Hurricane Helene / Invest 97L

[#FF0000]

I know it's big mean to hope people die in cases like this but. In case anyone else was as curious as I was. That faggot In Praise of Shadows lives in Asheville. Unfortunately he seems to not have died.

I understand wishing death upon one specific person but he's just an annoying faggot more than anything so I wouldn't wish that much for him.

 

[Doseferatu]

I'll make a large donation to offset this comment so I go to Purgatory instead of straight down to Hell.

 

[Seething Troon Collector]

And he's not president right now. Not really.

He should have been removed with the 25th Amendment months ago. The fact that he hasn't is a tell that the amendment should be rewritten to force the issue regardless of the political situation. I don't care about politics. Without sound executive leadership, subordinate leadership falters. We're seeing that here. The difference with government leadership is that people die. Donald Trump showed up though, that was a nice gesture and HE WASN'T EVEN OBLIGATED TO DO IT!

This is Obama and McCain going to a cabinet meeting to talk to GWB about the economy collapsing in 2008. Obama commanded the room (like him or not), McCain fumbled the optics, hard, and his presidential bid ended the second he walked out the door.

This is making the rounds on Nextdoor.
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If control isn't established in western NC very soon, this is going to spiral. Say what you want about governments, whether they're good, bad, indifferent, a lack of government will result in chaos. I remember other natural disasters, coordination happens right away and leadership is on the ground within 24 hours. The effect is two-fold: one is to give people hope and supplies and support follow. Two is to establish control over a situation. Think of Katrina when it simmered, it didn't simmer for very long and people were shooting each other in the streets.

When people enter survival mode, everybody else is expendable, supplies will continue to diminish, people will die, lives will be destroyed. Biden needs to give a fuck, he needs to go there, he needs to divert whatever resources are necessary to stabilize the situation. If he can't, he needs to recognize this and step aside so somebody else can take control and start working towards making positive impacts in the disaster zone.

On a positive note, it makes me feel very hopeful for our future that people are stepping up and giving time, money, resources, leadership skills, whatever they can, to help this part of the country recover. Americans can be portrayed as a divisive people for whatever political purposes people want, but when it comes right down to life and death, people pull together and help each other. In the worst possible situation imaginable, you really see who people truly are. In this situation, 98% of people I encounter are good, care about others, and will do literally anything to help someone else, for no reason other than to help each other out.

I get frustrated with DC, but I'm proud to call myself an amerimutt, because we show up for each other when it counts.

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

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.

I love airships but they are beholden to the wind.

a lack of government will result in chaos.

Yes. The retards in government don't care about rural mountain people but everyone is paying attention to whats happening. If the public sees lack of government aid, they will interpret the signal as everyone for themselves and it will cause more instability. Im being diplomatic here but Biden and Kamala should fucking pay attention and not brush off the response if they expect to keep the peace. Biden has nothing to lose at this point. Any inaction is just hatred of the American people at this point and I won't accept any other response. I will take my tophats & maoi heads now.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

When people enter survival mode, everybody else is expendable, supplies will continue to diminish, people will die, lives will be destroyed. Biden needs to give a fuck, he needs to go there, he needs to divert whatever resources are necessary to stabilize the situation. If he can't, he needs to recognize this and step aside so somebody else can take control and start working towards making positive impacts in the disaster zone.

Yeah, you and I both know that's not happening and the goal is as many dead Whites as possible. It's been clear since East Palestine

 

[FatalTater]

With all the rush to send food, water and other aid I got to thinking - people are going to be needing help paying for funerals, repairs to cemeteries, rebuilding homes and businesses etc.
Plus these folks have been through all sorts of hell on earth. The mental and emotional toll it's taking has to be horrific. Patience is going to be a much needed virtue.

I hope this isn't the sort of thing that the rest of the country cares about for a few minutes then forgets. The areas and people affected by the storms are going to need care for a LONG time.

 

[#FF0000]

I hope this isn't the sort of thing that the rest of the country cares about for a few minutes then forgets. The areas and people affected by the storms are going to need care for a LONG time.

This is gonna be treated like Katrina. Not by the government (until Trump comes into office, at least) but by Americans. I see people on every end of the political spectrum talking about it non-stop. It's absolutely not gonna fade away, thankfully.

 

[Bowl of Ramen]

Biden is flying into RDU Wednesday with an aerial tour of WNC. Not sure if he’s taking one of the new Ospreys as Marine One, or just visiting Raleigh quickly and flying over in the VC-25, but he’ll be there. He’s supposed to be distanced enough to not interfere with operations.

 

[MadStan]

The scale of devastation is well beyond the capabilities of FEMA. The hard truth is the cost to have resources on standby and the maintenance of those resources for an event like this that seldom happens …it’s cheaper to just cut a check to cover some of it and walk away.

