Hurricane Helene

[mountaineer]

Elon Musk has donated a lot of Starlink terminals to provide internet service to the affected areas of the southeast. FEMA is trying to block him, apparently. Must not have liked that Trump endorsement.

SpaceX engineers are trying to deliver Starlink terminals & supplies to devastated areas in North Carolina right now and @FEMA
 is both failing to help AND won’t let others help. This is unconscionable!!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1842284913279586447

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
Let me know where the blockades are and we’ll have NC State Police move them out of the way.
Already did it once, which is one reason why we have an escort now. FEMA has zero jurisdiction.
Trust me. They’re not going to win this one.
3:42 PM · Oct 4, 2024

[bigheadfred]

Ian Carroll
@Cancelcloco
Remember-

FEMA isn’t out of money just because they’re funding illegal immigration.

They’re out of money because they’re funding the largest human trafficking network the world has ever seen in cooperation with international drug cartels and a vast network of “NGOs”

This is treason.

Put Mayorkas in prison yesterday.
1:10 PM · Oct 4, 2024
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[catfish1957]

Elon Musk has donated a lot of Starlink terminals to provide internet service to the affected areas of the southeast. FEMA is trying to block him, apparently. Must not have liked that Trump endorsement.

So how is this not as much as an attack on a specific political opposition demographic, as what W was accused of in 2005?

[Timber Rattler]

Retro Coast
@RetroCoast
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2h
Breaking: Reports that a FEMA director who was acting arrogant and denying aid to #NorthCarolina flood victims was BEATEN by local residents

The incident occurred 20 miles south of #Asheville

Yep, that's what happens when useless government hacks FAFO with mountain folk during disasters.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Retro Coast
@RetroCoast
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2h
Breaking: Reports that a FEMA director who was acting arrogant and denying aid to #NorthCarolina flood victims was BEATEN by local residents

The incident occurred 20 miles south of #Asheville

Nobody recorded it on their phones? Color me skeptical.

[mountaineer]

Nobody recorded it on their phones? Color me skeptical.

Perhaps their phones had no juice, and electricity has yet to be restored so that they might charge them. 

[mystery-ak]

NICE TRY, but NO: Desperate FEMA Blames 'Rumors' for the Hurricane Response Backlash They've Received

Amy Curtis
 |  3:00 PM on October 04, 2024

FEMA's response to Hurricane Helene has been, in a word, terrible.

And that's an understatement.

The Biden-Harris regime has made DEI FEMA's top priority and wasted hundreds of millions of FEMA funds on illegal immigration.

So while roads are washed out across the rural southeast U.S. and people are getting vital supplies delivered by drone and donkey, FEMA really doesn't want you to spread 'rumors' about how much they suck.

https://twitter.com/fema/status/1841965169334771722

Do your jobs and maybe people won't talk.

more
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/10/04/fema-post-on-rumors-about-hurricane-helene-response-n2401753

[mystery-ak]

Elon Musk: FEMA 'Actively Blocking' Volunteer Help in N.C.

 By Nicole Wells    |   Friday, 04 October 2024 01:57 PM EDT

Tech billionaire Elon Musk took to X on Friday afternoon to claim the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is "actively blocking" volunteers who try to help the struggling citizens of western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

"Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina," Musk wrote. "@FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!"

"Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC," Musk said his employee wrote. "We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We've deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives.

"The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own," the post continued. "It's very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough."

Musk's allegation is not the only report of volunteers being blocked from assisting in the North Carolina rescue operations. A helicopter pilot hailing from South Carolina said he was threatened with arrest over the weekend for his efforts to rescue people trapped in the mountains.

more
https://www.newsmax.com/us/aid-fema-helene/2024/10/04/id/1182894/

[catfish1957]

Nobody recorded it on their phones? Color me skeptical.

Good point...   How better to gas light a poor FEMA response than claiming crazy Scotch Irish hillbillies are attacking you.

[catfish1957]

"The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own," the post continued. "It's very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough."

<snip>. Elon Musk

Needed Font adjustment...

This from Musk...  not a Social Media hack.    This is about as jaw dropping as it gets.....   And if FEMA is getting attacked in the field, it might be justified.

[libertybele]

FEMA is a federal agency.  Give the circumstances and the supposed rumors, what part of that government agency should we trust?

[catfish1957]

[Bigun]

Nobody recorded it on their phones? Color me skeptical.

Maybe they were smart enough to no want any recordings.

[Elderberry]

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

SpaceX engineers are trying to deliver Starlink terminals & supplies to devastated areas in North Carolina right now and @FEMA
 is both failing to help AND won’t let others help. This is unconscionable!!

They just took this video a few hours ago, where you can see the level of devastation: roads, houses, electricity, water supply and ground Internet connections completely destroyed.

@FEMA
 wouldn’t let them land to deliver critical supplies … my blood is boiling …

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1842284913279586447

[catfish1957]

Maybe they were smart enough to no want any recordings.

