Posted on 10/04/2024 9:15:49 AM PDT by Starman417
You know the names. East Palestine. Maui. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia.
It was a year before Biden/Harris made landfall in East Palestine and more than a year after the train derailment, the town is still suffering
Many residents of East Palestine, Ohio, have warily returned to their homes after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of dangerous chemicals into the air and water earlier this month. The towering smoke cloud from the burning vinyl chloride has drifted away, and the track has been cleared. Trains are now running again through the town.But the 4,700 residents of East Palestine say they still smell chemical residue in the air, see an oily sheen in the water, and are suffering from headaches and nausea. Concern is mounting about the long-term effects of the disaster.
A lot of people are not happy with the settlement.
The town of Lahaina, Maui was burned to the ground on August 8, 2023. It wasn't until August 21 that Biden/Harris paid a visit. Biden made a promise:
'We're going to rebuild the way the people of Maui want it to be rebuilt'
FEMA handed out $5.6 million with each household collecting a grand total of $700. Up to that point Biden/Harris had sent $113 billion to Ukraine and that same week sent an additional $200 million. A year later Lahaina is still gone.
Hurricane Helene ravaged much of the Southeast. The death toll is now over 200 with the majority occurring in North Carolina. It was seven days before Harris deigned to visit. She was too busy on the West coast collecting campaign cash to drop in before that.
Obama once ripped into George Bush for waiting seven days to set foot in the aftermath of Katrina. Biden has no idea what is going on.
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No, they’re not very happy.
Desperate residents of Hurricane Helene-ravaged western North Carolina are relying on homegrown rescue efforts instead of waiting for the Biden-Harris administration’s financially depleted FEMA to get its act together. Not content to hold out hope for help that some fear might not arrive in time, a handful of grassroots rescue operations have sprung up to render assistance by air, land and even on four legs.With hundreds more missing in the remote, unforgiving terrain and communication services damaged or nonexistent, the search for survivors grows more dire with each passing hour. Local airports like City of Statesville Regional Airport and Hickory Regional Airport have transformed themselves into donation dropoff and delivery zones, courtesy of a few dozen volunteers lending their time, critical supplies and in some cases, their planes to the rescue effort.
The Harris response has been lame
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
either we have a federal FEMA emergency assistance program or we don’t
(I am all for transferring any such governmental activity to the states and locals as this is NOT a constitutional federal function and the feds are manifestly incapable of handling it...but anyway.... as long as we have a federal energency assistance program....)
offering a paltry $750 cheque is not proper emergency assistance, it is an insult!
WTF do Biden/IneligibleHarris think they’re doing?
(I am all for transferring any such governmental activity to the states and locals as this is NOT a constitutional federal function and the feds are manifestly incapable of handling it...but anyway.... as long as we have a federal energency assistance program....)
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It would make much more sense to me for states to manage their own emergencies. Personally, I would trust me state more to care about me and other constituents.
However, states have to balance their budgets.
The federal government has an unlimited supply of $$$.
What they can’t tax, they can print.
What’s ironic about that is, FEMA just asked for more money.
Maybe they should ask Zalenski
I had two and half feet of water in my basement about 14 years ago took out washer, dryer and hot water heater the main damage but at least FEMA had three thousand dollars for me and the state of Pennsylvania put 200 dollars on top of that.
the D’s buy votes with our tax money as part of their communist ideological commitment and it is also very efficient for them, not using their own money to buy votes
but
do they think that stinking $750 cheques will buy the votes of folks whose houses have been destroyed?
this just proves again that the fed bureaucrappy is incapable of handling programs designed to “reach” individuals in a society of 360,000,000 people
BTTT
FWIW, this was posted on FB and because of my history working in local government in NY during Hurricane Irene, I know this to be fairly accurate according to the individual circumstance.
Red Cross and FEMA are frauds, taking most of the money from the government for themselves for “administrative costs” and giving people nothing.
Red Cross handed out cheap mops and buckets and a quart of bleach to flooded residents. I believe some people got 2 nights in a roach motel.
Food and water donations are confiscated from the givers if they can be confiscated, and doled as according to whoever is in charge.
Anyway, this was on the FR FB page if you haven’t seen it:
“If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN - you’ll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.
I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help.
I cannot confirm the reasons why in NC, but i can tell you the reasons in other storms i have worked - i’ll explain below.
Let me share with you the first disaster area that i finally realized that this was all about money.
In the FL Keys with Hurricane Irma, after Texas got hit with Harvey, we finished our efforts in Texas and were the first citizen team to make it to Key Largo.
The federal agencies had US1 shut down just South of Key Largo and wouldn’t let anyone in or out, even though the road was okay to pass.
We explained to them that we had boats, Jet skis, food, water, chainsaws and fuel to bring these people.
They didn’t care and wouldn’t let us in.
It was night by that point and you rarely saw the lights of vehicles in the distance on the individual keys, meaning the emergency response teams from FEMA weren’t even working, it was all quiet.
