Hurricane Helene / Invest 97L

[The Foxtrot]

No time like the present! Go with someone who knows and get the ratty old one and you should be decent (and sore as hell) in a day.

Nope, there's plenty of guys who know how to ride one handed or no handed who could make better use of a horse than me. 'sides, I use my bike, much better for patrolling in the streets.

It's nice to see how fast people here got together and Got Shit Done. School's out, but I see people taking their kids to the playgrounds and the two ball fields at the middle/high school. Life's almost normal, 'cept for the local cops of our town doing patrols, plus militia guys on foot/bike/horseback.

Some of the people in the back end of town, out in the sticks, got relocated to our big church in downtown since power's still out in the backroads parts. Thank God nobody's actually died, we have a lot of elderly people and some of them have cancer and are practically infirm.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Fake and gay

Who said we're Ukrainians dropping 500 pound bombs? 5 mortar shells from a fireworks stand make great 'presents'.
ok, one retard firing a Uzi and 3 others pointing is a stretch for 'AA fire', but those weren't paintballs.

On that note, a kind word to anyone filming obviously illegal activities: don't be spotted. No amount of evidence gathering is having to do evasive GTA driving through a disaster drone.

I really wish I'd learned to ride a horse, because most of the farmers are loaning their horses and mules out for riding and hauling.

Speaking from literally painful experience...don't be too jealous. There are good reasons that civilization switched to mechanical transport. Horses are expensive as fuck to keep even if they stand around doing fuck-all for a month, and when they get sick or break their leg stepping in a gopher hole you're out of a 'ride' for as long as it takes them to get better.

And you can wake up one morning to find that the gentle pony your kid loves to ride suddenly is trying to kick you like a soccer ball for no obvious reason, at which point getting the work done that you NEED to get done can be a matter of life or death.

 

[msd]

If I could send you guys mail order boxes of bullets I would, God knows we got plenty to spare.

But I reckon UPS will be having a ton of bullets being shipped to NC

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Interstate 40 is going to be closed for months if not years.

There was that whiny engineer on youtube saying the same thing about the Teton Pass highway when it slipped several hundred feet down the mountain. It reopened in 90 days. Is it perfect? No. Can people commute from Driggs to Jackson without it taking 3 hours? Yes. If the federal government can just play bag man and stay out of it it'll be fixed quickly

Isn’t this what FEMA is for? Water is critical. ‘Yeah just go somewhere else for an unspecified time we have no plans to sort it out’ is not an acceptable response. The government wants you dependent on it but then it provides no help.

90% of FEMA is middle mangers. It really should be FMMA. They have very little ability to accomplish anything themselves and they mostly ignore the emergent part too.

I really wish I'd learned to ride a horse, because most of the farmers are loaning their horses and mules out for riding and hauling.

Help somebody get horses ready and/or put away and make sure you like being around them first. Now is definitely not the time to learn, just a few hours in a saddle if you've never done it before will make you acutely aware of muscles you didn't know you had.

We really do need to bring airships back. The ability cheaply and efficiently airdrop a container ship's load of relief supplies anywhere in the world is something that is sorely lacking.

The Goodyear blimp has a payload capacity of 4,200lbs. The sling load capacity for a MD-530(little bird helicopter) is 3.750lbs.

 

[The Foxtrot]

Speaking from literally painful experience...don't be too jealous. There are good reasons that civilization switched to mechanical transport. Horses are expensive as fuck to keep even if they stand around doing fuck-all for a month, and when they get sick or break their leg stepping in a gopher hole you're out of a 'ride' for as long as it takes them to get better.

And you can wake up one morning to find that the gentle pony your kid loves to ride suddenly is trying to kick you like a soccer ball for no obvious reason, at which point getting the work done that you NEED to get done can be a matter of life or death.

I've never trusted horses, even though every horse I've ever been near instantly took a liking to me.

Help somebody get horses ready and/or put away and make sure you like being around them first. Now is definitely not the time to learn, just a few hours in a saddle if you've never done it before will make you acutely aware of muscles you didn't know you had.

