Posted on 09/30/2024 9:30:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
NOAA via AP
Hurricane Helene dissipated over the weekend, but not before smashing into Florida’s Big Bend as a category four storm, inflicting “biblical” damage across the southern United States. After landfall, the heavy rains led to catastrophic flooding that’s killed almost 100 people so far. In the Newport area of Tennessee, about 60 miles outside Knoxville, residents were forced to scramble after the Waterville Dam failed.
And where’s Biden and Harris throughout this crisis? It’s part of an unseemly pattern with this administration: when disaster strikes, everyone runs away. A train derails in East Palestine, Ohio—the Biden White House drags their feet. Severe wildfires strike Maui, the deadliest in 100 years, and it takes Joe forever to get out there. Joe’s mind is applesauce. Kamala is too stupid to know what to do—and the rest of this government is stacked with incompetents and other invalids. Meanwhile, there are reports that hundreds of thousands of people in Ashville, North Carolina, could be without access to water for weeks.
Yes, this is a campaign issue because we have an administration that can’t do disaster response.
Does Biden even know there’s been a hurricane?
USA Today has more on the damage:
"More than 2 million people remained without power late Sunday across the Southeast in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, including more than 430,000 in North Carolina, where the deadly storm pulverized homes, trapped residents, spawned landslides, and submerged communities under raging floodwaters.
At least 90 people have died across multiple states since the record-breaking storm hit Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane with 140-mph winds Thursday, before moving north through Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas and weakening to a post-tropical cyclone. The death toll is expected to rise.
On Sunday, North Carolina officials were still trying to grasp the level of devastation. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference that at least 11 people died in the devastated state, "and tragically we know there will be more."
Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder said more than 1,000 people were reported missing through the county’s online portal but added that she expected the number to drop dramatically when cell service is restored. Rescue crews are “still trying to save every single person we can” in the hard-hit community, Pinder said.
Hundreds of roads were washed away, cellular service for over 250,000 people was cut off, and vast swaths of cities such as Asheville were left underwater. Cooper said Helene had become "one of the worst storms in modern history for parts of North Carolina."
Appalachia is Trump country
If he’s smart he will show up with a plane load of supplies for the victims.
I remember President GW Bush being mercilessly attacked for not immediately visiting hurricane stricken areas. I remember them trying to do the same with President DJT. But he out worked them by having emergency relief pre-staged and himself overseeing it all in real time. Kamala is AWOL! Deserted!
Does Biden even know he has a job? Meanwhile, Kammie is partying hearty with her Hollywood pals.
I heard on television local newscasts that the dams are normally lowered substantially before tropical storms as a prevention release to protect the dams. The news reporterette claimed that the engineers were ordered not to lower reservoir dam levels in the region.
Yes, I read about that yesterday. They were to leave the water levels high because 'elite' homeowners along the lake shore complained about not being able to use their boats for fishing and skiing.................
We all know WTF should have been done. But it won’t with this present bunch of pricks in DC.
The military should have been ordered into these areas immediately with every conceivable support.
First ones in should have been special forces to determine places and what needs to be done. After the first hours, Chinooks should have been used to fly in whatever is needed after the special forces made their determinations.
A squad at these places is all it would have taken.
We got 250 billion to dump into a GD useless war overseas but not one GD thing to relieve fellow countrymen.
They also just flat ignore red states/ areas when disaster strikes.
They are not leaders of the country. They only help those who vote for them, in pure, spiteful retribution.
Its good if Americans finally learn that a massive, debt-bloated Fed.gov is purely a political institution, which will never really help them
Whoever gave that order should be in prison for life.
At least a foot of rain was forecast in the region at least two days before it came.
The Appalachian Mountains force the whirling air to go higher and to give up moisture as rain.
This is Harris’s Katrina..forget about Biden he’s brain dead, but Harris, they are scared now, this is their katrina and they know it! The ONLY reason why they are now pretending to care is because Trump is going today to Georgia and North Carolina to assist
Biden was asked about the strike on Yemen and his response was how he’s trying hard to avert the port strike..no its not THAT strike you f*ckin idiot!
I hope Vance makes that point at the debate tomorrow.
Asheville is very liberal. When National disasters strike better be in a red state.
She's afraid if she shows up she might get a question from a reporter.
The only thing a Government ever protects is itself............
The hurricane slipped through the water between Cuba and Mexico, so it did not lose much strength by the impeding of the Cuban mountains.
The hurricane then stayed off the coast of Florida far enough as to not lose much force by going over land.
There were fewer clouds in the air in the late season, so the Gulf surface temperatures were high.
That all made for a very powerful storm.
The only Constitutional duty of the federal government is restoring the “post-roads”.
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