Bingo...

[Smokin Joe]

Let's see now. We have innumerable people seeking FEMA aid who were denied immediately upon applying for help, along with other eyewitness accounts - on the ground in hurricane-ravaged regions - of how FEMA's doing nothing, but we're supposed to believe Kommiela when she says they're handing out tens of thousands of dollars willy-nilly. 

I have little doubt she is handing out gobs of money--just not in the southeast to American citizens.

[catfish1957]

I have little doubt she is handing out gobs of money--just not in the southeast to American citizens.

Some earlier comments stated that FEMA was hijacking supplies.  Hell, they might be making money as an organization.

[GtHawk]

Elon Musk: FEMA 'Actively Blocking' Volunteer Help in N.C.

 By Nicole Wells    |   Friday, 04 October 2024 01:57 PM EDT

Tech billionaire Elon Musk took to X on Friday afternoon to claim the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is "actively blocking" volunteers who try to help the struggling citizens of western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

"Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina," Musk wrote. "@FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!"

"Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC," Musk said his employee wrote. "We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We've deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives.

"The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own," the post continued. "It's very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough."

Musk's allegation is not the only report of volunteers being blocked from assisting in the North Carolina rescue operations. A helicopter pilot hailing from South Carolina said he was threatened with arrest over the weekend for his efforts to rescue people trapped in the mountains.

more
https://www.newsmax.com/us/aid-fema-helene/2024/10/04/id/1182894/

If FEMA is stealing goods that belong to others in a designated disaster area, would that be looting and it would it be acceptable to shoot looters…..dead?

[mountaineer]

Tactical Wisdom
@DolioJ
Maybe we need to start running our own armed convoys into the region to deliver aid.
The government only has the authority that we've delegated to them.
Let's take some back.
Imagine the optics of them trying to halt an aid convoy.
2:06 PM · Oct 3, 2024

EM Burlingame - 蒲 奕 言
@EMBurlingame
Future Students: So, how exactly did the 2nd Civil War begin in Appalachia?
Future Teacher: Well, you see, there was a major flood and the government wouldn't let hillbillies and rednecks go help their kin.
4:02 PM · Oct 3, 2024

[catfish1957]

Tactical Wisdom
@DolioJ
Maybe we need to start running our own armed convoys into the region to deliver aid.
The government only has the authority that we've delegated to them.
Let's take some back.
Imagine the optics of them trying to halt an aid convoy.
2:06 PM · Oct 3, 2024

EM Burlingame - 蒲 奕 言
@EMBurlingame
Future Students: So, how exactly did the 2nd Civil War begin in Appalachia?
Future Teacher: Well, you see, there was a major flood and the government wouldn't let hillbillies and rednecks go help their kin.
4:02 PM · Oct 3, 2024

Sounds like southern Appalachia has turned into an episode of Mad Max...  Road Warrior

[Smokin Joe]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-news-hosts-dishonestly-cut-off-kamala-harris-speech-to-claim-hurricane-victims-are-only-getting-750/ar-AA1rFA2P

Fox News Hosts Dishonestly Cut off Kamala Harris Speech to Claim Hurricane Victims Are Only Getting $750

The vice president continued:

FEMA is also providing tens of thousands of more dollars for folks to help them be able to deal with the home repair, to be able to cover a deductible when and if they have insurance, and also hotel costs. Today, I’m also announcing that the president has approved the governor’s request for 100% federal reimbursement of local costs… Also, we will be covering 100% of the local costs for food, water, and shelter.

That is a lot more than $750, to put it mildly.

It’s more shameless stuff from a shameless network.
.

That's a load of shameless bullshit, completely contradicting on the ground (and aerial) reports.

[catfish1957]

That's a load of shameless bullshit, completely contradicting on the ground (and aerial) reports.

For those of us who have went through 10 hurricanes, I can attest that he had 3, maybe 4 lies in that stupid ranted post.  Liars like him, aren't worth the bother.  And if we all ignore him, maybe he'll get bored.

[Smokin Joe]

For those of us who have went through 10 hurricanes, I can attest that he had 3, maybe 4 lies in that stupid ranted post.  Liars like him, aren't worth the bother.  And if we all ignore him, maybe he'll get bored.

Sorry, I had been reading down the leftist nonsense on X, and that just blew it over the top. One or two lies, maybe, but I OD'd. My bad. Moderation in everything...

[Bigun]

For those of us who have went through 10 hurricanes, I can attest that he had 3, maybe 4 lies in that stupid ranted post.  Liars like him, aren't worth the bother.  And if we all ignore him, maybe he'll get bored.

I generally don't get past the first lie IF I get that far.

[catfish1957]

Sorry, I had been reading down the leftist nonsense on X, and that just blew it over the top. One or two lies, maybe, but I OD'd. My bad. Moderation in everything...

No reason for apology.  He's the same leftist dipshit that called me a racist.  That blew his credible in its entirety/