I did spend a summer helping out one of the ranches around here for a high school project. I "have" been in the saddle before, but someone else was guiding the horse. I hated the smell of horseshit and I hated the idea of relying on something that could buck you off and trample you to death.

Still, for the guys who know how to ride, they've been insanely helpful. One of our farmers actually has some old wagons that we've been using too. One of which was literally pulled out of the town's museum. And all of this is us trying to cut down on fuel use as much as possible. We save chainsaws for the bigger trees, and use axes for the smaller ones, or ones that fell down in less important areas.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

break their leg stepping in a gopher hole you're out of a 'ride' for as long as it takes them to get better.

You euthanize a horse that breaks its leg and enjoy 700lbs of horse meat. They can't recover.

And you can wake up one morning to find that the gentle pony your kid loves to ride suddenly is trying to kick you like a soccer ball for no obvious reason, at which point getting the work done that you NEED to get done can be a matter of life or death.

It's also hard for them in a disaster-struck area because horses are so flighty, they get spooked by anything, even a weird shadow or tree stump. They probably won't be so steady now.

 

[LactoseTolerantAppleSpinr]

Would it be bad to say that I'm honestly somewhat glad this happened? My town didn't get nearly as badly hit as Asheville (although it's still REALLY bad.) or somewhere near that, but the infrastructure surrounding us has been completely destroyed. But what this means is that the gentrification of my town by city slickers has probably been delayed by 10 odd years. I get to skin squirrels and boil them in peace for another 10 years.

It's also hard for them in a disaster-struck area because horses are so flighty, they get spooked by anything, even a weird shadow or tree stump. They probably won't be so steady now.

I've never understood the need for horses in situations like this. Just use a bike, gas is being rationed and you aint dead yet. So get off your ass and propel yourself with whatever you had for breakfast this mourn.

 

[The Foxtrot]

Would it be bad to say that I'm honestly somewhat glad this happened? My town didn't get nearly as badly hit as Asheville (although it's still REALLY bad.) or somewhere near that, but the infrastructure surrounding us has been completely destroyed. But what this means is that the gentrification of my town by city slickers has probably been delayed by 10 odd years. I get to skin squirrels and boil them in peace for another 10 years.

Yes, it's bad. And you haven't been saved a goddamn bit, you'll be even more fucked just a few months from now when your town is either abandoned outright or those city slickers flock there looking for refuge.

I've never understood the need for horses in situations like this. Just use a bike, gas is being rationed and you aint dead yet.

Yes, and we can make that gas last a lot longer by telling people to stay home and not burn out gas if they possibly can since, y'know, we don't know when the fuel trucks will come back.

So get off your ass and propel yourself with whatever you had for breakfast this mourn.

We're doing that too. But everyone's eating smaller portions and some of us (like yours truly) are skipping lunch entirely to make the food supply last longer, because, y'know, we don't know when the grocery store trucks are coming back either.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

https://x.com/annajanejoyner/status/1840201127238795322

https://x.com/annajanejoyner

 

[one man party]

Would it be bad to say that I'm honestly somewhat glad this happened? My town didn't get nearly as badly hit as Asheville

Yes, that's a terrible thing to say. Count your blessings and go be useful to someone that lost everything.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Yes, that's a terrible thing to say. Count your blessings and go be useful to someone that lost everything.

And people coming in to take over don’t care if they’re spending a quarter million dollars to buy a house or they’re spending a quarter million dollars to build one.

 

[FatalTater]

Helpful YouTuber Pinball Preparedness has opinions about the government's responses, and has info on helping.

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=l27P4yGlJTQ

 

[ZeCommissar]

The place I live got hit bad, but not too bad compared to the surrounding counties. The worst we had here was power outage for about 4-6 days depending on where you live in town, fallen trees and the works. I had to throw away most of my food that I couldn't fit into my emergency coolers, but honestly besides my worksite being destroyed and power being gone for 5 days I thankfully have gotten away from all of this without suffering much. Luckily none of the major roads leading into our town from the east or south got destroyed like the ones in the mountains, and they just cleared the northern one so we have gas trucks and supplies coming through here. I don't even want to imagine what its like in Trasheville and the other mountain counties. Luckily one of my boys and his family up in one of the mountain towns is fine, well about as fine as he could be right now.

