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"blue ridge" Discussed on WTOP
"But before Amherst avenue, near E's crest drive, that's where we had reports of that water main break. That's along the far left side of the roadway. Jack Taylor, WTO P traffic. Storm team four is Chad Merrill, I keep seeing a radar and watching that rain moving closer and closer to our area. Yes, the radar is filling in. It will rain in Washington starting at 10 a.m. this morning, so about an hour from now and 40 minutes from now I should say, we do have some snow and sleet where you've ported between Charlottesville and larae, that is going to be moving up the interstate 81 corridor, the main roadways will just remain wet as this initial thump comes through, and then it will change over to rain along the spine of the blue ridge. We will have a couple of areas where we get some snow covered rose, but that'll be the state routes. The main thoroughfares stay wet, and also far northern Maryland Westminster Manchester area while also see a little bit of snow accumulation, probably about a half an inch of snow. This will all change The Rain this afternoon. I do want to let you know though if you are traveling west of Hagerstown, the I 68 corridor is completely snow covered right now, so I would not recommend going west of Hagerstown right now because of the very heavy snow that's going on. That heavy snow axis will stay west of Hagerstown as we go throughout the day. We will be in the mid 40s locally this afternoon dropping back to 40° tonight fog for a time this evening and tonight after the steady rain ends at about 7 or 8 o'clock this evening. Mostly cloudy breezy upper 40s on Thursday, mostly sunny Friday, near 50 and over the weekend, partly cloudy with temperatures in the 50s. 39° at BWI Marshall dulles international and Reagan national airport and 36 right now in Leesburg. Brought to you by Len the plumber trusted same day service 7 days a week. Ahead on WTO is there more clarity with what's going on with Marilyn's 5 29 plan. I'm John doman. 9 21. Each day across
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"blue ridge" Discussed on WTOP
"Springfield up to the 14th street bridge. Old bridge road eastbound in your hedges run drive. You should find authorities on scene of a crash. Jack Taylor TOP traffic. Storm team force Chad Merrill, it looks like a few spots in the western part of the listening area are at or below freezing right now, and that could mean trouble later. That's exactly right. We do see temperatures very close to that freezing mark and those sheltered spots along the spine of the blue ridge and far northern Maryland, the leading edge of The Rain is in Charleston West Virginia and there's some signs north of I 64 and west of I 81 that precipitation will start as a wintry mix over the next hour or so. It will transition all the way up I 81 Harrison burg around 7 30 a.m. and then across much of the listening area between 9 and 10 a.m. again starting out as a little bit of a snow far north and west, rain inside the capitol beltway. We will see that snow to the northwest change terrain, the only travel spots we anticipate skyline drive in the secondary roads near the mason Dixon line and in the higher elevations of the blue ridge, along I 81, the roads will just be wet, even though there will be a period of snow initially before it changes to rain. Temperatures this afternoon in the middle 40s, upper 30s, north and west, The Rain ends tonight, some fog for a brief period of time near 40°, winds pick up Thursday where we are in the upper 40s and then Friday through the weekend. We rise into the 50s, no weather concerns after we get past this particular storm system. 29 and tanning town, one of the spots will initially start out as snow. Myers villa 27, another colder spot that will start out at snow, bluemont, Virginia, starting out at 29° right now. All right, Chad, the weather brought to you by dulles glass for all your glass mirror and shower door needs, visit Delos glass dot com. Dallas glass love your glass. Coming up what to look for at the auto show if you haven't been there yet. It's 5 51. Is your disabled child almost 18? Have you made provisions for their continued care and protection once they become adults
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"blue ridge" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"With the fertilizer we have and if we can produce more, then we can mitigate the impact of Russia's disruption of the fertilizer market Secretary vilsack spoke to ABC. Tropical depression, Nicole continues to move up the east coast. The blue ridge mountains could see as much as 6 inches of rain today. Meanwhile, clean up and damage assessment continues in Florida, an officials in Daytona Beach claim that they have approximately 20 high rise of properties that have been deemed unsafe. The storm is being blamed for two deaths. Ford pierce couple survived a frightening incident when the hurricane made landfall. David snow and his wife, Lisa, live on a 52 foot sailboat. I heard a noise and I looked out the porthole in we were spinning and I knew we had broken loose. Snow says first responders saved their lives. It is Veterans Day in the United States in Europe today is known as Armistice Day. That is when the 1918 agreement to end the First World War went into effect. The vast majority of the battles during that time, taking place on French soil. Today, France marked the commemoration with traditional music, the annual wreath laying, as well as somber moments. Parents and graduates who were banking on President Biden's student loan forgiveness program have been dealt another setback of federal judge in Texas has blocked implementation of the plan. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios, this is global news, 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts. In more than a 120 countries, a Michael Barr, this is Bloomberg. With a Bloomberg business of sports report on Michael Barr. Nike cofounder Phil knight said he expects that the company's relationship with NBA star Kyrie Irving is likely over for good. Night on CNBC says that Irving went too far when he promoted an anti semitic film and then refused to denounce those beliefs leading to his subsequent suspension by his team, the Brooklyn Nets knight said kairi stepped over the line. Nike suspended its relationship with Irving earlier this month and canceled his next sneaker release. College athletic programs on all tears are reacting to inflation, the same way as everyone else. They're looking for ways to save. Travel and food are the primary areas with increased costs. Schools and major conferences are working with boosters and other partners to try to bridge the financial gap. Voters in California rejected an effort by the gaming industry that would have allowed online and phone wagers on sports. With a Bloomberg business of sports report on Michael Barr. Wake up and text text and eat. Text and catch the bus. Text and miss your stop
AP News Radio
Tropical Depression Nicole moves through Georgia
"Nicole is now a tropical depression The storm is moving through Georgia this morning a day after causing havoc in Florida That's where it touched down Thursday as a hurricane and then a tropical storm The national hurricane center says Nicole could dump as much as 6 inches of rain over the blue ridge mountains today and urban flooding is possible as the storm moves into the eastern Ohio valley mid Atlantic and New England through Saturday and Florida most of the damage is along the east coast and the Daytona Beach area Nicole has caused at least two deaths and sent homes along Florida's coast toppling into the Atlantic Ocean I'm Donna water
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Hurricane Nicole forms; Florida awaits rare November storm
"A rare November hurricane will make landfall overnight along Florida's east coast The last November hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. was Kate 37 years ago Hurricane Nicole has top sustained winds of 75 mph as it rolls towards floor disease coast Storm surge beat erosion has already wrecked dozens of homes and buildings Brad Reinhart with the national hurricane center says the surge runs some 370 miles along the coast into southeast Georgia From north Palm Beach to altamaha sound Georgia We're calling for peak storm surge values of three to 5 feet Disney World and universal Orlando closed early Wednesday Airports including Orlando international have closed as much as a half foot of rain from the system could fall along the blue ridge I'm Tim McGuire
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"blue ridge" Discussed on WTOP
"Air purification systems Learn more at silver diner dot com slash safety silver diner eat well Be well Jack Taylor WTO P traffic Okay chuck bell we still do have some clouds hanging around this morning Will we see sunshine sometime today Absolutely we will In fact the sun's already out All you have to do is just go west to dulles airport and his bright sunshine from dulles all the way to the blue ridge clouds are already starting to fill back in in the Shenandoah valley and it has remained a little cloudy here in Washington but the sunshine is on the way but it's not going to last all day We'll get a couple of sunny hours and then the clouds build right back in for the afternoon Those afternoon clouds also have a 20 to 30% chance of a quick little passing rain shower too No severe weather today just to pop up shower Temperatures are in the low 50s now and we're going to stay because of the clouds coming back this afternoon and that gusty northwesterly breeze We're going to stay in the chilly mid 50s today Some 20° lower than yesterday's temperatures For tonight skies will clear Wendell diminished temperatures will fall to the low and mid 30s by Saturday morning so that'll be a cold start but it will be a bright and sunny day tomorrow highs in the upper 50s to near 60 no rain tomorrow but then another pop up rain chance returns to the forecast for Sunday primarily in the first part of the day on Sunday with highs near 60 and then some dry weather to get next week started I'm storm team four meteorologist chuck bell for WTO We've got 49° outside of our studios brought to you by Len the plumber trusted same day service 7 days a week And coming up on WTO A longer wait to see if a Bethesda coach accused of abusing students takes a plea deal I'm Michelle Morello It's 9 21 Hey Becky G can you play your.
