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   Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 00:53:02 JST Kim Perales

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   "The world's largest climate & weather data archive is located in Asheville, NC.

   Due to an historic climate disaster, its currently offline.

   The French Broad River near Asheville peaked at 24.67 ft Sat."
   -M Thomas

   TVA has advised that they'll increase their water release starting at 8 am Sun, causing the French Broad River below the dam to continue rising🚨. This is a dynamic situation, & evacuations will contin-.

   #ClimateChange #Flood #VoteBlueDownBallot #HarrisWalz https://www.themountainpress.com/news/evacuations-along-french-broad-continue-sunday-morning/article_f8e4ab10-7e6a-11ef-910c-2356dbc9cc73.html

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     Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 00:53:03 JST Kim Perales

     “If you think you're safe from #climatechange, consider that Asheville, NC -a city nearly 300 miles from the nearest coastline at an elev. of 2,134 ft just got wiped out by a hurricane.”
     -B Friedman

     “The moisture transport into the NC mtns was equivalent to most extreme atmospheric river you'd see on the W Coast X 3.”
     -R Maie

     Asheville: a pop. of. ~100K, & many areas are devastated. We must care for the victims, & amplify & use this disaster as evidence to vigorously tackle the #climatecrisis.

     Bill repeated this.