We decided that we would go in anyways.
We filled up the boats and jet skis with all that we could reasonably carry and went by water, around all their BS blockades and around their law enforcement presence on the water.
It was 87 miles by water to get to our first stop, Cudjoe Key and Sugarloaf Key.
When we arrived there we were greeted by a homeowner (for privacy, I won’t name him, though we have video) who was elated to see us and all the supplies we brought, his house was in shambles.
We started offloading supplies on the shoreline and helping to get them into what was left of his house.
During that process, he explained to us that FEMA had set up a command center at a local high school on the island, but that they weren’t doing anything to help the residents, not even bringing them WATER!
Instead, he explained that they were driving around using a loudspeaker, telling people to stay in their homes. They weren’t even helping the home owners with supplies.
I was skeptical at first while he was telling me all of this, but then he said something that broke my heart....
He told us that the people of the keys were all in despair, because they had just seen, weeks before, the overwhelming support for Texas with Hurricane Harvey, by the citizens of this country. He, and his neighbors on all of the keys, felt like Americans had forgotten about them completely, because at this point, FIVE DAYS after landfall, all they had seen was FEMA, and they were of NO HELP.
The residents were cut off from the outside world, no cellular, no internet, no way to contact anyone or hear of any efforts to try to help them.
The ONLY communication they had was from a local radio station on Sugarloaf Key, that was broadcasting on AM to the surrounding keys.
The man, after hearing that there were citizens trying to bring them help, but being refused entry by federal law enforcement was visibly upset. He, and his neighbors, really thought the country had abandoned them.
He insisted that we get into his waterlogged truck and that he would take us to that radio station so that we could go live on air, to tell the citizens trapped in the Keys that we, the American people, were there to help and that the government was trying to stop our efforts.
And that is exactly what we did.
After that, we were determined to help as many people as we could, but we were met with red tape throughout the whole process and time we were in the keys.
We finally we able to talk some authorities to let us down to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon towards the end of Boot Key. This was the same hotel where state and local authorities were staging their personnel and they were happy to see us.
I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down to the EOC in Marathon. I was privy to the EOC meeting, BUT was informed in that meeting, that all of the semi trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around and not allowed to be offloaded for distribution by the EOC.
THE REASON they gave us, was that these donations were not from companies on their “preferred vendors list” and that they would not accept them or give them to the residents of the keys impacted by the storm.
It was at that point that I realized, this is ALL ABOUT MONEY.
These ‘preferred vendors” are getting part of the money being released by the state and federal govt for each disaster. In turn, some of the “vendors” make it on the list because a friend gets them on the list, and in return for getting ridiculously outlandish amounts of compensation for the services they render, they give kickbacks.
So accepting outside donations, even though they are on location and can help people NOW, they would rather let people suffer so they can get their kickbacks.
This meeting solidified my resolve to help these people, regardless of what the greedy officials wanted, we were going to feed the lower keys that were being neglected.
I diverted ALL SEMI TRUCKS to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon and filled the entire first floor with pallets upon pallets of food, water and essential supplies and created a food pantry for residents to come and get anything, and however much they needed.
From local state troopers to the homeless, all were given wheel barrels and free reign to get anything they needed.
We also delivered supplies down to Big Pine Key. We helped establish the tent city on Big Pine Key. Big companies like Titos Vodka and Whelen just kept bringing trucks full of everything that was needed.
When FEMA FINALLY started handing out boxes of canned goods (limited to one per household), we were filing cars full of food and supplies for people and pets.
There is so much more to the story in the Keys and further from there in other storms we worked- the common theme though, is that the federal government always tries to keep citizens from helping and the local authorities, the ones that live and work in the area are always happy to have outside help.
I call out to Elon Musk and anyone else who can monetarily help people like myself and those that work with me, who have the knowledge and the will to help those devastated by these disasters.
Help us side step the red tape and get the people the relief they need.
We are willing, and we are many, and we are ready. “
- Ryan Tyre
“And get some ice on your lip.”
After refusing the money, he said “and f**k all those morons at FEMA.”
And K-bag said “You think I could?”
Folks: TAKE OUT STUDENT LOANS
Just a practical question: What good does a cheque (in any amount) do these people in their devestated surroundings? Where are they going to cash it? Where spend the cash?
amazon.com?
The check would first have to be deposited in order to get Amazon paid. Getting to a bank, or even online access during a disaster may be difficult if not impossible. Another issue is being able to get deliveries.
The simplest of things are often not available in disaster areas.
How to reach them with no electricity/communications?
I understand and agree
I was just joshing a bit how Amazon can deliver tons of stuff, often overnight, when the federal government is such a total snafu
Hi
Understood and agreed
I was just joshing a bit about how Amazon can deliver tons of stuff, often overnight, while the federal administration is so snafu
Got it! 👍🏻
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