Kay Wade
A Long Road Ahead
Bare-branch winter does little to hide chaos left behind on one fateful day in the autumn of 2024, beyond those terrible, terrible floods. Road trips reveal how much of the southeast was victim to a storm like no other. Healthy trees, ripped violently from earth, lay fallen across entire hillsides, fanned roots exposing tree undersides to the world like a dirty rising sun. Certainly here, along the base of the Blue Wall, decades will pass before the scars aren’t so obvious, before a new growth, waiting even now to take over new territory, can begin to restore what so recently was. ~K