General Discussion

perpetual public tantrum. So 21st century American, this dissonance.

Still, it cannot be overstated how isolated much of the area actually is and even more so when even a few roads are impassable. The current case is that many roads are impassable, leaving a near hopeless traffic jam the size of New Jersey. I understand that Trump's Ashville rally caused the city to go from traffic-frailty to totally gridlocked. Like the straw which broke the camel's back of vehicular movement.

My point being that there are doubtless many newsworthy and informative stories there which are left hidden from the public, knowledge of their existence impeded by simple, extreme isolation and inaccessibility.