Hurricane Helene

[catfish1957]

They will get around to it right after they rebuild Lahaina.   

Or respond to the mess the feds made in East Palastine, OH.

[Cyber Liberty]

Wow, how about giving them some time and see what happens. The governors are already praisng FEMA saying FEMA started contacting them even before the storm hit to get the process moving. They learned from Katrinia what not to do.

@Cyber Liberty

Read up on the local politics of "San Fransicko of North Carolina."

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ashevill+NC+politics&t=newext&atb=v389-1&ia=web

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1840433366283284881

[mystery-ak]

[mystery-ak]

Trump has just landed in Valdosta

[Wingnut]

Read up on the local politics of "San Fransicko of North Carolina."

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ashevill+NC+politics&t=newext&atb=v389-1&ia=web

We welcome everyone to Asheville, even people with whom we vehemently disagree and believe could destroy the democracy we enjoy today.

Well bless your heart.

[mountaineer]

They will get around to it right after they rebuild Lahaina.   

There were bad floods in my area about 6 months ago. There's been no progress at all for those having to deal with FEMA.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says the recovery efforts should be in North Carolina now because Florida is covered. He adds that Florida has been flying rescue missions into NC, which his state is happy to do, but it really should be the federal government doing this:

https://twitter.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1840778934281011475

[mystery-ak]

Donald Trump Bringing ‘Lots of Relief Material’ to Hurricane Victims

Former President Donald Trump is on his way to Valdosta, Georgia, to bring “lots of relief material” to victims of Hurricane Helene, explaining that he plans to go to North Carolina as well, but he first wants to make sure that local emergency management is focusing on helping the people most affected and “not concerned with me.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/30/donald-trump-bringing-lots-relief-material-hurricane-victims/

[libertybele]

What a load of clap trap.  And Asheville will vote for Harris in a month.

Exactly!!!! FEMA won't do squat. 

[libertybele]

There were bad floods in my area about 6 months ago. There's been no progress at all for those having to deal with FEMA.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says the recovery efforts should be in North Carolina now because Florida is covered. He adds that Florida has been flying rescue missions into NC, which his state is happy to do, but it really should be the federal government doing this:

https://twitter.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1840778934281011475

DeSantis comes through again!!!   

[libertybele]

Donald Trump Bringing ‘Lots of Relief Material’ to Hurricane Victims

Former President Donald Trump is on his way to Valdosta, Georgia, to bring “lots of relief material” to victims of Hurricane Helene, explaining that he plans to go to North Carolina as well, but he first wants to make sure that local emergency management is focusing on helping the people most affected and “not concerned with me.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/30/donald-trump-bringing-lots-relief-material-hurricane-victims/

"Trump also had something to say about it on Sunday, asking on Truth Social, “Why is Lyin’ Kamala Harris in San Francisco, a City that she has totally destroyed, at fundraising events, when big parts of our Country are devastated and under water — with many people dead?”

[DefiantMassRINO]

FEMA's mission is to backfill state and local resources.  FEMA doesn't do the rescuing.  It's every person for themselves.  It's first responders, neighbors, and the kindness of strangers that rescue them.  FEMA shows up later with toxic mobile homes and post-dated out-of-state checks.

[cato potatoe]

There were bad floods in my area about 6 months ago. There's been no progress at all for those having to deal with FEMA.

[mystery-ak]

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Stew Peters
@realstewpeters
🚨CATASTROPHIC Damage in Western, NC:

-100 times WORSE than Katrina

-Bodies lying everywhere.

-Uncountable number of bodies trapped in cars.

-THOUSANDS still missing.

-NO Federal Aid

-Media has been CRIMINALLY Silent.

-Death Toll from Katrina about 1,600. This will be WAY past that.

https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/1840782818214846479

[mystery-ak]

 Death toll triples in Asheville area after Hurricane Helene guts North Carolina: ‘There were bodies in the trees’
By Jared Downing   
Published Sep. 30, 2024, 3:21 p.m. ET

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in the Asheville area of western North Carolina more than tripled on Monday to 35 — as survivors in remote mountain towns described seeing the bodies of victims stuck in trees.