Mark Levin
A Free Press Under Assault: Attempts to Silence Newsmax, OANN
"Over at newsmax excuse me over at the news busters our buddy Jeffrey lord of free press under assault attempts to silence newsmax and this is how they operate This is how they work You saw what happened in Canada You saw what happened in big media during the course of our election You saw what Zuckerberg did You saw this guy Elias did You see what the media do And you're not allowed to talk about any of them And it's written speech at cpac former president Trump felt compelled to speak up for one America news Why The Associated Press has headlined this DirecTV drops Trump friendly one America news DirecTV says it plants to drop the right wing TV channel one America news network and then there's the targeting of newsmax another pro Trump conservative TV outlet Atlantic broadband now called breeze line has recently announced it was dropping newsmax So too did hargray cable and blue ridge this comes on top of the news on this subject back there in the ancient times of 2021 Here's the headline from the Washington times Congressional Democrats believe cable providers to drop Fox newsmax and OAN and you might recall we spent a lot of time on this
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2 Virginia college officers killed; suspect in custody
"Two two two two campus campus campus campus police police police police officers officers officers officers are are are are dead dead dead dead in in in in a a a a shooting shooting shooting shooting at at at at a a a a small small small small college college college college in in in in North North North North West West West West Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia and and and and all all all all clear clear clear clear has has has has been been been been sounded sounded sounded sounded in in in in a a a a suspected suspected suspected suspected gunman gunman gunman gunman is is is is in in in in custody custody custody custody after after after after two two two two officers officers officers officers were were were were shot shot shot shot and and and and killed killed killed killed at at at at Bridgewater Bridgewater Bridgewater Bridgewater college college college college a a a a private private private private liberal liberal liberal liberal arts arts arts arts school school school school of of of of about about about about fifteen fifteen fifteen fifteen hundred hundred hundred hundred students students students students west west west west of of of of the the the the Blue Blue Blue Blue Ridge Ridge Ridge Ridge mountains mountains mountains mountains in in in in Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia the the the the school school school school went went went went into into into into lockdown lockdown lockdown lockdown early early early early in in in in the the the the afternoon afternoon afternoon afternoon warning warning warning warning students students students students and and and and faculty faculty faculty faculty about about about about a a a a shooter shooter shooter shooter on on on on campus campus campus campus the the the the college college college college later later later later issued issued issued issued a a a a statement statement statement statement saying saying saying saying police police police police had had had had apprehended apprehended apprehended apprehended a a a a suspect suspect suspect suspect after after after after a a a a search search search search a a a a news news news news photographer photographer photographer photographer at at at at the the the the scene scene scene scene captured captured captured captured a a a a photo photo photo photo of of of of a a a a man man man man laying laying laying laying face face face face down down down down on on on on the the the the ground ground ground ground as as as as more more more more than than than than half half half half a a a a dozen dozen dozen dozen law law law law enforcement enforcement enforcement enforcement officers officers officers officers approached approached approached approached with with with with guns guns guns guns drawn drawn drawn drawn no no no no other other other other injuries injuries injuries injuries were were were were reported reported reported reported in in in in a a a a statement statement statement statement college college college college president president president president David David David David bushman bushman bushman bushman said said said said the the the the campus campus campus campus was was was was mourning mourning mourning mourning the the the the loss loss loss loss of of of of two two two two well well well well known known known known officers officers officers officers killed killed killed killed while while while while protecting protecting protecting protecting others others others others identifying identifying identifying identifying the the the the victims victims victims victims as as as as John John John John painter painter painter painter and and and and campus campus campus campus safety safety safety safety officer officer officer officer J. J. J. J. J. J. J. J. Jefferson Jefferson Jefferson Jefferson the the the the statement statement statement statement noted noted noted noted that that that that painter painter painter painter was was was was the the the the best best best best man man man man at at at at Jefferson's Jefferson's Jefferson's Jefferson's wedding wedding wedding wedding this this this this year year year year I'm I'm I'm I'm Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer king king king king
Mark Levin
Abraham Lincoln Said the Only Thing That Could Destroy Us Is Us
"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us with one blow? Never All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined. With all the treasure of the earth except our own. In their military chests. With Bonaparte for a commander could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge. In a trial of 1000 years. At what point then. Is the approach of danger to be expected. I answer. If it is ever to reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot. We must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men. We live Through all time. Or die by suicide. And he wraps up With The rest of the admonition and you can read that for yourselves. But To sum this up. Abraham Lincoln gave us this morning and he said, this country comes down because we'll take it down ourselves. Mark Levin wrote the book, American Marxism. Because he clearly articulates But that's happened where here doesn't mean the country is Over. It means they've gotten a footing and we can't play games anymore. It is no longer a spectator sport. This is critically important. I think it's it's important that we realize these things again. What Lincoln said. And he said it in 18 38 is so apt
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Was i found this little side trail right beside the parkway. That's not really marked where you can go down. And you're just slightly below the lynn co viaduct. Okay and the viaduct is stretching out before you and grandfather mountain is looming way high above you and to your left is just endless. Rolling hills dotted in colors. That look like fruity pebbles and to me. That was the moment that was just like wow. There's no mistaking this for any other place. This is the blue ridge. Parkway and i think that for me was the moment that i still look at that picture and it's almost like i dreamed it. It wasn't real because it's just such an iconic part of america and interestingly it took them nearly i think fifty years to build the parkway but the last like twenty years of construction was just on that eight mile stretch around grandfather mountain truth true story that section took them the longest for reason but as a result this feat of incredible engineering is now the most iconic place on the parkway for me excellent. I'd have to say you keep mentioning doing this in the fall. Which looks gorgeous from the pictures. I'm seeing. It's a pretty darn beautiful place on over fourth of july weekend to yes. Yes and not as crowded as i expected in a year when so many people are in the national parks. You know what man. It wasn't bad in october. Meet smokey mountain. National park was very busy. There was at least one overlook that we could not get too because there were so many cars but the parkway really wasn't it wasn't bad in october we went during the middle of the week instead of the weekend wasn't bad at all excellent and one thing makes you laugh and say only in the blue ridge parkway traffic coming to a standstill because of cyclists riding up a mountain. That's it. I mean it's just like what are you guys thinking. Yeah no i just crazy but good for them. Excellent and if you had to summarize the blue ridge parkway in three words what three words you get a pick epic road trip excellent excellent and if i wanted to know more about the blue ridge mountains. Is there any sort of travel guide that you might be able to recommend for me. Why yes there. Is chris simply go to. Www blue ridge mountains travel guide. That will that is convenient. Post there that you would direct us to for the blue ridge parkway in particular. I'm not going to give you one post. I'm going to say there's a navigation bar at the top screen and you'll see it says blue ridge parkway click it and go explore because there are so many posts there. There's guides to the overlooks and waterfalls and hiking trails. And blah blah blah blah blah. Just dive in because there's so much and no one post is going to tell you everything you need to know. That's why we created a whole section for excellent. Our guest again has been brent love from the blue ridge mountain travel dot com but also from green global travel dot.