You’d need to mobilize the army to deal with this on the scale that it is. And even then we can’t have the army building new homes for people.

I feel for the victims I surely do. For many, they will never recover and a good deal will permanently be knocked a peg down on the social ladder and have less the rest of their lives.

 

[Gravemind]

This is gonna be treated like Katrina. Not by the government (until Trump comes into office, at least) but by Americans. I see people on every end of the political spectrum talking about it non-stop. It's absolutely not gonna fade away, thankfully.

I actually hope so. I hardly see anyone talking about it myself (aside from a handful of people being stupid and political) and it kind of breaks my heart.

 

[Waifuwars]

Had some relatives who luckily left Ashville the day before the storm hit. Checked in on them and thankfully the RDU area dodged most of the storm.

Saw some of the more crazy liberals I know posting shit like "we must hold the evil oil companies responsible for climate change!!!" on social media while they drive cars fueled by and use products made from... oil. Never let a tragedy go to waste they say. This kind of tone-deaf BS sure doesn't help convince newcomers to your cause especially in light of such a big tragedy.

 

[beautiful person]

I thought this video was informative:

 

[AncientPhosphur]

So military is going to take over, apparently a bunch of illegals were dropped off before. Bodies getting revealed stuck in trees with the water level dropping (stuck there from flash floods), potable water is gone for a month.

Seems to be a grim picture.

Edit:

Also reports of looting and shooting

 

[Bonesjones]

Fun story, ran into a guy I know who went to jail last week. He got released a few weeks early because the jail can't feed the prisoners.

 

[Seething Troon Collector]

You’d need to mobilize the army to deal with this on the scale that it is. And even then we can’t have the army building new homes for people.

My thoughts on that are that we we have the, what, third largest military in the world (I'm using Active Duty, professional militaries as a baseline, not countries with enforced conscription and an inflated reserve force as a result, but a real, professional military). We have so much money to throw at problems that we literally spend billions of it on ensuring the defense of other countries. Fort Bragg is right next door and can deploy on a humanitarian mission as fast as the supply lines can come in.

The Army isn't going to go in and rebuild, though I suspect the Army Corps of Engineers can do a lot of the work leading the reconstruction of public infrastructure. The 82nd Airborne, can evacuate people. The US military has decades of experience engaging in modern warfare to understand how to move equipment, supplies, personnel into, and refugees out of an area with very little existing infrastructure. The entire world stopped in 2020 and no expense was spared augmenting DoD into civilian life to cope with a pandemic. The same can be done here.

It's great that volunteers are collecting supplies, flying them in, and loading them up on Robinson helicopters to deliver them to the disaster site, but that only goes so far. This is an unprecedented disaster and it requires an industrial-scale operation while operating in an environment where public infrastructure has been completely destroyed. The only people I can think of that have the equipment and experience is DoD.

 

[Nuthatches]

I actually hope so. I hardly see anyone talking about it myself (aside from a handful of people being stupid and political) and it kind of breaks my heart.

We are many hours away from WNC but many people and businesses here are mobilizing supply/air drops, donating to causes, and updating about relatives/friends. I am surprised but people here are definitely talking about it and taking action, apart from the dumbasses making it political—or using it as a time to talk about how the government actually made the hurricane via HAARP.

 

[Jump]

So military is going to take over, apparently a bunch of illegals were dropped off before. Bodies getting revealed stuck in trees with the water level dropping (stuck there from flash floods), potable water is gone for a month.

These scumbag grifters are just pulling shit out of their ass for clicks.
Soon we will be up to 6,000,000 bodies in trees and roaming haitian death squads.

Ya I am sure there are some looters and dead bodies. But these TRUST ME BRO stories and re-posted posts from who knows where with blacked out sources are not doing anything to help anyone.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

Biden is flying into RDU Wednesday with an aerial tour of WNC. Not sure if he’s taking one of the new Ospreys as Marine One,

I doubt they'll be flying him in one of those deathtraps.

He’s supposed to be distanced enough to not interfere with operations.

He'll be kept far enough away so that even the longest telephoto lens won't be able to get an image of him sleeping.

 

[Gender Fluids BLEVE]

Fort Bragg is right next door and can deploy on a humanitarian mission as fast as the supply lines can come in.

Maybe Fort Bragg could have, but that's it's deadname. It identifies as a weak dependent tranny of color now by the name of Fort Liberty, and all it can deploy is globohomo.

 

[Jump]

Blogpost by Thomas Witherspoon, who lives pretty much in the center of the devastation in North Carolina.

He posted an update. Road in to town.

https://qrper.com/2024/09/helene-aftermath-long-update-monday-september-30-2024/