re: Gatlinburg, TN suffers severe wildfire damage; 13 people confirmed dead

That's not far from me but I am not familiar with that specific location. The entire area has been effected.

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Is that just in TN? I know two were caught on the NC side

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Yes, the guy I posted started fires North of Chattanooga. The older guy started one near the Nantahala. I hope they catch every single one of them and hang em up over a slow roasting fire.

She's very odd. My husband, who's far more diplomatic than me right now, tried to speak sense into her regarding the danger the smoke posed for myself and toddler. She gaslighted (punny) us to no end--going on and on about how amazing the weather was there-- and tried to make us the bad guys.

Website is NCmountains.net, name is Kathy.

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Some heavy rainfall should be there soon. Unfortunately high winds will come first.

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Knoxville, TX only picked up 0.06" of rain and the band has deteriorated as it moved east. Probably very little impact on the fires but might bring a wind shift.



Unfortunately, it doesn't look like much rain behind this for the area:

Correct. I wouldn't care if I wasn't pregnant, and didn't have my three year old tagging along. But bringing him to a place where we might be forced to stay indoors the entire time is ridiculous. I can do that in the comfort/insanity of my own home

You're not wrong. The realtors here are some of the lowest level scum I have ever had to unfortunately deal with. They constantly try and take advantage of people. Especially those they know are not from the area. They are ALL from F-ing Florida. They come here, complain constantly about the shite hole they left in Florida and then pettiton the city council to enact statutes to make this area like the shithole they left. I would threaten her with litigation.

Thank you for sharing. I will do one better: I'll let the autistic army of the OT deal with her. That would be far more debilitating than litigation.

And I could totally see her being from FL. She was extremely flighty, and she doesn't "do" the whole logic/reason thing.

We were to arrive on Friday, the 25th and stay until Thursday, dec 1.

I learned of the fires and contacted everyone I knew in the area, and parks/recreation people to gather info on Nov 14. Then ran it by my OB, he said that going was out of the question. We asked her about rescheduling, refund.. Anything. She said she would have to rebook our dates in order to allow us to reschedule. And that a refund was out of the question. When we explained this was obviously an extenuating circumstance, she said we should've purchased trip insurance.

Wow. No one could have predicted the fires. That's unbelievable. I am going to stir some trouble and call her tomorrow.





Actually, I think everyone should call and schedule one week after the other and then hang up when she asks for payment. Using fake names of course. Dibs on Ed Orgeron. My friends call me Yaw Yaw.