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"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Even further to me. Some of the western most overlooked aren't quite as spectacular as some of the others. But i do think the o'connell lufti river which is the first or last depending on which way you go is worth doing thunderstruck ridge. I remember enjoying the view. And i think jenkins ridge enjoying the view but to me those first or last ones depending on which way you're going are not quite as spectacular as the ones once you get up into the asheville to boone in blowing rock section for me. That's really the juicy meat excellent. We're going to start to wrap this up but before we do. What else do people need to know before they do. The blue ridge My biggest piece of advice for someone driving the blue ridge parkway for the first time is to do a lot of research online because there are a lot of hiking trails. There are a lot of overlooks. There are a lot of waterfalls there lot of attractions. You can possibly do them all so my advice is it's okay if you wanna go and wing it but it's a lot easier to maximize your time if you actually planted out a little bit in advance and we've created on mountains. Travel guide some pretty extensive detailed guides. Not only to individual overlooks in individual places. That are particularly interesting but also just big picture. Like what are the best waterfalls. What are the best hiking trump. What are the best places. You need to see if you're going to do this. Stretch and just planted out. We had spreadsheets in the car as we were going with a checklist of like everything we wanted to see and we would check it off as we went because we knew this was peak autumn. And you do it at peak autumn every single year so it was like we wanna make the most of it and then we go back now and now. We're a little more relaxed and we don't plan as much. We leave a little more room for improvisation. But for that first time i think research and planning what you wanna see can really make it. Maximize your your time. We didn't do as much pre planning as we probably should have. Just busy right up until the point that we were driving but there are so many places you can stop that. You really probably don't have the time to stop everywhere. And so it's useful to know for us. We are also traveling with the dog so it was dogs trails and things. Like you'd have to look what you're what you're doing and my wife has a sore ankle so we were looking at what trails are achievable for us. We don't need the five miles one way uphill trail right now. And that's the thing is when you're on the parkway there's no sign saying trail and it's only one mile and there's not a lot of inclines. They don't say that we didn't say and you might not and you probably won't have a signal right exactly. That's definitely one of those places that maps dot. Me offline maps were very helpful. Yes for sure so it really does because we were going through virginia and we had no clue what was worth doing. What was we stopped. That look like they were five to six miles and we didn't have time for that so planning matt out in advance..
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"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Okay cool. Well actually biggs the question of when we divide this up if you're taking a weekend doing the whole range you're going to spend the night here or to wear your other stops. We talked about stanton for instance israel. Ashville bill gotta spend at least a couple of nights and nashville. So i feel like that was a dumb question Yeah we have a story on our site that has twenty seven waterfalls within forty minutes of asheville seven noteworthy waterfalls. Not little rinky-dink waterfalls noteworthy. There's so much to do in asheville. We've been there five six times now and we go back pretty much every year. So ashville is a much stop for me. The area around banner elk blowing. Rock and boone is a must stop for me one of the places. We haven't spent enough time yet. But i really want to spend more time. It's cherokee north carolina which is weird the parkway basically begins you got great smoky mountains national park you've got the museum of the cherokee indian which is an cultural museum. You got the obama. Gosh i'm going to blow this pronunciation. But i think it's called. Oh kennel lufti visitor center. I've been there and i don't know how to pronounce it. Yes i think that's okay. But you're almost guaranteed to see elk. They are wild l. They've got a living history type attraction with old cabins and houses. They've got a visitor center. That has all sorts of information around about the parkway and the great smoky mountains national park. It's kind of the beginning of it all and it's a place where i would love to go and spend several days so that is an area that i would love to spend more time well at that visitor center because we stopped at the visitor center. We did the hike there along the river down towards the cherokee reservation. There is a lot of people. There are using that river area for floating doing float trips basically in inner tubes and things but the other thing is if you get your national park passport stamped in that visitor center which you all got national park passports right. I assume then you can also get a stamp for the trail of tears because this is considered one of also the visitor's center for one of the branches of the trail of tears which commemorates the rather tragic history of what andrew jackson and the us did to the cherokee in a native americans in the area forcing them off their land and out into indian reservations in oklahoma. Not our brightest our. It's something we talk about a lot on our website because it is important that we acknowledged that this land in the blue ridge mountains this is cherokee land predominantly and especially here in north georgia. Where we live. There's a lot of landmarks to the web tiers. So i think that is what makes cherokee special is that cherokee is the town of the cherokee nation right and go there and actually be able to talk to cherokee people and learn more about their culture and their history and that museum the turkey and in as a great place to start excellent but the other place. I was going to mention that. I forgot to mention before that we spent a couple of nights and i highly recommend is a town called lynnville falls which is near the lynnville gorge wilderness and the lynnville gorge lynnville falls. There's lend bill caverns and the lynnville river which has an amazingly beautiful river with lots of trout and just sue beautiful in the fall..
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"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"That sounds awesome right excellent. Why kind distracted you there. You're heading down into north carolina. Yeah so north carolina when we get down into north carolina. We're getting into the high country and this for me. Is the most spectacular part of the blue ridge. Parkway we're around boone and banner ill in blowing rock three major with major not in terms of sides but major in terms of popularity and and renowned and there is so much to do in that area but two of our favorite things. There's julian price memorial park. Which has the price lake overlook. There's a lot of great trails going around the lake. there's the boon for trail. There's a waterfall. there's so much to do there and the lake itself is just one of the most. I'm a lake person by nature but it's just one of the prettiest lakes i've ever seen and there's a trail that goes around price lake where you're just kind of going through a tunnel of rhododendron. We did it october so they weren't in bloom at the time but it still kinda feels like going through like a railroad tunnel that formed by these massive plants. And then there's little places every so often that you can kind of move over and you're right on the shore of this gorgeous lake. There's kayaking paddle boarding. There's all sorts of things you can do there but really if you have time to do even part of the trail around the lake at this overlook. I highly recommend it. There's also right next door to this. Is moses cone memorial park which is another park that has a lake called bass lake. It has some historical homes that once belonged to this guy who was the denim king of north carolina very wealthy seriously. Yeah i mean. It's like an old style. southern plantation. Lots of history tours that you can do there. We didn't get to spend a few hours there. But it's the kind of place where you could easily spend a day hiking trails again. And both of these are within a few miles of each other but this part of north carolina and the parkway there is so much to do..
