today from my home state actually.

I grew up in North Carolina and Hurricane Helene dumped so much water on the state of North Carolina,

particularly Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, that the flooding and

dam issues and mudslides flooding and

the mudslides are absolutely biblical in just the devastation happening there.

Terrible.

And it has, for several factors, which we can discuss,

it's not gotten a ton of coverage on national sort of,

at least TV news for sure some print coverage but just some stats about what it looks like there

dozens of counties are in a state of emergency a friend of mine checked the court system today, just to give you an idea in 22 counties just don't have court for the foreseeable future because no facilities can be reached and nothing can be done.

There are entire communities west of Asheville, which is the city you will hear a lot about because

it's the medium-sized city that's affected by this, but there are tons of communities

west of that that are completely isolated. We're talking no roads in, no

communication, no internet, no

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