Despite all of this people are STILL acting like niggers, especially at the gas stations. We've had 2 different reports of some mongoloids flashing firearms at gas stations nearby. So if that's the case here then Asheville and surrounding areas must be fucking Mad Max.

I also visited Chimney rock many times a few years back. The fact that its just....completely gone still doesn't feel real to me. I'm glad I made the memories when I did, but honestly I truly wonder if the town could even recover from this.

Stay safe southern bros, hopefully the roughest times are behind us.

 

[#FF0000]

Landslides will continue in western NC.

 

[The Foxtrot]

Despite all of this people are STILL acting like niggers, especially at the gas stations. We've had 2 different reports of some mongoloids flashing firearms at gas stations nearby. So if that's the case here then Asheville and surrounding areas must be fucking Mad Max.

Yeah, we've managed to keep the niggershit contained so far, but we're worried about what'll happen if enough of those feral retards get organized.

I also visited Chimney rock many times a few years back. The fact that its just....completely gone still doesn't feel real to me. I'm glad I made the memories when I did, but honestly I truly wonder if the town could even recover from this.

Probably not, and that is a goddamn shame. So many beautiful little towns, centuries of history dating from the first settlers...and now it's wiped away forever. I don't think those towns will recover.

Stay safe southern bros, hopefully the roughest times are behind us.

Sadly I think the roughest times are still ahead.

 

[Velanna]

It's nice to see how fast people here got together and Got Shit Done. School's out, but I see people taking their kids to the playgrounds and the two ball fields at the middle/high school. Life's almost normal, 'cept for the local cops of our town doing patrols, plus militia guys on foot/bike/horseback.

Country folk are resourceful and go getters.i was at my friend's house during it and my husband was caught at work. They left as the winds starting picking up (he works literally down the road) and there was a tree blocking one of the roads to the house. My friends husband's response? "If he needs to ill go get the chainsaw and cut the tree up so he doesn't have to walk all the way here." There was basically tropical storm winds and bro was ready to go outside with a chainsaw. Hell we got power back on as the winds were dying down.

 

[Heather Mason 2]

Watching all this stuff live is a very sobering reminder that I should probably have a month's worth of supplies or more ready for the next big earthquake that decimates the SoCal. We may get an insanely big FEMA response but the sheer number of people who'd need help here means it will inevitably be a shitshow. A megaquake in SoCal would probably have more deaths from the civil unrest than the actual disaster though. I need to buy more bullets

 

[The Foxtrot]

Watching all this stuff live is a very sobering reminder that I should probably have a month's worth of supplies or more ready for the next big earthquake that decimates the SoCal. We may get an insanely big FEMA response but the sheer number of people who'd need help here means it will inevitably be a shitshow. A megaquake in SoCal would probably have more deaths from the civil unrest than the actual disaster though. I need to buy more bullets

Just get the hell out of California, man. That place will be an open air mass grave when a megaquake happens.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

Watching all this stuff live is a very sobering reminder that I should probably have a month's worth of supplies or more ready for the next big earthquake that decimates the SoCal. We may get an insanely big FEMA response but the sheer number of people who'd need help here means it will inevitably be a shitshow. A megaquake in SoCal would probably have more deaths from the civil unrest than the actual disaster though. I need to buy more bullets

Having a month worth of food doesn’t matter much when a flood takes your whole house.



Also a screen shot of a TikTok showing a screenshot of what’s it’s allegedly been like on the ground.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

Despite all of this people are STILL acting like niggers, especially at the gas stations. We've had 2 different reports of some mongoloids flashing firearms at gas stations nearby. So if that's the case here then Asheville and surrounding areas must be fucking Mad Max.

The Hood Huggers tours are now touring white neighborhoods looking for supplies and white women.