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Hurricaine Helene Aftermath - Appalachian State University, North Carolina

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Well, that's a great way to get a really bad infection.

Flood waters contain everything from sewage to dead animals to parasites.
- Man, he’s a college student, he probably eats worse.
- Rafts of fire ants are also a sure way to liven things up
  
  Fire ants rafting is a sure sign there is no god. At least not a benevolent, personal one.
- At first I read that as dead animals and peasants.
  
  Bring out your dead!
Jesus, that’s the basest of bacterial soups he’s basting in. That’s sewage and corpse water.

Necrotizing fasciitis isn’t a single bacteria. It’s a bacteria gone wild such that the tissue dies under the stress of it. This guy’s feet and junk are in that mess.

Horrifying outcomes may happen.
- It's ok. He has his beer.
- Psh, you wouldn't be saying that if you saw the 2-day-old, cold, left out pizza he ate just before the pic was taken!
  
  And it was only slight wet, nothing a few paper towel couldnt dry up.
Holy shit this dude needs to get out of that water
- "It's just dirt!"
Microbiology is optional at North Carolina State University.
- I mean yeah, it was for me as a Comp Sci major. NCSU is almost three hours east of where this pic was taken though.
What is he watching
Going to school in a hurricane-prone state? That sounds like a great idea!

Seriously I refuse to live anywhere that wouldn't remain well above sea level even if you melted every ice crystal on earth. If the universe wants to natural disaster me to death it's gonna have to go the extra million miles and drop an asteroid on me.
- As the name of the school implies, it’s in the Appalachian mountains…so hundreds of miles from the sea?
  
  Not exactly hurricane territory.
  
  Helene ended up around the southern tip of Illinois and Indiana so uh, yeah, everything from the Gulf to one state south of the Great lakes is hurricane territory now.
  
  Maybe not before but it is now
- Places thousands of feet above sea level found themselves under deep water after this storm.
  
  Boone is 3300 feet above sea level, in fact.
  
  Not going to lie, struggling with the "how" on this one. Stationary water anyway.
- You should learn a little geography. NC is a very wide state. Most of it hasn't been prone to hurricanes. The coast gets hit every few years with a decent one, but it's been over 30 years since one came anywhere close to that far inland with more than the power of a heavy storm.

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