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"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"I mean really. you could talk about. All of these overlooks every one of them. Is there for a reason. So it's hard to say. When i did it the first time i stopped it every single every single on of time. I know i know so. Let's keep going south okay. We did the. Brian iger cab. I think those might be the the main ones that i would recommend in virginia so we may want to start moving into north carolina. Now well i would like to ask. Have you made it to the blue ridge music center. That's one we did not make it too but it has. It caught my attention. Yes but we could not go in because they had closed because of covered but we did go around the outside and saw amphitheater where they show the concerts and things like that but we could not go in because of covet. Well the reason i ask is when we're talking about the blue ridge parkway blue ridge is also a style of music that i'm rather fond of an expert in blue ridge music but i do enjoy it and that's what i would to get to in better times absolutely and that area of virginia as well as the northern part of north carolina is one of the epicenters for sibling in the appalachian style and they develop their own. There's a regional style. That is very specific to this small area of virginia north carolina. They do have a fiddler's convention every year. I can look up the date for. But it's very popular to do the blue ridge music center and they do it. And then also. The alta pass orchard in north carolina which is right on the parkway they also have a lot of bluegrass live performances. There and both of them are known for being sort of havens for music in that area. I will let you know. Where is the fiddler says. Here it is old fiddler's convention fiddler's convention..
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"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"The roads not a big road. It's pretty small lane road so it's if you like driving to me i've driven all over the world and it's probably my favorite road i've ever driven. I enjoy driving. It's a good road but it's very windy. The other caution. I would give is as we were right at the northern and just probably up into skyline rather than down in the blue ridge. We were driving in the day as it's getting closer to dusk and i think we saw within the course of half an hour half a dozen different deer in the middle of the road for sure yet. There was one day in virginia where we saw three or four in one day right by the road. Were in the road that speed limit. Is there a reason. And there's not a whole lot of guardrails. Maybe keep your eye on the road and if you wanna look at the scenery ooh look at that. And meanwhile i'm not paying attention to the curves but as long as you take it slow. There's so much to see in so much to do. I can't imagine ever getting bored with the road when you say there's not a lot of guardrails but it's not like say driving highway one in california. Where if there wasn't the guardrail. There's the drop off to the cliff. Typically a lot of vices. It's because of the rounded hills. You're driving the ridge. Line often or just below the ridge line and i don't think i ever felt uncomfortable that oh my gosh. I wish there was a beer guardrail between me and oblivion or something like that. No i don't think that but it's definitely the kind of place where i personally prefer to keep my eyes on the road. More than i would like as a person who likes to look at pretty things all around me and it's tough because we did it last year and peak fall season. You've got these dynamic shades of red orange yellow green on all sides..
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"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Moving south from there. There's a couple of really cool cabins that we like keeping with the history section. There's the puckett cabin. Which if i'm not mistaken is the one that was used by a midwife in the area who was very well known i think her last name was puckett and she apparently delivered more than a thousand babies in this area. So they've kept her cabin. Which i believe is from the early nineteen hundreds. They've kept it there and it's got also the traditional syncing around it and it's really cool and there's another cab and that we really enjoyed called the. I'm not to pronounce this right. But it's spelled like brigger b. r. i in e a r cabin. And it's kind of on the side of this hill overlooking this unbelievable just the classic blue ridge mountains landscape and you say classic blue ridge mountains landscape. We probably talked about that before. Now what is a classic blue ridge. What am i seeing as i'm doing. All these overlooks along this way. Well the blue ridge. Mountains are rolling mill basically but what makes them unique. Is that the leaves on these mountains at a give off. What's the word. I'm looking for the stuff the green stuff pollen. It's funny but no. I'm trying to think of the scientific term but basically as the heat from the sun makes the moisture on the leaves and in the air evaporate they give off a hayes and hayes..
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"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Yeah at the james river trail. It was very interesting to go. Walk over to the old canal locks there you cross over the river on a nice pedestrian bridge. That's built underneath a highway bridge. So you're not dodging the traffic as you do it to the set of locks that was built to make the james river more navigable back in the days before railroads and if you've got any photographers in the audience the james river bridge that you're talking about over the locks that's one of the best places on the blue ridge parkway i've seen photos because the rivers fairly still and the reflections of the sky there in the water just phenomenal accents. Who we're we're about milepost sixty three when we're at the james river trail and anything else we want to do in that first section of things. I section note. I think that's the majority of the things we did. In the first section is the big meadows there or is the in my in the wrong at big meadows is shenandoah park. Okay that's what i couldn't remember. We did the back. Yeah that's where we stayed was the big meadows lodge and there's actually a picnic area near there that also had the appalachian trail running. Right beside gannet was called panorama or something like that cascades. I can't remember so many so many places doesn't make for great audio would we're we're doing a lot of hand wave here but there is speaking cascades. There is the falling water cascades trail at mile eighty three point one that has a national recreation trail. And there's a loop to the view of the cascades which is really cool. We're to next. Well my favorite overlooks in virginia are actually closer to the southern sections. You get past one of the and the otter creek overlooks. There's actually four otter creek overlooks before you get to the otter lake overlook them has places where you can hike along this creek which is about. I don't know maybe it's a pretty wide creates about twenty five feet wide. That got some really nice picture. Bridges that you can go across. It's kind of interesting because there's not a lot of places on the parkway where there are water features right beside the road so this little section which goes from about mile fifty seven point six down to sixty two point five. The water is pretty much right by the road. So i thought that was interesting for me and then as we were discussing before the otter lake which is at sixty three point one. It's another place where the water is right. There i think really offer lake. And the james river are the only two places where you can actually see water from the road as you're driving now honor leak if i've got the right places actually a lodge at otter lake and places to stay there as well not on the one that we were ad. It's a very very small lake. There is some a lodge in that area. But it's not actually on the way it's a very small one okay..
