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I had no idea how bad it was until finding out that my friends in Asheville haven't been in contact with anyone since 7:30AM.

We suspect they are ok and we know that my best friend is out with the search and rescue crew in the area, but his wife is at home with a small baby without power and hopefully with enough supplies to make it through. But the whole area in Western NC looks awful and we have no idea how long before they can even be reached. I've tried to collect as much as I can quickly for what's going on.

Blowing Rock and Boone, NC have been hit seriously bad, we literally go there every year, its one of our favorite places in the world.

Chimney Rock has been essentially wiped out and there is still danger of the Lure Lake dam breaking, but so far it seems to have held even though the water is flowing over it. I haven't heard anything new from that and hopefully the biggest danger is past now.

My friend's parents are trapped in Black Mountain, NC (not far from Asheville) but we've gotten word from them they the road has been destroyed and they are trying to figure out how to get to my friend's wife and get out, but it seems there are no roads accessible. It's all just an asstounding mess.

A lot of these places literally have just one or two roads in and out of them, and it seems like main accesses all over the place have just been decimated. Praying for these guys.

There is a gofundme that is specifically regarding efforts in Boone for anyone who wants to donate. If you zap these posts I'll pay it forward to them if you want to use sats.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-our-group-of-five-family?attribution_id=sl:27c6e1cf-9175-47ae-8813-e9b8d62202fb&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_ft&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

These are images and video from Asheville:

https://v.nostr.build/rAfJzec2eIpHuVbl.mp4

https://v.nostr.build/jyZmxtbW1y1YyDhq.mp4

Wow I had no idea. Stay safe thoughts are with everyone there

Great to have you here! Looking forward to more music being shared across the community ✌🏽

Hello there! Welcome to NOSTR ✌🏽

Yeah relatively, this shot is facing south. You can still see it vaguely around towns but the darker showers the better. Some I’ve seen at sea have been incredible

Would love for this print to go to the Nostr fam! nostr:note1q606vwnsg237nkj85h06qaghc5dahxd8vxqqwue97vwc0dzz4musmjw9g5

Thanks mate. My go to settings for these shots are ISO3200, f2.8, 25 second exposure on a tripod. This was on the 24-70mm lens at 24mm on a Sony A7R2 which has pretty good low light performance. Any longer than 25sec at 24mm and you start to get star trails from the earth spinning. I love playing around with these shots as you never know what you’re going to get!

For me it’s the interplay of subject, light and timing to communicate a moment and feeling. Hard to describe but you know it when you see it nostr:note126zfc4kaxqkm5seswdkx3rxfjqt726galvyqa3p4z74qeaug4z4se67ag3

Photography is a mode of seeing that can shift your perspective on things, you begin seeing the world through a different lens 📸 nostr:note1g6p0g9zd6yre66afsxzu8ey04le875q6upz2wdyqvdpmrgr9n9xs5wd7nx