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FEMA sends dozens of electric chainsaws to North Carolina town without power.
threadreaderapp.com ^ | October 08, 2024 | M_C_Masters

Posted on 10/08/2024 8:41:10 PM PDT by Red Badger

We are on the mountaintop in Little Switzerland collecting airlifted donations and distributing them to homes that have no power or are inaccessible. The community is self organizing incredibly well Image This is the only federal government response I've seen so far. Almost all the pallets we have received are donations coming in from citizens and orgs. Feds usually don't come this far up into the mountains

This has been the government donation: pallets of electric chainsaws to communities that have no power


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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: North Carolina; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: chainsaws; disaster; fema; helene; hurricane; littleswitzerland; northcarolina
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1 posted on 10/08/2024 8:41:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Not really? They aren't that stupid are they?

I know better, probably they are.

2 posted on 10/08/2024 8:43:33 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: Red Badger

Green agenda! What can’t it do? Uh, cut trees? ๐Ÿ˜ต


3 posted on 10/08/2024 8:43:59 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from withinE? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: Red Badger

Reality doesn’t matter. What matters is that the left gets to think of themselves as the wise elite with all the answers.


4 posted on 10/08/2024 8:44:04 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Red Badger

I suppose you could move them back and forth and cut some twigs for fire wood.


5 posted on 10/08/2024 8:45:27 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Red Badger

Similar to a stupid person pouring gasoline onto a house fire while saying “I’m helping”.
They’re doing something they think is useful, are only in the way, and actively make things worse.


6 posted on 10/08/2024 8:46:01 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Sequoyah101

“I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.”..................


7 posted on 10/08/2024 8:46:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

The government has to change over to all electric โ€œenginesโ€ by 2030. Why not start with chainsaws first. Solar powered generators to charge them anyone?
I would like to assume FEMA bought all the chain saws in a couple of states and did not look at what the contractor was providing. Avoidable mess.


8 posted on 10/08/2024 8:48:25 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Red Badger

Why not plug them in to a PV array?

I’ve seen ads on the internet for solar arrays that are the size of a cutting board and generate a few kW of AC!

(ha ha)


9 posted on 10/08/2024 8:49:18 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger

Electric chin saws are really useful in certain situations, such as clearing small trees where you have a decent delay in between each tree. Post hurricane, I want a gas chain saw all day.


10 posted on 10/08/2024 8:49:44 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Red Badger

The bulk of FEMA people who ‘show-up’ (not the office types), are just there to use the GPC (Gov’t Purchase Card)...loaded with half-a-million. They are simply ‘spenders’. Some might have some insight on how to buy/station things. In this case, I’ll bet it was a first-time deployment for the FEMA agent buying chain saws.


11 posted on 10/08/2024 8:49:55 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Red Badger

ON PURPOSE, IMHO.


12 posted on 10/08/2024 8:50:34 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: rktman; wattojawa

My fully charged Ryobi is only good for less than 4” diameter softwood saplings.

My 18” gas Stihl handles the rest.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 8:51:57 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Red Badger

DAMN! Just pathetic. Probably the questionable pronoun group in the sickening meeting or the girl FEMA boss who have never even used or wanted to use a chainsaw picked them out.

(But they are good at critical racial theories intersecting with queer theory, using Kamala’s supposed love of Venn Diagrams.

(Oops, she meant Venn Diaphragms! Wishful thinking, she’s 60.)

18 inch BATTERY chain saws. Guess they can pedal a bike to charge each battery up. Or charge one a day on a little solar charger.

Or drive a car to the electricity so the saw does not use gas.

And no doubt they have NO extra chains and NO chain oil except 2 oz in the saw box.

>>> Phase FEMA out relentlessly while states ramp up their own much better systems. <<<


14 posted on 10/08/2024 8:52:01 PM PDT by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communifascism!))
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To: matt04

I have both gas and electric (corded, not battery). Each has it’s own use...................


15 posted on 10/08/2024 8:52:35 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Sequoyah101

>> Not really? They aren’t that stupid are they?

What are you, an obtuse knuckle-dragging repuke climate change denier? We just had, like, a WORSE hurricane here because climate change! Gas chain saws are, like, SOOO climate changey! Electric “zero emission” chainsaws are GREEN, and when you can’t charge them because no electricity, they’re even greener!

[channeling FEMA bureaucrat]


16 posted on 10/08/2024 8:54:18 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: matt04

“Electric chin saws...”

Dude, they’re called “razers.”


17 posted on 10/08/2024 8:55:35 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. ๐Ÿ˜ " - Robert Conquest )
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To: Red Badger

>> I have both gas and electric (corded, not battery). Each has itโ€™s own use...

Me too, and ditto, each is better at something than its sibling.

But my electric is battery powered — because the way I roll, your kind of electric in my hands would give the concept of “cord cutting” an entirely different, retro meaning. ;-)


18 posted on 10/08/2024 8:57:08 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick

I’ve never done it but my wife has..................


19 posted on 10/08/2024 8:58:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Nervous Tick
"GREEN" ain't KEEN!
20 posted on 10/08/2024 8:58:42 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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