Nationwide, there have been 120 fatalities from Hurricane Helene, which has cut a path of death and destruction across the Southeast since making landfall last Thursday.

The rains smashed the mountains of Buncombe County, which contains Asheville, washing away whole communities in floodwaters and mudslides. Roadways were buried or washed away, leaving victims cut off from rescue crews.


Flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, following Hurricane Helene on Sept. 29, 2024.



“There were bodies in trees. They were finding bodies under rubble,” said Alyssa Hudson, whose home of Black Mountain — a village of 8,400 people about 12 miles from Asheville — was all but washed away.

more
https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/us-news/death-toll-triples-in-asheville-area-after-hurricane-helene-guts-north-carolina/

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1840846467491307884

[catfish1957]

DeSantis comes through again!!!   

Leadership...

[mystery-ak]

So many photos of people looking for family members are being posted on twitter...I am trying to repost them there....tragic...

[catfish1957]

So many photos of people looking for family members are being posted on twitter...I am trying to repost them there....tragic...

With entire towns being washed away, I expect the death toll might approach 1000's not dozens.   And we won't know the final tally for likely weeks.

Why hasn't Biden/Harris offered massive national guard help?  There probably are survivors standed and  are in dire need of help. If there ever was an all hands on deck scenario......

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1840779225365692798

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/Chesschick01/status/1840824593319411888

[mystery-ak]

JDA HURLEY, INC.™ Insurance Agency ∞
@ROMA300
WAFFLE HOUSE IS OPEN!!!  They have hooked us up and are going to help us to feed AN ENTIRE SHELTER this evening in Asheville, NC!   Just like the other places we have went, the workers at Waffle House said we have to stick together! They just reopened, and were serving with a smile!!   Thank you all for helping us be able to help others!!!

@WaffleHouse

[libertybele]

What I'm trying to wrap my head around is the fact that there were warnings about this hurricane reaching up into GA for several days and then into NC.  As this hurricane was approaching were there not warnings from the NHC or other weather sources that this hurricane/tropical storm was making it's way to NC?? OR did they not expect it to impact NC???  Possibly they knew but they may have also known there was no way to evacuate that many people in so little time??

I looked it up and geographically Asheville essentially sits in the bottom of a bowl of mountains, with floodwaters from higher elevations headed downhill toward the area. Asheville is settled between two rivers that broke flood records during Helene. The French Broad River, which usually crests around 1 1/2 feet, reached 24.6 feet during the storm. The Swannanoa River went from a crest of around 1 1/2 feet to 26.1.

All in all, yes it was a unprecedented occurrence, but somewhere along the line I would think that there might have been some warning that there was a possibility that there was going to be flooding???

So very sad... bodies found in trees?  They were either slammed against the trees from the water or they climbed trees to try to escape???

https://www.newsnationnow.com/weather/why-asheville-hit-hard-helene/

[libertybele]

https://twitter.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1840779225365692798

OMG!  Continued prayers.

[catfish1957]

What I'm trying to wrap my head around is the fact that there were warnings about this hurricane reaching up into GA for several days and then into NC.  As this hurricane was approaching were there not warnings from the NHC or other weather sources that this hurricane/tropical storm was making it's way to NC?? OR did they not expect it to impact NC???  Possibly they knew but they may have also known there was no way to evacuate that many people in so little time??

I looked it up and geographically Asheville essentially sits in the bottom of a bowl of mountains, with floodwaters from higher elevations headed downhill toward the area. Asheville is settled between two rivers that broke flood records during Helene. The French Broad River, which usually crests around 1 1/2 feet, reached 24.6 feet during the storm. The Swannanoa River went from a crest of around 1 1/2 feet to 26.1.

All in all, yes it was a unprecedented occurrence, but somewhere along the line I would think that there might have been some warning that there was a possibility that there was going to be flooding???

So very sad... bodies found in trees?  They were either slammed against the trees from the water or they climbed trees to try to escape???

https://www.newsnationnow.com/weather/why-asheville-hit-hard-helene/

Right after the storm formed, I mentioned that the following weeks news would be about flooding.  When a storm that strong and wet decides not to move for 18-24 hours inland,  the flooding is almost always historic.