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"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Carolina with shenandoah national park in virginia. Using this amazing four hundred sixty nine mile or so highway. That was really one of the first in my opinion. Truly great conservation initiatives to really preserve the wilderness of eastern united states. In a way that when you go there today and you realize how much development there is outside of this fairly small geographical area. It's really remarkable to just see other than this road that has no real hotels. No real commerce. No real restaurants or gas stations or anything. It's just unspoiled beauty for four hundred and sixty nine miles. How can you not love that too inches it's classic americana and we talk on our blue ridge. Mountains travel guide site. We talk about this idea of rediscovering smalltown america but it's also sort of a glimpse of what america was before the industrial revolution. And all of these things altered the landscape and created. These vast metropolises. Which to me is something. Everybody is craving right now and it just so happens to be the number one unit of the national park service in the united states with fifteen million annual visitors. So feel like it's kind of a popular opinion not an unpopular opinion. A couple of things there clarification so when you say the number one unit you're talking about great smoky mountains national park specifically no no. No no no no no oh was that is what i see as the number one park unit in the us different. That's different. The mountains national park is the number one national park with twelve to thirteen million annual visitors on it because the blue ridge parkway has overseen by the national park service it is actually the most visited unit of the national park service on okay. And then one other clarification. You mentioned connecting. Great smoky mountains with shenandoah national park and there are two roads. They'd come together right if the southern end of shenandoah right. Are you counting the skyline drive in shenandoah national park as part of that mileage when you give the mileage for the net okina even though really. They do connect right. I mean very similar saying road but because they have different names and are operated differently. Yeah they're technically separate but we did. We started at the top of shenandoah in skyline drive and went all the way south and then onto the parkway and i mean. It's really just the same stunning landscape right right. Well the other thing there in terms of giving people some ideas for the scale we're going to talk about places to stop and things to do. But if i just wanted to power through and drive is gonna take me roughly nine hours to drive the blue ridge.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"blue ridge" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Travel guide dot com and bread has come back to the show to talk about the blue ridge parkway brett. Welcome back to the show. Thanks avenue chris always a pleasure and i say welcome back as far as we know. Bread has been once talking about west sweden. But it's possible. He's been on more than that. I've known bread for awhile. So brat what is your connection to the blue ridge parkway back before the pandemic happened my lady. Mary gabby and i who are partners. In green global travel we have decided that we want to move to the mountains and we really started the blue ridge. Mountains travel guide as a way to explore the blue ridge region which stretches of course from north georgia to southern pennsylvania for those who don't know and explore it in search of our next home also learn more about this region as we went and so one of the first things we wanted to do once travel was allowed again was to do a big blue ridge parkway road trip and we did our first one last year and we've since done various sections of it some of them two or three times. Some of them just wants but we have since traveled the entire length of the parkway and just really love it. And i'm planning on going back again in october. Excellent will i think that leads us into. Why should you put it on a map already. So why should someone go to the blue ridge parkway for those who don't know just a little bit of history. Fdr basically came up with the concept of.
Environment: NPR
Why Wildfires Are a Growing Risk
"Miriam and phil harrison moved to higher ground in tate city georgia. After their home in south carolina flooded. They thought it would just be temporary. And then when it came time to go home we didn't fill says the beauty of the place made them want to stay and the remoteness. The tiny community is deep. In the woods of the north georgia mountains homes are hidden up steep curving drives on wooded slopes. It's the closest thing. I'll get to heaven on earth. It really is wonderful but in the fall of two thousand sixteen wildfire came to their piece of heaven while they were still building their house. It was a terrible fire season across the southeast including a fire that killed more than a dozen people in gatlinburg. Tennessee in georgia phil. Miriam were driving on the road out of date city to do errands in town and we noticed on the left hand side a small fire along the road then we noticed two more separated down the road then they saw a fourth fire and a woman trying to put it out growing every minute by the time we came back home they didn't have to evacuate but over a few days the fire spread towards them and around tate city. Miriam says it was frightening. I remember thinking. I just won't get this house finished and and live in any enjoy and certainly not have learned down the harrison. Say they had no idea that wildfire was something they needed to worry about especially moving to the lush green and humid blue ridge mountains but it turns out like tens of millions of americans. They live in what's called the wildland urban interface. It's an area where human development and wild places meet and mix and where wildfire is a big and growing problem right now the wildland urban interface is the fastest growing lands type in the country. Coleco barrett is the lead wildfire researcher at the montana. Think-tank headwaters economics. She says the wildland urban interface has been growing since the nineteen seventies and the pace has picked up as housing costs have skyrocketed and many have looked farther out to find something they could afford
Get Sleepy
"blue ridge" Discussed on Get Sleepy
"Both sides. It's quite a gentle contrast to the steep lines of the mountains the spotted black and my cows nearest the road stop chewing and give you a disinterested luck before resuming. Their munching road turns once more and then loops back on itself up ahead. You see the sign. You've been waiting for in small painted letters. It directs you off the main road and onto a well maintained dirt. Track you bump lightly over the uneven road until you reach small bed and breakfast tucked away in the forest. The main reception area dining room are housed in a lodge with a wide front porch on the second floor rectangular windows overlook the small ci terry that crosses through this back country. You aren't sure which river it leads to. But you're grateful for it's relaxing presence here among the trees your tires crunch as you turn into the gravel parking area. A small sign instructs you to take your keys cabinet near the front door. The host will return in the morning for breakfast. You find your ring of keys on the peg marked cabin six and follow hand-drawn map around the back of the main building their nestled within a cluster of pines. Find your own cozy cabin. Green and white gingham curtains line. Small windows' can hear the sound of rushing water and discover that the brook crosses the property. Right behind your cabin on the back porch. There's a comfortable rocking chair. But the red cushion that looks incredibly welcoming. You use your key to unlock the door and sat you belongings inside. There's a soft bed an armchair and assured bookshelf with light reading waiting for you you cross through the cabin and slide. Open the back door which leads to the porch. The air here is cool and inviting a soft chorus of insects homes in the background but thankfully there aren't any mosquitoes out this evening. You take a seat on the rocking chair and smile as it moves slightly and wait your legs. Find their rhythm. And soon you're rocking gently back and forth and the distance you hear the shuttering of small birds in the trees. The breeze moves through the pines. You hear concert. Needles and the occasional pinecone fall to the ground. The sound of the brook permeates the hair. As does this now adapt river rocks and mosses long as you into a sense of peace and tranquility base where you can sit back. Relax and dream as you wish without the worries or cares of everyday life. The beauty of the blue ridge. Mountains this around gio. Welcome you home. And so you close your eyes and fill your senses at the peacefulness of this place of calm right here. And the north georgia mountains.
Get Sleepy
"blue ridge" Discussed on Get Sleepy
"The considerable incline and string of switchback turns presents a challenge for any traveler no matter the method of transportation.
WTOP
"blue ridge" Discussed on WTOP
"Pepco Mobile APP Now features easy bill Pay energy used tracking and power outage alerts Download the app today I'm Rita Kessler, w T o p traffic and now the storm team for meteorologists Chuck Bell cold air in place this morning, but a westerly breeze will help. Afternoon temperatures recover to a few degrees above average. Today's forecast. I 47 Wins turn to the south tonight and bring clouds and a chance for some rain drops in along with them. Most of the areas east to the Blue Ridge will stay above freezing tonight, but there will be a chance in some of those deep sheltered valleys west of the Blue Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley, where a drizzle dropper to of freezing rain will be possible First thing Friday morning. Friday afternoon, though Southwest winds pushed temperatures into the low fifties, so not expecting an extended period of winter weather threats on Friday, the weekend also looks better now. Most Saturday and Sunday will be dry forties on Saturday afternoon and near 50 on Sunday. I'm storm team for meteorologist Chuck Belfour. W T o p Right now in Washington. We have plenty of sunshine and our temperature of 33 degrees. Brought to you by mattress warehouse by with confidence with a one year price guarantee on Lian Mattress warehouse sleep happens dot com 10 41. Now older residents are supposed to be near the front of the line to get their covert vaccines, But many say it's still a struggle to get registered. And to land that coveted appointment. It was just embarrassing..
