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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Maybe the Haitians can show them how to find a fine meal.
Anyone share this with Paul Krugman?
Gee, I imagine that Brandon will get savaged now by the media as George W did during Katrina.
No...I guess not.
Pregnant woman survived Helene floodwaters by clinging to a mattress with her dog for 8 hours
I am truly impressed with the MOUNTAIN MULE PACKERS RANCh that is using MULE TRAINS to carry in water—food—Meds-—by packing everything on MULES.
They can go on trails no one else can get on & can pack a heavy load.
Saw one pic with over 19 mules tied to a VERY LONG stock trailer. IF each one can pack 300#, that is ALOT of help.
Maybe this proves Mayorkas and Biden orient their administration around themselves and to hell with the American taxpayers; just give me the money.
Depends which state
Zelinsky and Mayorkas robbed the Treasury, with nothing left for actual needs. The Ukraine bagmen and the millions of illegals free airfare, food, lodging, Healthcare, and bus transit, burned up FEMA’s budget on bombs, Ukraine government officials pensions, and welfare for illegals.
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Mayorkas 3 months ago: FEMA is “tremendously prepared” for hurricane season
Mayorkas today: FEMA is out of money and can’t make it through hurricane season. “We do not have the funds”
https://rumble.com/v5hds91-mayorkas-3-months-ago-fema-is-tremendously-prepared-for-hurricane-season.html
Don’t forget that flight operations had to stop when Sleepy Joe flew in for his official looky-loo.
Oh, the Unintended Consequences of voting for Democrats.
Fending for one’s self is a good thing.
Considering all the agencies get a financial boost every year it is fair to say FEMA blew a couple million on DEI crap, vacations, payoffs, (via over-paid contracts) and other nefarious activities. Yeah, just like every other agency.
If a hurricane disaster like this one had happened in some third world hellhole Biden and Harris would have sent every resouce we have plus some.
FEMA money and effort was spent bringing illegals into the country. Harris a commie wannabee - and a useful idiot.
Fedgov runs a very tight budget when it comes to Americans. Not so much to illegals and foreign countries such as Ukraine, Iran,Egypt Somalia and other s-holes. I remember during Katrina they had the National Guard and active duty units with full Fedgov support in the disaster zone almost immediately with the media darling Gen. Honore in charge. Helene survivors get $750 and a bag of Doritos by Harris. All available assets are told to stand down. 101st and 82nd are right there with the best assets on the planet BUT they are tasked to Mideast duty.The NC Gov Cooper is a complete POS.
a country that prints its own money, a government that puts off vendor payments for 6 months or more, a Congressional House that hold the pursestrings, can’t find the money? horsepucky
AND FEMA is making it illegal for private citizens to help.
SO MUCH JOY
The Harris-Biden cabal are literally perpetrating massive political theft and it is being committed directly in the face of the American public.
Will the growing public's outrage spill over into election-year voting?
How can the voters abide this blatant misappropriation of money--cash coming directly from those taxpayers wallets & bank accounts?
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