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NC Families Sleep in Tents Amid Snow After Hurricane Devastation
PJ Media ^ | November 23, 2024 | Catherine Salgadop

Posted on 11/27/2024 1:56:49 AM PST by george76

North Carolina residents, including families with small children, are sleeping in snow-surrounded tents as post-hurricane recovery remains slow and federal aid even slower.

This week, up to six inches of snow were predicted for western North Carolina. For hurricane victims still living in tents, that’s yet another natural disaster. A Fox News reporter recently went down to the area affected by snowstorms in North Carolina to talk to some of the Americans living in tents. Meanwhile, the U.S. taxpayer funds hotel rooms, flights, and other freebies for illegal immigrants across the country, to the tune of millions of dollars.

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Those hotel vouchers for many people have run out, and now they are in tents after — eight weeks after this storm, and for families with small children, it is not an easy transition.”

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FEMA spent over $1 billion on illegal aliens only to inform American citizens hit by the recent hurricanes that there was not enough money left for them.

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Instead of pledging an additional $50 million for the Amazon rainforest to stop a “climate crisis” that isn’t actually occurring, the Biden-Harris administration should be rushing resources to North Carolinians trying to survive snowstorms in tents.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: aliens; disaster; fema; fjb; hurricane; illegal; illegalaliens; northcarolina
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1 posted on 11/27/2024 1:56:49 AM PST by george76
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Why isn’t there trailers there for people to live in? It’s insane they are living in tents. I’m so mad I can’t stand it.


2 posted on 11/27/2024 2:39:31 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: george76

btt


3 posted on 11/27/2024 2:56:03 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: george76

biden / harris hate Americans. <~~and the cheating of Americans continues


4 posted on 11/27/2024 3:00:26 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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article: "Biden-Harris administration should be rushing resources to North Carolinians trying to survive snowstorms in tents."

White mountain folk don't count in Biden's dystopia.

To get a buck from our government you have to be tawny, foreign, queer, or a transvestite.

5 posted on 11/27/2024 3:03:06 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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Not one more buck to Ukraine or foreigners until our own people are secure with food and shelter. It's disgusting that Ukraine and the bitty wee Z-man get BILLIONS of dollars, while our own Americans are left homeless by natural disaster. Children and moms and grannys and dads are left to freeze at Thanksgiving time.

6 posted on 11/27/2024 3:08:08 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; george76

Almost a week old, wonder if any progress has been made since?

And…

On the likely biased relief effort from the deep state machine. Recall the FEMA director fired because she admitted they passed up ruined home with Trump signs because IT WAS AKIN TO HELPING HOMES WITH VICIOUS DOGS.

No she really said that on Fox News, I saw it.


7 posted on 11/27/2024 3:15:45 AM PST by Phoenix8
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FEMA regulation blocks some emergency trailers for NC families.. Operation Helo founder and director Matt McSwain tells ‘Fox Report’ how his organization is helping families impacted by Hurricane Helene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q39SLqvI7Ts


8 posted on 11/27/2024 3:46:06 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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“Why isn’t there trailers there for people to live in? It’s insane they are living in tents.”

Go to the GSA website. The U.S. government is auctioning off used surplus mobile homes and RV trailers in the southeastern states. No doubt these could easily be towed to western NC and set up for temporary shelter.

The US RV industry is currently in one of its cyclical depressions. RV sales lots are full and RV manufacturers are shutting down factories putting US workers out of jobs. These surplus trailers and excess production could easily be used to fulfill temporary housing needs while permanent homes are being rebuilt. A few million dollars, taken from the hundreds of billions sent to Ukraine, could move freezing Americans in western NC from tents to decent movable shelter while keeping factories going.

The federal government has plenty of money and resources for millions of illegal border crossers and migrants from 3rd world nations. For US citizens, devastated by a natural disaster of epic proportions, it has no sense of urgency and a pittance of resources.


9 posted on 11/27/2024 3:57:40 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Anyone remember when a red state flooded and BO denied emergency funds but gave it to the blue states affected? Was it Ohio?

Things like THIS and in NC are why democrats should NEVER be in charge. Just look at the J6 people and how Republicans are being stomped into the ground because dems are seeking payback for our beliefs.


10 posted on 11/27/2024 4:08:36 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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The problem:

https://rvbusiness.com/officials-frustrated-with-unused-fema-trailers-in-florida/

https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1859311450826653762

https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/opinion/unused-fema-trailers-symbolize-whats-wrong-with-recovery-efforts/article_7ba527b2-3cd9-11e8-8176-d7ce06dc7cda.html


11 posted on 11/27/2024 4:10:59 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Imagine had all that misdirected $$ been properly directed to those affected by the hurricane.

This ‘scandal’ should hand around their necks like a noose.


12 posted on 11/27/2024 4:14:05 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: george76

while politicians are putting the invaders up in hotels, food and gifts


13 posted on 11/27/2024 4:16:08 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: McGavin999

This has been breaking my heart.

If possible, FR posters and lurkers, please donate to Samaritan’s Purse. They are helping people trying to survive.

And, give thanks to God for what you have.


14 posted on 11/27/2024 4:20:26 AM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: george76

Yet there are no pictures of these droves of people living in tents.


15 posted on 11/27/2024 4:21:59 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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I am sorry, I live in NC now, I remember Katrina and what I told my kids then was even if you have to walk, don’t sit there get out. If I had a family in western NC, even if I had been born and raised there, THERE IS NOTHING LEFT. GET OUT OF THERE. I would hitch a ride to Charlotte, I would get a job as a waitress, if that was all I could find, get started in a small little apartment that had heat and water. Rebuild a life there.

What is the point of all this living in tents waiting for who knows what? Your life there is gone. Get your kids somewhere clean and warm for Pete’s sake.


16 posted on 11/27/2024 4:35:43 AM PST by yldstrk
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Why isn’t there trailers there for people to live in? It’s insane they are living in tents. I’m so mad I can’t stand it.
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The FEMA trailers, hundreds and hundreds of them are sitting empty in Hickory, NC. FEMA won’t move them to where they are needed because of the lame duck administration. What the people of western NC should do is go to Hickory and move into the trailers. Overwhelm the FEMA idiots who are sitting there with all the trailers. Just show up and move into the trailers. Hickory is not that far away. Do it.


17 posted on 11/27/2024 4:38:42 AM PST by yldstrk
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So what’s with the state?

I know they’ve a Dem guv—can you imagine DeSantis being nearly so unresponsive, even in simply reporting the extent of the damage and loss?—but it’s a Pubbie legislature.


18 posted on 11/27/2024 4:48:18 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: george76

FEMA leadership continues to give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States. This is why they do not help NC families.


19 posted on 11/27/2024 4:53:49 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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20 posted on 11/27/2024 5:10:12 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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