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1 posted on 10/02/2024 10:31:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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transylvaniatimes.com
123 E. Main St. Suite 201
Brevard, North Carolina 28712
Phone: (828) 883-8156
Email: news@transylvaniatimes.com

HELENE: Historic storm hammers Transylvania County
By Jonathan Rich and Nick Haseloff 22 hrs ago

https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/news/helene-historic-storm-hammers-transylvania-county/article_8071f0d8-7eca-11ef-b3fe-437d1a40186f.html

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2 posted on 10/02/2024 10:37:37 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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From the article -- "...local authorities are stopping even the media from seeing how bad the destruction is. "

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.

3 posted on 10/02/2024 10:43:10 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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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.


4 posted on 10/02/2024 10:45:16 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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Breaking: North Carolina has voted to become an oblast of Ukraine, truckloads of US federal supplies will be arriving within minutes.


5 posted on 10/02/2024 10:46:40 AM PDT by bigbob
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cooper (D)


6 posted on 10/02/2024 10:55:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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"Like, everyone's trying to be in charge without taking any type of action. Nobody wants to coordinate with anybody. Everybody wants to pretend like they're being a hero"
 
“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.
 
This is shaping up to be a statewide "Uvalde", with a punitive smell to it.
 
 
 
Not just from "politicians", bureaucrats are getting in on it too.
 
Volunteer rescuers threatened with arrest -
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9kPy7IffU
 
 

7 posted on 10/02/2024 10:57:09 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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The Dim miscreants don’t care if people in Republican areas die or lose their homes!

Lord have Mercy!


8 posted on 10/02/2024 11:02:58 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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From the PJMedia link:
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.

9 posted on 10/02/2024 11:03:14 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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But you can bet that the bodies of those who died in the flooding from the hurricane will be voting Demonicrat in November.


10 posted on 10/02/2024 11:05:20 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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"Politicians Are Hindering Rescue Efforts in North Carolina, and One Rescuer Has Had Enough"

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” ― Rahm Emanuel (2008)
14 posted on 10/02/2024 11:25:09 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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From the article:

“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

18 posted on 10/02/2024 11:33:53 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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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.


19 posted on 10/02/2024 11:34:42 AM PDT by Varda
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This power loss map also helps:

https://data.usatoday.com/national-power-outage-map-tracker/area/florida/12/


20 posted on 10/02/2024 11:36:55 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Elon Musk is getting Starlink available through Trump’s fundraising plus Ryan Hall Ya’ll and other weather-watching Youtube channels. Ryan Hall has also helped a Waffle House to open and they are delivering meals to rescue centers.

The Cajun Navy guys are mounting boat rescues. Private pilots are rescuing many of those still stranded (unless ego-filled fire captains threaten them with arrest—see video below.). Mule teams are getting supplies to people. Samaritan’s Purse has set up oxygen-providing tents for those who are on oxygen but have lost power. Private groups and individuals are busting butt to assist the people while government agencies are sitting on their thumbs trying to come up with a plan to rescue victims based on a DEI scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9kPy7IffU&t=31s

While all the above and even more groups are doing what needs to be done, government personnel are telling rescuers not to come into the area and telling people not to donate unless through them.

For some reason the government wants continuing chaos and more deaths in the weather-stricken disaster areas. I believe it is so that in about 2 weeks, they can move 3 or 4 states into mail-in ballots only. GA and NC are swing states that lean towards Trump. Mail-in ballot fraud will erase Trump’s advantage.


26 posted on 10/02/2024 11:52:31 AM PDT by CFW
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When they say, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Two weeks later. Some guy with a helicopter and ID, isn’t there to loot. I’m prepped to survive. You cannot rely on government to help you.


27 posted on 10/02/2024 12:00:43 PM PDT by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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Bongino is right.

We do not hate the media enough.


28 posted on 10/02/2024 12:03:37 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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The feds or the red cross won't lift a finger without paperwork and for some reason, it is commonly withheld in certain areas that suffer disaster. I experienced it up close and personal in the Tri-County fire of September 2011. We battled it alone for days until obama made the disaster declaration. The area is just north of Houston, suburban, staunchly conservative. Go figure.

Thank God though for HEB Grocery and their Laity Lodge charity. Their trucks and mobile kitchen were better than knights on white horses!

Before HEB it was hard working locals and donations that fed and cared for hundreds of fire fighters 24/7 for most of 5 days with solid heart felt Texas hospitality and gratefulness to the people trying to save their community.

On the other hand I have absolutely no use at all for red cross. None at all. They are like wartime profiteers and will not move a muscle without federal money passing their palms.

29 posted on 10/02/2024 12:07:22 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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Not just politicians.

Bureaucrats, too...


30 posted on 10/02/2024 12:08:18 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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“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.”

Its certainly starting to smell that way.
Wait til they try to set up alternative polling places in a couple weeks....


37 posted on 10/02/2024 1:09:10 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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The Lake Lure arsehats are now officially turning away all but official help and have made a press release:

https://www.townoflakelure.com/community/page/town-lake-lure-press-release-storm-recovery-10124-2pm

Anyone with any comments after reading that should also read this page, wherein the local government, who is backing up the assistant chief that threatened to arrest rescue helicopter pilots, lists how they may be contacted. Do as you will with the information as they put it out there for everyone to see:

https://www.townoflakelure.com/towncouncil/page/council-members


38 posted on 10/02/2024 1:15:43 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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