Posted on 10/07/2024 10:32:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
that was probably the norm a few generations ago.
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Mark Dice
10/7/24
Stunning Internal FEMA Videos Reveal Agency’s ACTUAL Top Priorities
https://youtu.be/og34LK5uNWA?feature=shared
Newly resurfaced videos of FEMA executives, including the director, reveal what the agency’s top priorities are, and while they seem like satire, they’re actually real, and this is what they’re doing. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story.
Yep, an old settlement community near our house in suburban Atlanta posed quite a problem for developers when they started finding random burials all over the place! In those days folks just buried Aunt Minnie out back . . . .
Some areas were hit with 1000-year floods. Given the topography, there’s not a government on this planet that can fix things like this in two weeks.
Not fix things, make contact and bring water and food. Basic rescue work.
Yep. There are a lot more helicopters in the air today than yesterday. That’s how they’ll doing it.
There’s plenty of truth in the article, I’m sure. But it blames “General Major” Todd Hunt for not activating the North Carolina National Guard sooner.
That doesn’t make sense. It’s my understanding that the National Guard is not activated by a general, but by a governor.
(The governor of North Carolina is a Democrat, by the way).
There was a similar flood ~100 years ago, 1916.
While I do believe that some government agencies do not perform to their potential, I also do not believe there is any conspiracy to purposely undercount the dead.
I do believe that there may be more dead than officially reported, but that is due to poor communication between EOC and the rural areas. Those that are dead are dead and the living take priority. Are dead being buried in yards, etc. Probably. It is expedient as the bodies begin to bloat and turn nasty.
Today’s count is upwards of 260 and I expect when it is all said and done that that number will double if not triple and some deaths will never been known.
But frankly, I do not think there is any conspiracy to hide the numbers—its just that they just don’t know. Local Sheriffs have a rough idea of what’s happening in their counties, but even then...
It is a horrrendous event all the way around and in a few days all will be foregotten—oh there will be anniversaries—like three months later to see how the bakery in Ashville is doing. The obligatory trip to Chimney Rock, etc....its how these things play out in the media.
But for the folks living it—it will be hell for the next several years. Some had little damage and only have to wait for city lights and city water to come back—but for others up there in the hollers and all....in some cases their land is gone....how do you rebuild if your land is now downstream? That is a nightmare.
We here in Butte County faced the same thing when the Paradise Fire ripped through and actually destroyed a town...not much left...only now can something almost normal be declared...but still its not the same number of houses, nor the same number of trees (of course)...the landscape and psyche has changed in Paradise and it will in WNC too....
If anything positive might have come out of it...is that the meth heads and the opiod users might have gotten a wake up call and decided to be part of the solution instead of a problem.
We once had two five-hundred-year floods in less than ten years here in NC.
Buring the dead in the yard will become the norm, maybe even mass graves as well if things go the way thing are heading.
There are some first-person reports on YouTube made by people who have hiked or used their own offroad vehicles to go into the affected areas, and I would trust their reports much more than second hand reporting.
Well, given that it’s Major General and not “General Major”, I’m not sure how much of the article is garbage or not. https://ng.nc.gov/major-general-todd-hunt
It will take at least 40 years to "fix" this disaster.
But immediate aid to survivors is well within government capabilities. It is clear from their official website that FEMA has other priorities. It is even clearer from accounts of FEMA activities.
The pittance of resources deployed and slow walked into the disaster area compares most unfavorably with the billions of dollars being used to resettle illegal immigrants in red States and support the war in Ukraine.
One comes to the unavoidable conclusion that the government controlled by Democrats simply does not want to help people in a region with a large population of Republicans.
There is a systemic incentive to undercount the dead. More dead makes the government look worse. Government officials do not want to look worse. That is not quite the stuff of a conspiracy, but it only takes a small nudge to get there.
With limited resources, it makes good sense to focus on rescue and supply efforts as the first priority rather than counting and identifying the dead. I cannot fault the FEMA or private teams for doing that.
Fatality counts will always be low for a mixture of reasons and will be revised later. Upwards. That is just how disasters work. What matters right now is preventing deaths of survivors who are without shelter, food, water, and mobility.
That last part is where FEMA and the Federal government are doing badly.
Lady is a nurse. Says that she is talking to people at the Yancy county fire department and they have 4 refrigerator trucks at their facuility filled with body bags and describes other things that are going on. (I note that she did not say that their were bodies in the bags or give a total number of dead. Someone said in comments that each truck can hold 90 bodies, but again, speculation.)
If there is a lack of morgue space this would make sense. This is one of those "A friend told me that..." so viewers can make up their own minds whether to believe this. Posting, but I would say that this requires independent confirmation, just not certain from whom.
Here is a link to Yancy County website:
I do not see a county Fire Department, but I do see EMS services https://yanceycountync.gov/173/EMS---Emergency-Medical-Services
Nothing that addresses this issue.
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