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On Helene's approach here I was selfishly hoping things we be a bit worse around my area, just so they'd call off work and I wouldn't have to go. When we woke up on Friday morning and not much was amiss, I'll admit I was pretty bummed. At the time I wasn't sure of how much damage was incoming during that day for other places. Hurricanes tend to have most of their worst weather effects on their east side, and the Atlanta area basically had Helene pass just over us and perhaps slightly to the east, so despite the proximity not too much occurred in my area. I did hear downtown had some flooding issues due to drainage, but the metro area in general was intact.

After seeing what happened to other places though, I feel bad about being selfish enough to hope for something bad enough just to prevent me from going to work. The endless grind of a job might suck, but entire places destroyed and people dying is obviously a lot worse since there's no going back from that. When I was a kid, we spent almost every summer visiting Chimney Rock in NC. I was really shocked to see what happened to it; the entire town completely destroyed and wiped off the map basically. The area held a lot of sentiment for me, and to see the pictures of it now is really heartbreaking.