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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Nineteen The Potential Of Catastrophic Has Entered The Forest · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcasts listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: Arrooe dot net. The searching is over. It's all in
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  Speaker 1: one place. Enjoy the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation. Welcome to Forest Stories, a series
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  Speaker 1: of short winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping trees,
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  Speaker 1: stuck feet first and Georgia Clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 1: over thirty three years. I Am the Poet in the Forest,
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  Speaker 1: a children's series written and recorded in the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: It's grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 1: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, at the base
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  Speaker 1: of Heartbreak Hills. It's a sign that reads Rainbow Forest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations
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  Speaker 1: long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 1: around this beautiful lake, slow moving stream, flatland swamps, and
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  Speaker 1: array of natural animals. There were families and business owners
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  Speaker 1: who are said to have raced into this area for
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and
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  Speaker 1: wild grapevines. Those before me either forgot to write about
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  Speaker 1: it or it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being a part of the conversation. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the forest. Wow, what a story we have in
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  Speaker 1: front of us here, one that you would like to write.
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  Speaker 1: But I spend so much time saying, don't write a
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  Speaker 1: story before it happens. And yet you want to write
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  Speaker 1: this story because you want to document something before it happens.
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  Speaker 1: When the weather guys say what has headed our way
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  Speaker 1: could be catastrophic, you stop, you look around, and you listen.
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  Speaker 1: This entire past week, I've spent all my time studying
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  Speaker 1: the animals, watching the deer. Are they laying down? What
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  Speaker 1: are the cardinals doing? Are the squirrels packing things up
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  Speaker 1: and making their homes safer, stronger against winds? The cold
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  Speaker 1: that has actually just headed on his way here? What
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  Speaker 1: about the snow? The rain, and how about this even
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  Speaker 1: the ice that's coming this direction. And that's where they're
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  Speaker 1: saying it's gonna be catastrophic because it could be three
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  Speaker 1: quarters of an inch thick, which could bring down a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these trees as well as our power line.
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  Speaker 1: Catastrophic that's their word inside this forest today. And so
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  Speaker 1: we're on this trail today walking through the forest very quiet.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like the squirrels have said, I'm going inside.
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  Speaker 1: Where are the deer? I don't even see them laying around?
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  Speaker 1: Where's the hawk? Where's the owl? Where are my forest friends?
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  Speaker 1: You know? I see sparrows here and there. I see
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  Speaker 1: the wild finches here and there. I took out a
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  Speaker 1: ton of food so that they could eat it off
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  Speaker 1: the forest floor today, But in doing so, I had
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  Speaker 1: to remind myself that right now, if it starts raining,
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  Speaker 1: then it isn't anything. It's just a bunch of mush.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't see any of these animals eating mush.
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  Speaker 1: Catastrophic is the word inside the forest today. We are
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  Speaker 1: literally maybe maybe less than ten hours away from this
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  Speaker 1: journey beginning, and you can't help but wonder is it
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  Speaker 1: gonna be? We've had that before with tropical storms and
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  Speaker 1: hurricanes and torrential swollen streams and big lakes that feel
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  Speaker 1: like they want to take over your life and redesign
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  Speaker 1: the entire process and path of the journey of this forest.
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  Speaker 1: But then you remind yourself, this forest is all one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent nature made. This is not Low's, this is
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  Speaker 1: not home depot the word catastrophic. This forest knows that.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing about it is this forest is saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've got this humen. Oh, you had to throw that in.
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  Speaker 1: Huh oh hugh Amen. Hey, thanks for being a part
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  Speaker 1: of the conversation.