A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry (Spruce Pine,NC)

Third time. Must be true.

“This could be very, very bad, in the long term.”

Companies have reserves to meet short term needs.

Long term the mines, factories and railroads will be back up running.

Hey, Brian!

Where have you been hiding out?

Long term the mines, factories and railroads will be back up running.

As long as the never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste control-freak Dims allow them.

Busy. Caregiver for my mom for 8 years, retiring later this month. Trying to put the pieces back together.

If they don’t depend on the government, they can rebound in a flash. Fix the roads, fix the power grid, fix the communication network, and things will burst to life.

In about a year...yes. I grew up near there...been to Spruce Pines. The way in is not simple and the repair work will be hard...at least to the roads and rail line.

It mentions rail damage, but it's not like trains are the sole way to move goods. Years ago I recall when heavy flooding hit the same region, and took out all the bridges along about 200 miles of some river. My company (auto supplier) had a factory in one town where most of the population lived on the other side of the river, and there was no way in or out of town with the bridges out.

So the company hired a bunch of helicopters to ferry people to work and back (many living out of emergency shelters as they'd lost housing). And the helicopters were used to ferry parts to the Honda plant they supplied. For a supplier, shutting down an auto plant is a huge deal due to the costs involved (and often the automaker will try to charge the cost of the shutdown to the supplier at fault), not to mention idling the assembly lines of hundreds of other suppliers to that automaker. In this case there was a brief shutdown, but Honda actually commmended us for our efforts to keep them supplied under the very difficult conditions.

So yeah, if the trains can't run and the pipeline runs dry enough, expect similar efforts to get the quartz out. People aren't going to just wring their hands and sit around wailing.

They had better not expect any help from FEMA.

Everyone in the administration knows that the Appalachian region is just a hot-bed of Deplorables!

The area is teeming with the democrats NUMBER ONE ENEMY! - Independent minded, self reliant, conservative voting, GOD loving, patriotic, honest Americans.

I mean - it’s not like they were corrupt Ukrainian officials willing to hand over a big chunk of aid money as cash under the table to line the pockets of Biden, Harris, Pelosi
and their dingleberry butt kissers.

Hang in there!

Good to see you around again!    

From all indications, Sibelco is well prepared with reserves of Iota 8 and being a very private and secretive company you’ll never hear anything more.

The whole region is a mess. I have friends in Weaverville.

Friends in Augusta still without power. The managed to text out yesterday.

“Everyone in the administration knows that the Appalachian region is just a hot-bed of Deplorables!”

Asheville is ANTIFA headquarters

Dasting. of all places...