Posted on 10/02/2024 10:31:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The devastation that Tropical Storm Helene inflicted on western North Carolina is still heartbreaking several days after the storm has passed. Countless North Carolinians are stranded in the mountains and valleys of that part of the state, many of them without medications or other things that they need to survive.
Towns and cities like Asheville are dealing with widespread damage and power outages. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has several road and trail closures, even as U.S. 441, the main highway between Cherokee and Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/Sevierville, remains open and passable.
It's hard to describe how difficult people in North Carolina have it, but this Facebook post explains some if it:
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Remember the government hindering coverage of the Hawaii fire? Our little island is collecting "stuffs" of all sorts to send aid to North Carolina communities, and specifically NOT through government channels.
Impossible for me to know if these claims are true.
I will say this: if politicians and their agencies have not put an emergency plan together and tested it frequently then things can go very bad when a major disaster does strike.
Breaking: North Carolina has voted to become an oblast of Ukraine, truckloads of US federal supplies will be arriving within minutes.
The Dim miscreants don’t care if people in Republican areas die or lose their homes!
Lord have Mercy!
Jonathan Howard has been working on rescue efforts since over the weekend, and he didn’t hold back in explaining what’s going on. You can watch the video here, but I didn’t embed it because of the profanity.
“I try not to cuss but I am just so mad at the lack of Government support and I need people to hear how desperate this situation is,” Howard wrote in his caption. “I don’t have time to be nice or gentle right now. People are literally dying by the day here and it can all be fixed with Helicopters. It’s like our Government wants these people to die. They’re so incompetent, disorganized, and dishonest it’s disgusting.”
Howard is a member of the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit, and he has been working with a non-profit called Aerial Recovery to help save lives. But he’s running into infuriating bureaucratic brick walls.
But you can bet that the bodies of those who died in the flooding from the hurricane will be voting Demonicrat in November.
Many “leaders” are bound to the DEI decision process that requires “Diversity,” “Equity,” and “Inclusion” performance in every step - thus LOCK STEP.
For sure the DNC will take full advantage of the chaos to interfere with
NC votes
Not all the cops are acting like the fire chief jerk at Lake Lurie.
Cleetus McFarland got his renovated MD500 into a lot of areas with water and supplies, also pulling people out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQAPEBKhMS8
There’s a Redneck Airforce formed up supporting all the private chopper owners who are going in wherever they can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1kXAkENZFE
The Lake Lurie fire chief has to be the most hated person in NC right about now.
“The news media is lowballing just how BAD it really is”
Yeah. Noticed that.
Biden and the rat governor are pretending to do all they can but what they’re really doing is screwing the red area of NC. Kemp is in on the game too down in GA since he plays for the opposing team.
Not funny. People - my people there - dying.
You must write for The Bee.
“There's military helicopters all over here sitting on the ground, and they can't do nothing,” he vented. “Even my JSOC boys in Fayetteville, they can't get orders if they're not here. It is just the most disgusting thing, and they're killing these people. And I don't know why they're doing it.”Howard said that he doesn’t “know what kind of conspiracy” is behind this bureaucratic nightmare. In my more cynical moments, I can’t help but wonder if Gov. Roy Cooper (D-N.C.) and the Biden-Harris administration are willing to let Republican voters in a reliably red part of the state fend for themselves — and die. I don’t want to believe that, but it’s hard to shake that gut feeling.
Howard’s angry passion was palpable as he concluded his rant. He rightly pointed out that “they are literally allowing these people to... die in the mountains right now because we can't get helicopters. They got money for everything else in the... world right now, but if they could just get us helicopters, we could fly out there and rescue these people. So I hope this video goes viral.”
-PJ
This is an excellent article and people should know that this could happen in your area.
I used to have some friends who did search and rescue (national and international). They ran into this problem a couple of times. Arrive on the scene and instead of looking for survivors, they had to leave because there was no established chain of command and the various departments are fighting with each other.
This power loss map also helps:
https://data.usatoday.com/national-power-outage-map-tracker/area/florida/12/
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