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."
this hurricane wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for people ion red states using plastic straws and bags, which cause climates change
And the putzheads in the district of corruption will not help or fix anything.
I’m waiting for the first ones to blame President Donald J. Trump for all of this mess. (We know it’s coming.)
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Another chance for elitists to come in and buy up cheap property.
Waiting for the ‘climate change’ lectures to complete the pattern.
The two worst candidates to ever occupy the White House.
So do I.
And hopefully Americans will learn soon.
“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.”
There is only one reason why that would have occurred... and that reason is that the PTBs wanted a disaster in that region. It’s the equivalent of a “stand down” order.
God help us if there’s a national disaster (October surprise?) for the Marxists to choose to ignore and refuse aid for. We literally have the enemy in control of the nation now (stolen elections have consequences).
No flood in Delaware story must be fake.
Joe Biden
Giant understatement.
And the dims know that.
This obama’s handiwork: Reward your friends and punish your enemies. The kenyan considers Americans and especially Americans that don’t support him to be his enemies.
Is it just me, or has anyone noticed that the local news outlets no longer have seasoned reporters? It seems like every reporter on the scene of anything is still in high school? No questions. Nothing but repeated scripting from a producer inside a van with streaming data links to get content orders from.
I’m hearing really bad things. It’s not being reported in the media. It’s as bad or worse than Katrina.
Landslides, washouts, and bodies floating in creeks everywhere.
Now that you mention it, that’s the trend I see on what little local news I watch.
The only thing Biden admin responds to is bad optics on the evening news. Biden is always a dollar short and a day late.
“disturbing pattern” is all they can call this abomination??????
The liberals will flock to their generous compassionate conservative relatives at times like this.there will be a free liberal migration soon.
Yep. Gone are the community icons of local media. Who thought Ron Burgundy was a documentary?
Don’t forget electric cars.
A feature and not a bug.
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