Grab a tissue and CLICK https://x.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1842243815832265201 [3:16] to see a montage of good neighbors helping out. The state National Guard has been deployed, as is appropriate, but FEMA is there for when disasters are too big for the state(s) affected. The victims of Helene are out of luck on this one. FEMA spent all its money providing free food, housing, medical care, and transportation to the millions of illegals the Biden-Harris administration invited in.
Saw these on FB: (1) The mule team had a successful day. They were able to bring mule loads of food and supplies to many residents in Black Mountain. All went smoothly, and the mules and packers are resting for the night! Their plan for tomorrow, is to bring supplies, food, and check on residents’ needs in an area towards Swannanoa, where it is believed 30% of the town’s residents are trapped and can’t get out. This will be a busy day for the team, and we pray for their safety and stamina!
(2) These mountain people are some of the kindest and toughest people. They will survive. I have been packing supplies in on horseback and I had the opportunity to visit an elderly lady. She didn’t have a road out, no electricity and no running water. She was very quick to inform me that she had a spring in the woods. She refused to take any items I had in pack saddles telling me to give it to someone worse off. Then she looked at me and said “young man I have dinner about ready, would you like something to eat.” Even when she had lost a lot she still wanted to share what she had. Makes me proud to be one of these “hillbillies.”
FEMA says it has “enough funds to deal with the immediate response to Hurricane Helene”, but wants Congress to cough up more money, because hurricane season won’t be over until Nov. 30. What they mean by “immediate” is a week late and what they mean by “response” is signing victims up to get $750 checks after their identities and losses have been verified. ::smh::
Meanwhile, FEMA has been busy, busy, busy “debunking internet rumors” about its budget shortfalls and lame response to Helene. CLICK https://x.com/DogRightGirl/status/1841904770942144869 [:15] to hear one of the people they’re scolding for using social media to tell their truths. Maybe they could spend their time listening to these people for clues about how they could do better.
- https://notthebee.com/article/fema-and-the-red-cross-helpfully-deboonk-vicious-rumors-about-how-they-are-inefficient-and-unhelpful
- https://www.fema.gov/disaster/current/hurricane-helene/rumor-response
CLICK https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1842228675720237259 to read the letter Rep. Matt Gaetz sent to Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas concerning FEMA whistleblowers who are alleging that the agency misappropriated funds in the wake of Helene, withheld pre-disaster aid, and that first responders and service members have been waiting in hotels without deployment orders.
CLICK https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1842293685834416174 [8:07] to see Glenn Beck’s interview with the only FEMA crew they could find in Asheville, NC. They only arrived a week after the hurricane and set up off the main road where they can not be easily see them. They’re waiting on the media to advertise where they are to people who have lost power. “Oh they can listen to the radios in their car.” Unless their cars are washed away.
Literally, all they’re doing is registering people who have no water or power or food to get a pittance in weeks or months or maybe never. One of the FEMA people who gets paid to go to disaster sites got defensive about Beck’s questions and said, “I’m not even from near here.” Yeah, neither are a lot of the people who have donated and/or showed up with their equipment. Do you think anyone is paying them for their gas? Or the income they’re losing?
“As millions of people in TX and LA are preparing for the hurricane,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY), leader of the Senate Democrats, proclaimed in a series of Friday night tweets, “The President is using the cover of the storm to pardon a man who violated a court’s order to stop discriminating against Latinos and [to] ban courageous transgender men and women from serving our nation’s Armed Forces. The only reason to do these right now is to use the cover of Hurricane Harvey to avoid scrutiny. So sad, so weak.”
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