Last night in WNC was a bit unusual. No damage, of course, our mountains sheltered us from anything bad. But it was WINDY -- far more so than was the case during Floyd. I would guess that between 8-11pm we were getting a fairly steady, brisk breeze in the 10-15 mph range, with periodic strong gusts into the 20-30 mph range. We don't often get that much wind. This was probably about twice the wind speeds that we saw with Floyd. I don't mention this to suggest any comparison with what you folks farther east went though, just an interesting little FYI footnote.
Someday one of those things will punch through the mountains and dump a couple feet of rain on us, then it will be our turn to suffer!
I have been wondering how my friends on the James River outside Lynchburg have been doing.