Posted on 10/03/2024 6:22:40 PM PDT by Libloather
Desperate residents of Hurricane Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina are relying on home-grown 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 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 drop-off and delivery zones, courtesy of a few dozen volunteers lending their time, critical supplies and in some cases, their planes to the rescue effort.
Roadways near the airports this week were jammed with donors and volunteers, who brought car and truckloads of everything from food and medicine to fuel and camping supplies. The donations were then collected and loaded into small, privately owned airplanes for delivery to the hardest-hit regions of the state.
“The amount of pilots coming in and out of Statesville today is amazing. Because of their generosity, our community is saving lives. We were able to get supplies to a remote area today for at least 100 people who had no contact with anyone until yesterday,” a volunteer posted Thursday on the Facebook page of what’s been dubbed the Hurricane Helene Airlift Relief.
In the days following the historic storm, the skies above Western North Carolina echoed with the whirring of helicopters, many of them captained by private pilots looking to lend a hand to their fellow Tar Heels.
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A sitting VP running for the US Presidency would never allow such a disastrous failure by the government to happen unless she was sure she is going to be cheated into the WH.
It’s too bad they have a wuss Dimocrat Governor instead of a get it done, big dawg governor like Ron DeSantis.
Kudos & Thank you to Ron DeSantis for sending a Florida disaster team to NC along with heavy duty equipment to put up temporary bridges [he sent those too!] where roads/bridges are washed out. I think he also sent a big Helicopter for rescuing people? He has done more for NC than our POS governor. THANK YOU Gov DeSantis & Florida!!!
Don’t need FEMA.
Bttt
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You know what, this is how it should be.
People should depend on their families, neighbors, cities and churches for aid. Tell Uncle Sam to keep the money; they’ve got a friend with a Bobcat and a chain saw.
“The new Joint Assault Bridge (JAB) can unfold a 60-foot-long bridge in just 3 minutes, allowing tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to cross rivers, ditches, craters, and other battlefield obstacles.”
“The 60-foot bridge folds in half above the vehicle. It can hold 85 tons.”
“According to the Army, the service will buy about 337 JABs—enough to replace the AVLB on a 1:1 basis.”
Buttigieg went on TV and announced he’s trying to shut down all private self-help flights because they “might be unsafe” ... ...
“Gee, I imagine that Brandon will get savaged now by the media as George W did during Katrina.”
crickets from the state-controlled propaganda media ...
And Buttigieg “might” be HIV+
K acklin’
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Wait...What’s that?? I hear a baby crying...never mind....it’s just Brandon....
So sick of these criminals but even more sick of the brain dead evil people that vote for them. This country almost isn’t fit to live in anymore. If they get in they will finish us off. This criminal at FEMA — needs to be arrested and deported.
Why do we continue to take this?? It’s absurd!!!
My many relatives in WNC say there is no federal response to the hurricane.
Years ago we had a snow storm which brought down trees by the hundreds. Our road was blocked and we had no power or communications out. My 12 yr old son said lets wait for the county to clear the road and I said if you wait for the government you will be waiting until the second coming, will clear it.
With a chain saw, clippers, hand saws, rope, atv with a blade we started cutting that morning and removed 21 trees on our road alone. When we got to the main road others had cut a trail where you could get through. We loaded our kids up in our 4x4 and took them to my parents and my wife and I went back and stayed at the house to secure it. Three days later we got power back. It took a full week to get the main road clear.
Where government is involved one’s better off with the mentality of “we were on our own.”
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