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🇺🇸 The flooding in North Carolina has a potential to throw the semiconductor and tech markets into chaos!
The town of Spruce Pine is stranded as the major roads linking it to the rest of North Carolina and the US are flooded. The Spruce Pine Mining District in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina, produces mica, kaolin, quartz and feldspar.Spruce Pine district is one of the largest suppliers of high-purity quartz, which is used in the manufacture of silicon for integrated circuits.
The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers.
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What surprises me. Is just how absolutely flat footed everyone was caught. Even though it probably shouldn’t be all that surprising
And in just how bad a shape the internal infrastructure in the area was. Dams collapsed one after another. Levys failed. Bridges washed out. Entire stretches of Highway washed out. Power stations and other civil infrastructure are out of commission. Though I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising. The Appalachians aren’t heavily developed with infrastructure there trending to the older side of things.
Last I saw solid numbers they were saying 1000 still missing. 64 dead.
Though that could be even larger. With God knows how many rural Ranches, Farms, and Private Properties. That’ll be days or weeks before people remember there were even supposed to be properties there if there were no family out of state to check on the owners.
That’s not even factoring in the Businesses and Factories that are just gone. Insurance can only go so far. It’ll probably be cheaper for many of the small companies to take the payout and close rather than try and rebuild.
They’ll be feeling the effects for decades to come.
Also a lot of the area won’t have water service for weeks. Son and his girlfriend are going to attempt to get to our house in western Virginia tomorrow. They happen to have access to a clean stream they are using for drinking water right now.
They got a much more direct hit than what was predicted. No one was expecting it to be that bad. I grew up in E TN and spent a lot of time in W NC growing up. The infrastructure is pretty bad. I-40 has always had tons of problems so no surprise it washed out. Dams are old. I worry about how many bodies they're going to find once the waters recede. There should have been evacuations, but again, the storm was "predicted" to go further west and the forecasts weren't updated until the storm was already there. They knew there was going to be flooding, but they got much more rain and wind than they were "supposed" to.
I checked the Augusta (GA) and Greenville (SC) subreddits just after the storm and found day-old posts laughing off the storm, with everybody saying "nah, it's gonna hit Atlanta, we'll be fine." Greenville lost 100% power and has no water for at least a week. Augusta was slammed with the eye. Nobody was expecting this because they weren't really warned it was heading toward them, even when radar showed it clearly was.
CBS (MSM) is now reporting 100 dead.