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DinkinFlicka said:
Probably doesn't apply to you but my favorite thing about Waze is when I'm visiting big cities. You can route yourself somewhere to include the fastest way accounting for walking and public transportation simultaneously.
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I quit using Waze when they took cookie monster off.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Yep when i first started using it back in the day it would always ask if I was walking or driving. I heard it was developed by the Israeli IDF originally before it ever went public and came here. Its saved my butt from sitting in a traffic jam for untold hours too many times to count. It will route you thru a residential neighborhood, cutting thru a commercial park, even a big shopping center or parking lot tp get around accidents or standstill traffic. Amazing cooperative app that also tells you when there is a police car, objects in the road, road hazards to watch out for etc...truly awesome. I had to turn off the audio though lmao...I cant listen to someone tell me where to go regardless of who it is. Same as google.
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I think i read Google purchased Waze.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
I think i read Google purchased Waze.
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Think so too. The SW giants have a nasty habit of buying the competition, stripping the best, parts and then slowly destroying the competing field. Adobe and Google seem to be two of the worst. Adobe sells overpriced SW (not necessarily bad SW - just overpriced) and then killing off the competition. One great example was Cool Edit Pro for editing music. Very affordable and maybe even free SW at one point; it was excellent until Adobe got their nasty hands on it. I'll search any length to find something good not sold by companies like Google, Adobe, MS, Apple, etc (or the Chinese). Beginning to look like my next SW is going to be Linux and not Windows 11 - and I want to use my own mind and skills rather than AI. I have a really huge problem when someone tells me "this is how it's going to be."
 
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Willie Nelsons son Luka covers "please don't tell me how the story ends" a short, beautiful song written by a man who was like an uncle to him his whole life. Kris Kristofferson.



This is a beautiful song about a man who knows he will soon lose his lover. I had a fling like this with an amazing beautiful young lady I had secretly had a crush on since 6th grade. She was actually my 1st love, my gf for all of 6th grade... and I could think of little else at many various times in junior high and highschool. I always wanted her but thru HS could never make it happen due to circumstances. I would have a gf when she was single, then she had a bf when I was single etc. She was always the standard by which I measured other girls though, and the one that I really wanted. When she came home for summer break after her freshman year of college, we were finally both single at the same time. I didnt know she was home until a few weeks before school started back up though. Even cellphones were brand new at the time so it was a different world then. We finally crossed paths though and were immediately enraptured. I had a Honda CBR600 motorcycle and picked her up every single night (sometimes middle of the night) as a 19yo kid. For a few weeks she was finally mine again, and beautiful, grown up, and free... with no worries about what the other girls from HS thought etc...but I knew that when school started she would go away to college again and back to her world, and me back to mine. Some of the best times of my entire life, with such a beautiful young woman in every sense. It was bliss for a season, even though i knew it would end. When we were apart as the days got shorter it was bittersweet knowing soon it would end.This song reminds me of her, and of that time. Amazing. Forever remembered, and young.

Edit: this is my EXACT bike except my exhaust was 2 Brothers Racing, and mine had the "tail tidy" kit that gets rid of the black part holding the plate and turn signals at the back. Looks more like the race bikes sans plates. Same year, color scheme everything. Dont have a picture of her sadly lol. She was even prettier than this beautiful machine though.
 

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lawgator1 said:
Posted this in the weather thread, but re-posting here for any input:

Question for anyone who might have knowledge:

I am supposed to go up to Blowing Rock NC weekend of October 11 and meet some family there for a few days. I was going to then drive down the Blueridge Pkwy or to Asheville, then to North Georgia and do some looking for possible future residence when I retire, but that portion of the trip is obviously off.

My concern even with going to Blowing Rock a week from now is that there will no real opportunity to do anything or go anywhere beyond that and that instead the town may well still be sort of a staging area for trucks, supplies, repair crews, and the like, headed to Asheville or thereabouts.

So, considering holding off on the trip and just cancelling reservations, flights, etc. for the moment. Any insights on how things are in the Blowing Rock area for general tourists like we would be?
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Blowing Rock is a few miles from Boone, NC. Have you seen the photos of Boone? Cancel your trip. Think maybe 2 years from now.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Posted this in the weather thread, but re-posting here for any input:

Question for anyone who might have knowledge:

I am supposed to go up to Blowing Rock NC weekend of October 11 and meet some family there for a few days. I was going to then drive down the Blueridge Pkwy or to Asheville, then to North Georgia and do some looking for possible future residence when I retire, but that portion of the trip is obviously off.

My concern even with going to Blowing Rock a week from now is that there will no real opportunity to do anything or go anywhere beyond that and that instead the town may well still be sort of a staging area for trucks, supplies, repair crews, and the like, headed to Asheville or thereabouts.

So, considering holding off on the trip and just cancelling reservations, flights, etc. for the moment. Any insights on how things are in the Blowing Rock area for general tourists like we would be?
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I had friends who took hours to get out of blowing rock in the midst of the storm Thursday.
That was before the worst of it hit.

No chance I’d go there if I weren’t part of the relief effort, with known sources of food and clean water.

I don’t mean this to be a wise guy, but if you are thinking about going there a week from now you do not have a grasp on just how bad things are in those mountains.
 
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Vol423 said:
Blowing Rock is a few miles from Boone, NC. Have you seen the photos of Boone? Cancel your trip. Think maybe 2 years from now.
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Blowing Rock is not as bad as Boone, but it is close a little higher up on the mountain. As you all may know we usually build roads in the mountains beside a creek or river, path of least resistance already carved out. Lots of creeks and rivers through those areas
 
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Ritzwatch said:
I had friends who took hours to get out of blowing rock in the midst of the storm Thursday.
That was before the worst of it hit.

No chance I’d go there if I weren’t part of the relief effort, with known sources of food and clean water.

I don’t mean this to be a wise guy, but if you are thinking about going there a week from now you do not have a grasp on just how bad things are in those mountains.
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We cancelled yesterday actually. And advice from folks on the board definitely helped make the decision, which I appreciate.
 
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Ritzwatch said:
I had friends who took hours to get out of blowing rock in the midst of the storm Thursday.
That was before the worst of it hit.

No chance I’d go there if I weren’t part of the relief effort, with known sources of food and clean water.

I don’t mean this to be a wise guy, but if you are thinking about going there a week from now you do not have a grasp on just how bad things are in those mountains.
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Yeah not a good idea to travel to any of these area for anything. I have family from stoney creek, Hampton, roan mountain, Boone, and Linville. They are all safe but supplies are scarce. There are still 2 areas i know of that are completely cut off by road, Elk Mills off of 321 on the way to Boone and Bumpus Cove off of hwy 81.
 
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hog88 said:
So it’s drizzling rain which makes a good day to sit on the balcony and watch the people at the pool. A woman literally walks out of the pool gets her stuff and pops open an umbrella to walk out of the pool area.
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Never try to understand women. You'll only hurt your brain; and should you succeed, you'll never be normal again.
 
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