AP News Radio
Biden calls transportation nominee Buttigieg 'a new voice'
"President elect Biden is adding a former democratic nomination rival to what he says will be the most diverse cabinet in American history by then had already tapped the first black defense secretary and the first Latina health and Human Services chief now the first ever openly gay nominee to lead the cat a cabinet department choosing thirty eight year old Pete Bridget jazz transportation secretary adding youth to an incoming administration dominated by veteran Washington hands a new voice the new ID is determined to move past politics if confirmed Blue Ridge would be tasked with carrying out Biden's proposals to spend billions on major infrastructure improvements solder mag ani Washington
Eric Harley and Gary McNamara
Arson Investigators Looking Into Fire That Destroyed Collin County Church
"And federal arson Investigators are looking into the case of a church that burned to the ground in Collin County early Friday morning. The fire occurred it Anna United Methodist Church at around one o'clock Friday morning. Multiple fire crews from Melissa McKinney, Westminster, Western and Blue Ridge, healthy in a Fire department put the flames out. There were no injuries reported, but the fire department said the church suffered significant loss. The Collin County Arson Task Force, the Texas State Fire Marshal's office and the A. T F for investigating the cause of the fire.
The John Phillips Show
Los Angeles: Silverado Fire Containment Jumps To 32%, Some Residents Allowed To Return
"Of evacuated Irvine residents in the path of the Silverado fire are back home as firefighters increased containment to 40% evacuations are also over around your Belinda where the Blue Ridge fire is 30% contained. The Blue Ridge fire burning in the Yorba Linda area has charred 14,000, plus acres, destroyed one structure and damage. Seven others. Silverado Fire in the Irvine area has burned just under 14,000 acres. It didn't damage structures, but left two firefighters with 2nd and 3rd degree burns over half their
WTOP 24 Hour News
Firefighters gaining control over Silverado, Blue Ridge fires
"Out of the California wildfires. Calmer weather has allowed Southern California firefighters to beat back to fires that drove about 100,000 people from their homes. Some evacuations have now been lifted. Folks are headed home toe Orange County in southern California to take a look at the damage. Two firefighters who battled one of the blazes is in critical condition after suffering 2nd and 3rd degree burns. The cause of the fires are still under investigation.
Sean Hannity
California wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate Orange County amid strong winds
"Two fires in Orange County have now led the tens of thousands of evacuations, damaging some homes with thousands more still threatened Governor Newsome today talking about the number of fires all over the state. The wildfires that we've experienced some 42 initial starts the last 24 hours meeting 42 wildfires. Had ignited just in the last of 40 rather 24 hours. Silverado Fire has burned more than 11,000 acres with no containment. 70,000. People evacuated Irvine and Tustin. The Blue Ridge fire Now over 15,000 Acres at least 10 homes damaged. Fire, threatening thousands of homes stretching over orange end Sarah Bernadino counties.
Morning Edition
Exploding California wildfires prompt evacuation orders for 100,000
"About 100,000 people in Orange County are under evacuation orders this morning as the region braces for another blast of dangerous weather. That could push two wildfires into residential areas. Forecasters are predicting Santa Ana winds with gusts of up to 50 to 80 MPH at times over much of Southern California, with some the strongest expected in Orange County. Two firefighters were critically injured yesterday fighting the Silverado fired their Irvine and Lake Forest each suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns over much their bodies, according to Orange County Fire chief Brian Fennessy. I was at the hospital shortly after both firefighters were brought to the hospital. They're gravely injured. An investigation is underway to determine how the firefighters were overcome by the flames. Southern California Edison reported to the state's Public Utilities Commission last night. It's investigating whether it's equipment might have started the fire. The utility said a wire that last two telecommunications line to a supporting cable may have struck a high voltage conducting line. Silverado Fire has burned over is 12,000 Acres and is now 5% contained. Irvine Mayor Christina Shay says residents need to be ready to go as soon as they get the word. We're urging everyone to comply with the evacuation orders, please for their safety and safety of our first responders. The winds were so strong that firefighters had to ground their aircraft for much the day they got back up by late yesterday afternoon and work through much the night a second blaze. The Blue Ridge Fire started in Santa Ana Canyon yesterday and has now grown to 8000 acres. That fire near your blend is also is completely uncontained and has forced about 20,000 people to evacuate.
TED Talks Daily
Why we must confront hard historical truths
"Not that long ago I received an invitation to spend a few days at the historic. Of James Madison. James Madison of course was the fourth president of the United States, the father of the constitution, the architect of the bill of rights and as a historian I was really excited. To go to this historic site because I understand and appreciate the power of place. Now, Madison called his estate monpellier and mom Pelia is absolutely beautiful is several thousand acres. Rolling Hills farmland forest with absolutely breathtaking views of the blue. Ridge. Mountains but it's a haunting beauty. because. Montpellier was also a slave labor camp. You see James Madison slave more than one hundred people over the course of his lifetime. And he never a single soul, not even upon his death. The centerpiece of Montpellier is Madison's matching. This is where James Madison grew up. This is where he returned to after his presidency. This is where he eventually died and the centerpiece of Madison's mansion is his library this room on the second floor where Madison conceived and conceptualized the bill of rights when I visited for the first time, the director of Education Christian coats. Cool. Why do took me almost immediately to the library. And it was amazing being able to stand in this place where such an important moment in. American history happened. But then after a little while they're Christian actually took me downstairs to the sellers of the. Mansion. Now in the sellers of the mansion, that's where the enslaved African Americans who manage the House spent most of their time. It's also where they were installing a new exhibition on slavery in America. and. While we were there Christian instructed me to do something I thought it was a little bit strange. He told me to take my hand and place it on the brick walls of the seller and slide it along until I felt these impressions or ridges in the face of the brick. Now Look I was going to be staying on site on his former slave plantation for a couple of days. So I wasn't trying to upset any white people. Because when this was over, I want make sure that I could get out. But as I'm actually sliding my hand along the seller war, I couldn't help but think about my daughters and my youngest one in particular who was only about two or three years old at the time because every time she hot out of our car, she would take her hand and slide it along the outside, which is absolutely disgusting and then. And if I couldn't get to her in time, she would take her fingers and pop them in the mouth which drive. Absolutely crazy. So this is what I'm thinking about what I'm supposed to be a historian. But then, but then I actually do feel these impressions in the brick I feel these ridges in the brick and it takes a second to realize what they are, what they are are tiny handprints. Because all the bricks at James Madison's estate were made by the children that he enslaved. And that's when it hit me. That The library in which. James Madison conceived and conceptualizes the bill of rights rests on a foundation of bricks. Made by the children that he enslaved. And? This. Is. Hard. History. It's hard history because it's difficult to imagine the kind of inhumanity. That leads one to enslave children to make bricks. Your comfort and convenience is hard history because it's hard to talk about the violence of slavery. The beatings, the whippings, the kidnappings, the forced family separations is hard history because it's hard to teach white supremacy. Which is the ideology that justified slavery. And so rather than confront hard history. We tend to avoid it. Now sometimes that means just. Stuff up. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say that states rights was the primary cause of the civil war. That would actually come as a surprise. So the people who fought in the civil war. Sometimes. We try to rationalize hard history. When people visit Montpellier and by people in this instance, white people. When they visit mom appeal your and learn about Madison slaving people. They often ask. But wasn't he a good master? A good master. There is no such thing as a good master. There is only worse and worse her. And sometimes. We just pretend the past didn't happen. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say it's hard to imagine slavery existing outside of the plantation south no, it ain't. Slavery existed in every American colony slavery existed in my home state of New York for fifty years after the American revolution. Why do we do this? Why do we avoid confronting hard history? Literary performer and Educator Reggie. Gibson had the truth of it when he said that our problem as Americans. Is We actually hate history. What we love Is No style.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Thunderstorms possible for Washington, DC area Saturday afternoon
