Nonsense. This is just click bait. There aren’t that many dead. You can’t hide that many dead people.
Tens of thousands of bodies that haven’t been recovered would be obvious. The smell alone would be noticeable for miles. People would be lined up on the side of the street with signs, looking for their loved ones. Morgues would be digging slit trenches to bury the dead.
240 deaths seems “reasonable.” It is likely that some were swept away and they lie under a few feet of silt.
Tens of thousands is hyperbole, designed to evoke an emotional reaction. It literally doesn’t pass the smell test.
180 mph winds? Nonsense.
This Guy personally has absolutely no independent information about such claims.
Nevertheless there’s also this report:
From NurseClaireSays.com
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https://nurseclairesays.com/2024/10/14/prayer-request/
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Prayer request
Posted on October 14, 2024 by Nurse Claire
The situation in North Carolina is extremely dire. I’ve seen the TikTok videos and tweets on X painting an apocalyptic picture. But it can sometimes be difficult to discern the real story vs Internet sensationalism. Since COVID, I’ve tried to not drawn any conclusions other than what I perceive with my own senses or hear directly from trusted colleagues & friends.
At any rate, I expected a few thousand to be dead in western NC, but in speaking with a friend last night, I realized that I had really low-balled the number.
Backstory: my friend is also a nurse anesthetist. She resides in Florida but is doing a “travel assignment” at a hospital in North Carolina (she started there before Helene hit). The following is what she has told me:
“Other CRNAs have been involved in the plane program, flying in shipments from private organizations to drop zones in the mountains. They fly to different bases, some in NC, some in Tennessee, even to a jail!… to pick up supplies then are flying them directly to the remote areas. Plane only can hold 1800lb of supplies. So they make 5 trips in 9 hours…each day. They drop off epi, insulin, meds, food, water, etc. they said the people flock to the plane like a third world country. Thousands are still stuck there with no way out, impoverished people with medical needs, no heat (it’s getting cold at night), no electricity, etc. no FEMA there. One PACU nurse’s husband went on the ground there to help. She said he came back in a state like she’s never seen. Dead babies in trees, hanging in branches, bodies everywhere, but the people in trees, no one can get to. There’s no ladder tall enough. He is traumatized. My coworkers whose husbands work for fire rescue in NC said the body count for the flooding is 13,000 or more. Not 250.”
My concern now is disease outbreak in the coming weeks without accessibility to clean water. Please pray for these suffering souls.
And the media yawns.
Compare the news coverage to hurricane Helene (Biden regime) to hurricane Katrina (George Bush admin).
Both storms caused massive destruction and deaths. With Katrina, the death count was due to the levies breaking and overflowing flood waters (malfeasance by Louisiana DEMOCRAT officials for squandering the $billions in money they got for the Army Core of Engineers to shore up the dams). But yet, the media blamed Bush personally for the deaths. This went on for weeks and months, criticizing and blaming Bush for Katrina.
Now hurricane Helene devastates four states, and not a peep from the media. NO ONE even mentions the terrible response from Biden. It’s as it never happened.
Somehow the state and town-level governments aren’t bothering to tally their dead?
I think the story is clickbait, as other’s have pointed out.
However, I’m sure help is needed.
If you want to help, donating to Samaritan’s Purse is a good place to start. After Cat5 Hurricane Michael hit the FL. panhandle in 2018, they stayed for a couple of years helping with cleanup. They are a true charity and are not just a moneymaking front paying big salaries and helping few.
Most people have bank accounts so you can look at the number of suddenly inactive bank accounts from people based in that area.
Cell phone accounts...how many people’s cell phone accounts are not being used or have gone inactive.
Social Security Checks...while they are deposited, the social security officials will definitely want to ascertain who in those regions aren’t alive anymore to spend the money that has been being deposited into suddenly inactive bank accounts. Also what can also be tracked are the amounts and the persons from whom social security withholdings from pay checks have suddenly stopped.
Fed and State and FICA medicare and SS withholdings that came from now dead but unknown and missing non retired persons who lived in that region can be known and the numbers of such tallied...
Utility bills...who isn’t paying their electric, gas or propane bills. Include water and sewer, for some areas if customers didn’t have their own wells or septic tanks.
Unlike the 1972 Agnes floods in that, especially with what occurred in the mountains of Va in 1972, the numbers and Identities of the dead in the 2024 floods can now be so precisely tracked and found out...certainly not in a few days but in some weeks and within a few months surely. People are so much more tied into the systems and the instantaneous databases that undergird our society!
The numbers of the dead and who they were, are probably mostly known already but there is no way the powers that be will release that info officially right now,,,till Biden skedaddles his office.
Yes it is probably in the thousands.
Smart people who know how to monitor the Cell phone traffic and patterns of subscriptions and dropped services gave us the first clues of how many people may have died in China in the first months of the Covid 19 virus. They can do the same for the Appalachian floods!
The BEST coverage is on Sundance’s ‘Conservative ‘Treehouse’...bar none. Search on ‘Tennessee” or North Carolina’...you’ll bring up a thread with over 1600 posts from people on the ground, with loads of horrifying stories and videos. This is a great source for the four or five Freepers still interested in this story. With I-26 now open (one lane), you can now get a good look at Impact Plastics where a number of people drowned...the debris field is shocking. You can drive by the lot where my HOME used to be (it was on one side of the interstate, now it is a pile of kindling on the other side).
Three hours after striking central Georgia, the storm abruptly turned northwest and hit the Appalachian Mountains with 180-mile-per-hour winds.
I’ll bet any of us can get the truth by contacting Samaritan’s Purse. They have been on the ground since the beginning providing all sorts of aid.
As we serve our neighbors in Western North Carolina,
here are our donation and volunteer needs.
So American citizens and their children can freeze to death when winter comes in Appalachia. Cheap tents won't keep out the cold.
American citizens are going to die.
The women who run FEMA are filled with hate - they want conservative children to die. The worst hit areas are 'RED' and those people voted for Trump after-all. FEMA doesn't care. Same reason press bimbos at the New York Times and Washington Post aren't covering this story. Bimbos with as much hate in their hearts as FEMA bimbos... all quiet on the Western front. Time to end FEMA and create a new organization of first responders.
The deep state is happy red state citizens are hurting - these powerless Americans voted for Trump. Besides, powerless American citizens can't give kickbacks like Ukraine. So send a few billion more to Ukraine ... and tell these citizens to stfu and die quietly.