Originally posted by St Udio
reply to post by ElectricUniverse
its hard to believe that the southern appalachians (including the brown-mountain lights in NC)
will be spared...maybe the interpetation involves the few, rare, Yokums that live hermit lives
out there in the remote valleys of Appalachia, where no TVs or Rural mail even exists...
that neolithic condition could then be said to have been 'spared'
I was just recently thinking back to where I lived with my sister.
spring creek valley, north carolina. Trust, north carolina, to be exact. population was two, her and I.
the only way in or out was over either three 3800 foot high passes, or up that 1500 foot high canyon wall.
She could not get even one tv sation. 1982.
I recently downloaded several topo maps from that area and on one of the maps, last updated maybe 20 years ago, I found a whole valley of a church and
about 8 houses at about 3000 feet with only trails in or out and through steep climbs, a region 15 X 15 miles with only a few houses and trails for
roads.
probably a dirt road up there by now wih satillite dishes and a pickup truck in the driveway. but still high up and isolated
problem is....
with places like this, I fear that when the S... hits the fan, 20,000 survivalists will descend upon places like this!
there is only slim pickings as it is, now, for these mountain people and they really do not like outsiders much!
my sister moved away as she could not function well with her IQ of 140 and a social work master's degree, there.
and if you DID move to such a place, will be be a solution or a problem, to these people and to yourselves?
[400 city people trying to get the six local farmers to take them in, the very people these city people once called "hillbillies"! ]
no cell phones, no tv, not even a trusty jacknife, and worse, no knowledge of how to live
in the mountains.
freestone