"Now to Storm Team four. Meteorologist Lauren Wreck it. We could have a shower pop up for the rest of your Saturday and maybe a thunderstorm or two. I think the best chance of thunderstorms. We're going along. I 81 that's the only holds about a 30% chance if you are in the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Give about a 20% chance of a thunderstorm, but again, lots of clouds around some areas in our western, seeing a little bit more sun shining will have pops of sun across the areas that are cloudy now loaded mid eighties lingering showers overnight and then tomorrow it's gonna be hot Temperatures around 90 Well more sunshine tomorrow and some more isolated thunderstorms. Tomorrow
WTOP 24 Hour News
Potential Tropical Storm Heading North, Warm Weekend Temperatures In Washington DC
"In your forecast for your Thursday and honestly, the heat, humidity aren't going anywhere any time soon. Statistically, it's our hottest time of the year and boy they forecast is going to live up to that right now. A lot of puffy cumulus clouds outside nothing showing up on storm team for a radar currently already plenty warm. It's 81 in Washington, Gaithersburg, Manassas, Quantico and Baltimore already afternoon hives to be aright at or just above 90 degrees. Also keeping a very close eye on a storm along the North Carolina coast line right now. An 80% chance that it may very well turn into a tropical storm Fay. It'll come across the eastern shore during the day tomorrow and could for some parts of our area, especially along and east of I 95 could deliver quite a bit in the way of some tropical downpours on Friday, could be arriving as early as seven or eight o'clock tomorrow morning and then periods of very heavy rain likely tomorrow afternoon and evening. So if you are beach bound for the weekend If you could make the drive today, that would be advisable, But it's going to be a tough go tomorrow. And beach locations are really gonna have quite a bit of rain starving this and win so I would not recommend getting in the ocean over the weekend, recurrent threat will remain very, very high. So human today. Ah, hi Rain chance tomorrow from Washington eastbound but really is going to be a very sharp cut off to the rain chances. Probably not much of anything in the way of any rain west of the Blue Ridge tomorrow but again. Areas of heavy rain near the bay and into southern Maryland. And out onto that used to ensure the beach is what about the weekend afternoon highs likely to be in the low nineties. Both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday. Those looked like it would come with quite a number of afternoon thunderstorms. Little drier weather on
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
Travel to Asheville, North Carolina
"I'd like to welcome the show music journalist. Bill Kopp who come to talk to us about Asheville North Carolina Bill. Welcome to show. Thanks for having me on to treat. I've learned a lot listening to previous episodes well and I was telling bill before we started recording that I about a week ago had a trip plan to Ashville. That's gotten trumped by some other opportunities. That have come up. But why should someone plan a trip to Asheville? Ashville is really ECLECTIC and Funky. It's it has food. Music Arts Performing Arts something for everyone in Asheville in one of the things that it's really remarkable about it. Is that not a big city? It's got very humid scale. Outside of the day trip. Everything here is either walkable or a few minutes drive. And it's a lot more artistic and cosmopolitan than one might expect of a city nestled in the on the Blue Ridge. Mountains excellent. Well what are you gonNA recommend for us to do? When we come to Asheville North Carolina a one week itinerary for example. I would suggest three days downtown two days on the outskirts and then potentially two or three days worth of day trips because in an hour of here by car. Of course there's a quite a bit of things to see and do that are different from the experience of being in Asheville proper. We started as downtown. What are we going to do downtown? When you're downtown Nashville. My suggestion would be to take as much local color as possible. Try to do and see and do the things that make Ashfield. You need that means skipping stuff that you could do elsewhere like golf and chain restaurant Golfing. We obtain restaurants those great but experiencing those doesn't really play into the things that make Ashville different from any other place will and when you say downtown. I assume we're downtown there amidst the skyscrapers. Not Not really okay. I haven't actually counted but I would say the number of buildings we have their over ten stories. Kp More than a dozen skyscrapers definitely not. It's Not New York City when you're walking down the street and you're in a canyon with giant tall buildings on either side. You could actually walk from one end of downtown to the other assuming you don't stop and there's plenty of reasons to stop in about twenty minutes about a mile across at the most. And what are we doing? Big thing to do here is to park your car and get out and walk around. People Watch dig into our local history which includes figures like Oh henry quote unquote favorite son. Thomas Wolfe Robert moog pretty much the inventor of the Synthesizer Buckminster Fuller Scott Zelda Fitzgerald. All those people have significant parts of their history. Spent living working and creating Nashville. So there's all kinds of things connected with them. Asheville has more art deco architecture per capita than any American city except Miami which is a little unusual the reason it does is because the city was in such dire financial straits after the depression that for many many many years the city was mired in debt and couldn't afford to knock down the old buildings so when things improved. Those buildings were renovated and fix back up. Now we have all these beautiful old buildings that we otherwise have and that you are likely to find in another city our size opinion down to be a little more specific here so if I want to see some of the best of our DECA. Let's say where am I going to start walking? In what direction. GonNa head start at City Hall. Which looks like a wedding cake okay. It's an unusual looking building there. A couple of their buildings right around but it started there and that's pretty much on the east end of downtown and so from there block West towards the mountain manager in every direction Ashville. Is it about twenty two hundred feet above sea level but if you go in any direction where South East or west. You're going to get to mountains in a little bull. If you go west about forty five minutes you drop out of the mountains down into the the Piedmont you drop a good thousand feet elevation. So we're right on the edge of the out range but we are in a valley so we're surrounded by aunts and you say go and People Watch best place in Ashville for people watching a place called Pritchard Park. Which when I moved here twenty years ago was a bus terminal and now it's a city park a triangular park probably nowhere near acres quite small. But it's a great place to people watch. There are permanent. Chess sets set up for people to play on and on Friday nights. One of the most quintessential Ashville things of all the drum circle. I saw pictures of this. Okay good people from every walk of life. Young old doesn't matter what show up. Some of them are serious poly rhythmic percussionist. Others of the May have never hit a drum in their life before. And they all come together and beat the heck drums and it's a communal experience. And it's not one of these sort of things. Where if you walk up with tambourine or a drum that you've just bought or borrowed or something you're not gonna get dirty looks from the local saying who are you. It's a very open welcoming thing and it's like nothing else and it's loud but in a good way and when you say drum circle I. Emily think there's a little bit of a hippy. Culture left Nashville. Am I way off base here? There's more than a little bit. Yes ashville is unique in that. I've been here twenty years and I moved here from Atlanta Bailey because I really wanted to make a lifestyle change. I wanted to get out of the rat race. A little bit and my story is far from unique almost everyone. I know who is a transplant here? Maybe not most of the people but it's quite a few of the people they've moved here because of quality of life issues. They didn't move here because they for some corporation that transfer the here. There's not a lot of work here. It's not that kind of the city so it's very very laid back. It's very Bohemian. And there are a lot a lot a lot of seventy year old hippies. Okay well and you mentioned some of well known people who have lived in Nashville including I think he's mentioned Moga and Henry and Fitzgerald there. Zelda actually died in a fire here in Nashville isn't it? It's not a lovely story. Scott and Zelda spent a good bit of time here and Thomas Wolfe who look homeward angel in fact. His novels are about Ashville. They're classified is fiction but they're really nonfiction. You've changed the names and he pretty much got almost got run out of town because there was a little too much truth in them. Perhaps so yes. We're talking quite a number of years ago. Celebrated novelist and his greatest work is from here. Enough time has gone by all is forgiven. Thomas Wolf House downtown is a popular tourist attraction. I can relate. I grew up in John Steinbeck's hometown who is much more popular. Now that he's dead kept writing about all the wrong people the struggling and up and coming and not the right people so wasn't as popular as my impression in his time.
