the hurricane came very close but didn’t hit us. It veered east and instead devastated a large swath of the smoky mountain area including Franklin, Dillsboro, Sylva, Asheville, Boone and a number other towns we love and cherish. Steph wasn’t able to reach her folks for days. Our rental on Bidwell street took on a lot of water (again) and we had literally just replaced the carpet downstairs. Anyway, count ourselves lucky. The projections had it going straight thru Atlanta and we were planning for the worst.