The storm, the shifter of shapes, drives on
Across the woods and across time,
And the world looks as if it had no age;
The landscape, like a line in the psalm book,
Is seriousness and weight and eternity.
--Rilke

A wind storm went through here last night. All roads in the park on the TN side are closed from blow downs. The park maintains a weather station on Cove Mountain at 4,000 feet and they recorded a gust that hit 106 mph. Trees are broken, power is still out in some places (ours was out until 10 this morning) and campers can’t get out of the campgrounds yet.

Here’s a photo from late this afternoon after everything had stopped blowing.