Environment: NPR
Supreme Court Pipeline Fight Could Disrupt The Appalachian Trail
"We're going to spend the next few minutes talking about Supreme Court case and the group that feels caught between the two sides. If it's ever built the Atlantic coast pipeline would run six hundred miles and carry natural gas from West Virginia North Carolina and Virginia. Between Start Finish is a big physical barrier the Blue Ridge mountains and what has become a potential legal barrier the Appalachian trail environmental groups who oppose the pipeline have challenged the legality of a forest service permanent allowing the pipeline to cross the trail. The people who manage the trails say that challenge took them by surprise and they warn the ruling in favor of those environmental groups could up in the trails complicated management structure. Npr's Becky Sullivan explains Do you want to uh. Let's go this way earlier. This month I came out to the spot on the trail where the Atlantic coast pipeline may one day cross. It's about an hour west of Charlottesville right up on a mountain ridge. The George Washington National Forest. The trail is just a dirt footpath winding through trees. That are all bear because it's February from up here you can see out into the valley to the north. I met Andrew Downes a senior regional director for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. That's the private organization that oversees the day to day management of the trail the coordinates efforts between federal and state agencies and the boots on the groundwork of regional groups and volunteers. So the the orange you think that orange flags are marking this. It's it's about in the right area and I've been out here probably a dozen times as we're walking along the trail. Andrew Downes wants to make one thing clear the Appalachian Trail. Conservancy is not opposed to this pipeline. They don't support it but they also don't oppose that's not to say that there aren't direct impacts from Atlanta 'cause pipeline to the show there are our analysis led us to the conclusion that the scope and range of those impacts did rise to the level requiring opposition for one the pipeline would cross under the trail about seven hundred feet underground it would enter and exit on private land off the national forest. You would see a clear pathway around the pipeline off in the distance and if we were standing in True Wilderness Andrew. Johns says that might be caused for but standing on the trail here. It's not exactly wilderness. We're looking at. The view is already dotted with what he calls impacts houses roads fields all sorts of things cutting through the trees below all the visual impacts that we see for the you know this kind of wilderness experience. The best way to do that is for all those things not to exist in this natural enforced in landscape. But the reality is you know. We're here. The Blue Ridge Parkway here people's homes are here and this is part of the society we live in the Appalachian trail. Conservancy runs on this kind of pragmatism. It's part of the deal when you're coordinating multiple federal and state agencies with the effort of thirty plus regional clubs and thousands of volunteers. The conservancy has been doing this work for almost a century so well before the Appalachian trail was brought under federal management as part of the national trails system in the nineteen sixties. But they were not part of this litigation what happens is is people want to stop a pipeline oftentimes for good reasons and they. WanNa use every tool available To do that. The question before the court centers around who is allowed to grant a permit for pipeline like this on federal land because the pipeline would cross the trail in a national forest the four service granted permits the pipeline company. The Forest Service doesn't have the authority to grant a permit across the National Park and though the trail is managed day today by the Appalachian Trail. Conservancy it is technically a part of the National Park. System Noah Sachs is a professor of environmental law at the University of Richmond. He's been watching this case so if in fact the Appalachian trail is part of the national park system then the Forest Service had no authority to authorize this tunneling underneath it for the Atlantic coast pipeline. That's the argument and environmental group. Used to challenge the Forest Service permit the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed and they revoked the permit. The pipeline company has appealed. So that's really the crux of the issue. That's before the Supreme Court on Monday. The issue of on the ground authority over the Appalachian trail has never been questioned in this way before. Trail officials say this worries them because of the way they manage the trail because it causes so many different kinds of lands federal state parks forest even some privately owned land. The Appalachian trail conservancy has relied on decades of precedent policies and understanding. In order to do its work. It's not that it would all come crashing down tomorrow. But Supreme Court ruling could potentially trigger along bureaucratic process if reexamining and reestablishing many of the policies and procedures that have effectively been in place for more than fifty years and that process could disrupt the trails everyday management needs until her retirement last December Rita. Hennessy was the administrator of the national trail system. That's the office within the park. Service that oversees these types of national trails. The Fourth Circuit's ruling in two thousand eighteen caught her by surprise the fact that it was identifying the Appalachian trail corridor as part of the National Park Service. That's what was most surprising that that's not how we have managed the national trails system for fifty years. And is he told me. She immediately worried about the domino effects when I asked how a Supreme Court decision to uphold might affect the administration of the Appalachian Trail and is he reeled off a series of policies that could be thrown into doubt issues of environmental compliance land-management acquiring lands trail maintenance volunteer use. You get the idea. She'll be watching the arguments Monday with some nervousness because any decision by the Supreme Court could change things for the trail you know having worked with national trails for my whole thirty year career and beyond that it it. It's something that's out there that that is just looming and were not sure how it's going to be decided. The trail conservancy says they are already seen complications. From the case they say the four service recently asked them to put on pause every trail maintenance project they had plans that would take place on national forest land. This summer the forest service declined to comment because of the ongoing litigation. The Southern Environmental Law Center is the Environmental Group leading the litigation in response to trail. Officials concerns attorney. Dj Gherkins says the question before the court is so narrow that it will not affect trail management. No one should worry that the outcome of this case is going to affect the cooperative management that has been part of the Appalachian trails success and should be going forward no matter how the court rules. It's not the end of the road for the Atlantic coast pipeline or for the environmental groups who oppose it. The pipeline company is lobbying Congress for a special permit and Gherkins. Group has won several other challenges to the pipeline. That will still pose obstacles regardless of how this case turns out for the trail. This is the big one Andrew Downes with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. There are a lot of organizations who are focused on protecting the environment Litigating broad focused environmental issues and I applaud those folks but there's only one organization the whole world that's dedicated solely to the Appalachian trail and we have to make sure that our decision process reflects that that level of Focus. Because if it's not us that speak for the trail and only the trail in no one else will oral arguments for the case. Take place Monday. The court is expected to rule this summer becky Sullivan NPR
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