Editor's Note: This story first appeared in the Nov. 1, 2009, edition of the Citizen-Times. All road building is political.

A rockslide close to Mile Marker 450 on Interstate 40, near the North Carolina border, early this morning has closed the westbound lanes, the Tennessee Department of Transportation has announced.

Though I no longer live in the neighborhood, Tucker is still dear to my heart - I still keep up with news through Patch, a Tucker Yahoo Group, and personal connections.

To the Cherokee, Western North Carolina was a place for healing; to late 19th- and early 20th-century physicians, it was the place for a cure.

NASA's Terra satellite caught the 2 weather systems as the satellite passed over the Central and SE U.S. at around noon yesterday.