Posted on 11/20/2024 5:02:36 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
This is a tough message to write, because we’ve all heard so much about this topic, and it’s nearly impossible to get a straight answer from government officials or internet searches. I’m talking about the devastation in Appalachia from Hurricane Helene.
I’ve followed this story from the beginning and put together a file of information that I found to be valid and confirmed. So, what I’m about to share with you is what we know, and much of this comes directly from people who are, or have been, in the area — either residents of the area or those from other parts who have participated in rescue, cleanup and directly helping survivors.
Hurricane Helene was a huge, catastrophic tropical cyclone that made landfall on September 26 in Northwestern Florida. It then moved inland, causing devastation in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. Three hours after striking central Georgia, the storm abruptly turned northwest and hit the Appalachian Mountains with 180-mile-per-hour winds. This, after dumping huge amounts of rainfall on the area for approximately three days prior. Rainfall in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina ranged from one foot to over three feet in three days, causing unprecedented flooding and landslides.
At this time, I cannot get an accurate death count. It’s unlikely we ever will. Government agencies are simply stating it was more than 230 people killed in total — in four states. Locals in North Carolina, however, report the number in that state alone is in the thousands, perhaps in the tens of thousands. Many, if not most of the bodies of those killed will never be recovered, buried under 30 feet of mud from landslides, after being torn apart and washed away.
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The info at ‘Conservative Treehouse’ will stun you.
Were you there? I didn’t think so. I was.
I must confess the stress and danger of the time have left an abiding sense of doubt and insecurity in my mind. I sit in my study writing by lamplight, and suddenly I see again the healing valley below set with writhing flames, and feel the house behind and about me empty and desolate. I go out into the Byfleet Road, and vehicles pass me, a butcher boy in a cart, a cabful of visitors, a workman on a bicycle, children going to school, and suddenly they become vague and unreal, and I hurry again with the artilleryman through the hot, brooding silence. Of a night I see the black powder darkening the silent streets, and the contorted bodies shrouded in that layer; they rise upon me tattered and dog-bitten. They gibber and grow fiercer, paler, uglier, mad distortions of humanity at last, and I wake, cold and wretched, in the darkness of the night.I go to London and see the busy multitudes in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes across my mind that they are but the ghosts of the past, haunting the streets that I have seen silent and wretched, going to and fro, phantasms in a dead city, the mockery of life in a galvanised body. And strange, too, it is to stand on Primrose Hill, as I did but a day before writing this last chapter, to see the great province of houses, dim and blue through the haze of the smoke and mist, vanishing at last into the vague lower sky, to see the people walking to and fro among the flower beds on the hill, to see the sight-seers about the Martian machine that stands there still, to hear the tumult of playing children, and to recall the time when I saw it all bright and clear-cut, hard and silent, under the dawn of that last great day. . . .
And strangest of all is it to hold my wife’s hand again, and to think that I have counted her, and that she has counted me, among the dead.
Thanks
The media certainly swept any coverage of the North Carolina devastating loss away quickly if this had been a CA earthquake we would get daily reports. Just like Maui we get silence.Democrats create destruction they don’t know the first thing about fixing and rebuilding useless there is a side hustle in it for them aka Haiti.
“Has connectivity been restored across Appalachia?”
Yes. Cell towers weren’t terribly affected and the ones that were are back up
“In Western North Carolina, telecommunication partners have activated disaster roaming, which allows phones on any cellular network to access any available network. This service is free. “
What are the numbers of generally active bank accounts from folks in that region that have suddenly gone silent?
Who of the responsibly active paying customers aren’t suddenly paying their utility bills and have not called in to explain why?
How many cell phones numbers are now not being used, as cell phone services get restored?
You can bet the Social Security Admin is tracking this one! How many SS pensioners and those on SSI disability are not accessing their bank accounts of late into which the Social Security admin had depositing their monthly checks?
Similarly for working people. The missing amongst them can be partially tracked by withholding accounts suddenly not getting fed, state, ss and fica withholding moneys. Some businesses may have been destroyed so that some people have lost their jobs but those still living folks would have sought out unemployment or other jobs that might have been available. Some may have left for other states to find work and will eventually be accounted for...still this leaves another avenue with which to track the dead.
It might take till next summer, but the number of dead and missing can be partially ascertained by the numbers of Federal income tax forms and State income tax forms that ARE Not filed by April 15th 2025 next spring as compared to 2024.
As i said earlier...losses of incoming with-holdings moneys can be tracked now! Also the numbers of individuals with businesses who have been lost and killed can be ascertained by the numbers of quarterly business taxes NOT being collected!
Now if I have thought of these ways that the numbers of dead can start to be more realistically tracked and estimated, you can bet some of the smart wonderkinds of the Fed and Stae governments are already doing so. They just don’t want to report it for political and social reasons. The numbers may just be too shocking according to them, to release just now! They want Biden gone and out of office before those numbers get released!
exCELLent?
Three hours after striking central Georgia, the storm abruptly turned northwest and hit the Appalachian Mountains with 180-mile-per-hour winds.
The “No FEMA money for Trump supporters” completely wiped us off the news channels, mostly due to the fact that everyone knew that would happen. We are a major Trump area, signs and flags everywhere, and no one has seen FEMA money.
January 20th can't come soon enough.
Trump needs to appoint Mark Robinson a team to rebuild N.C. on day one.
ou cannot have thousands of people dead without funerals or people asking what happened to them.
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If they are buried under 20 feet of mud and silt, no funeral is necessary, they are just wiped off the face of the earth.
Some simple ways to help track the numbers of the dead!...how many bank accounts owned by the peoples in that region have sudden showed no activity in the last 6 weeks?
(I’m sure the Social Security Administration would like to know this one aforementioned above so they can stop payments to bank accounts that appear to have gone dormant!)
How many customers are there who have stopped paying their utility bills and HAVE NOT CALLED in to explain why?
As cell services get reconnected...how many phone numbers are there that have not shown any activity in several weeks or have not been migrated to other providers or have been cancelled due to lack of payment...(not entirely accurate but the numbers can show an anomaly of missing numbers of customers. This was done to track the numbers of missing or dead Chinese people during the Covid 19 early days)
Property tax payments, and monthly auto insurance payments not being payed can help direct an inquiry of the dead and missing.
You can bet there are Federal and state people who are using these methods to track the dead and missing but are keeping quiet about it for political reasons.
The IRS is sensitive about people not suddenly paying their quarterly business taxes. State and Federal tax with-holding accounts for individuals suddenly not getting any funds will also be looked at! An investigation of these will also reveal numbers of folks who might be dead and missing in the Helene floods!
I don’t know about multiple thousands but certainly more than than 300. The official accounts of the dead are weasily words anyway. Most accounts read...”above 300 or 230 ect” So people think,,,well that’s not so bad. They overlook the word”above” or words like “estimated”.
This is just silly. I quit reading right after this. “hit the Appalachian Mountains with 180-mile-per-hour winds”.
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Forget the wind, it was the heavy rain and the gulleys washers that killed the people.
“They want Biden gone and out of office before those numbers get released!”
An understandable sentiment, given the current political climate.
How many customers are there who have stopped paying their utility bills and HAVE NOT CALLED in to explain why?
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A lot of the pre-existing utilities are gone.
Based on what you’ve seen, do you think the info there is true?
Watching the National Guard burning debris fields in the middle of Interstate 26 just below Exit 40 was surreal...the copters prowling thru the low smoke reminded me of a Stephen King movie.
Agree...the water was death.
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