Hurricane Helene / Invest 97L

[PLEASEBANMYASS]

bum **** North Carolina

Please watch your language, there are standards for civilized discourse in A&H

 

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And deep in the middle of hillbilly Appalachia is pretty much the exact opposite. Hell, it's why they only really congregate around cities like Charlotte, if they're not in a border state.

They busted 8 Hispanics for looting in some county in the middle of nowhere on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. They didn't drive up from Knoxville or Asheville, they were "locals". They've dumped a scary number of browns in rural counties across the country these past 25 years. Hispanics in my rural county (not in Appalachia, but still) went from like 1% to over 5% Hispanic since 2000. It's very true with most rural counties. Lot of counties used to be over 95% white as recent as 2010 but now are only 90-95% white. Some of these are legals (but shouldn't be), but you just know there's an illegal presence. That's where you get these faggot business owners hiring illegals and other browns and boasting how "hardworking" they are.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

They busted 8 Hispanics for looting in some county in the middle of nowhere on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. They didn't drive up from Knoxville or Asheville, they were "locals". They've dumped a scary number of browns in rural counties across the country these past 25 years. Hispanics in my rural county (not in Appalachia, but still) went from like 1% to over 5% Hispanic since 2000. It's very true with most rural counties. Lot of counties used to be over 95% white as recent as 2010 but now are only 90-95% white. Some of these are legals (but shouldn't be), but you just know there's an illegal presence. That's where you get these faggot business owners hiring illegals and other browns and boasting how "hardworking" they are.

It's true, I saw an X post about a boomer who refused to let his employees leave as the storm began to cause outages and damage. Most of those who stayed and are presumed dead were recent "migrants".

I mean sure, I don't want them here anymore than you do but it's often overlooked just how badly they're treated and exploited. Allowing them to stay just makes it easy for scumbags to exploit and mistreat them as their status is in perpetual abeyance and for said scumbags to demand the same of Americans. It is literally modern day slavery cloaked in liberal do-gooder activism, by the same Democrats who propped up black slavery because they claimed no one else could, or would, do field work (despite the invention of the cotton gin) and they were better off as slaves in America, converted to Christianity than in Africa, running around half- nekkid as heathens.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

It has been such a bad year for wasps even here. Must be a big shock to the ecology of the whole area as well.

A single yellow jacket randomly flew up to me and stung me, totally unprovoked, the day after the hurricane.

 

[Doseferatu]

Interesting.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

and the four cops that control the entire area are too busy covering up the meth lab

This isn't even a joke. Shit like this literally happens, I can't emphasize this enough. You can’t have a town of less than 500 people and a drug problem without there being something fishy going on.

 

[Michael Wade]

Is there anybody here that lives in NC or has relatives over there? I'm hearing FEMA and red cross of all things is being very anal and stingy with supplies going in.

https://x.com/MikeVonsteuben/status/1842745328530772054?t=H3m2ZUCV1GfEVvdKLucInQ&s=19

 

[Green Man]

Yeah absolutely. If you don't have business in Asheville or the surrounding area, there's no reason to be there. Even if you live there, I recommend finding someplace to stay for a couple of weeks. It's still absolutely flooded with aid workers, guardsmen, charity volunteers, and search and rescue teams. Anyone there that doesn't absolutely need to be is just someone in the way or an extra mouth to feed.

Yup, this is why I stayed away from Asheville when I dropped off a trailer, there might be open roads to get there but that doesn't mean I need to go right down the main drag and crowd things up or get in everybody's way. I learned this lesson a while back when my town got fucksmacked by a derecho, which while it obviously does not spin or have an "eye", is basically like a small category 1 hurricane. Well, in our case there were wind speeds recorded [right before it destroyed the sensors at the local airstrip] of 115mph, so it was pushing category 2 levels right then. Trying not to PL but Summer is tourist season around these parts and our entire fucking county [alongside many others] were totally fucked. Almost 100% of the county was without power for three days, we lost roughly 30% of our tree cover in the span of about ten minutes, everything was closed and roads were shut down. Well, that didn't stop the tourists from jamming in here to examine the damage, approach clearly closed businesses without power and throw a fit. They got in the way big time. Would have been nice if local news media had actually told people a derecho had come through but as usual out in "flyover country" in who gives a fuck county, nobody cares much to report on it. The tourists showed up anyway and wondered why the fuck everything was closed. One guy who was from out of town, I met him at one of the "cooling centers" where I was charging my phone on day 1 without power asked me "what the fuck happened here last night? it looks like a nuke went off" and I didn't even know what to tell him.

So I learned four things during that recovery process:
1. 100 degree heat index without A/C is fucking miserable.
2. Don't be one of those fucking guys showing up in a disaster area and interjecting yourself and getting in everyone's fucking way, do your business or make your drop and move along.
3. How to keep a fucking chainsaw running in spite of constant use.
4. Derechos fucking suck, don't fuck around if you hear one's coming, they will fuck your world up and I'm sure most people here who live in the midwest or the plains can fully agree. If you've ridden one out you're unlikely to forget it.

 

[Toolbox]

Interview with a woman claiming to be working in disaster recovery right now, Christie Thrift(?). Interesting stuff here, including claims of the National Guard marking 100 potential spots where bodies could be under all the muck within just a six mile stretch of river, but there's a lot more than just that talked about. Saw one of her neighbors get swept away with his house, he's one of the missing. Horrifying details and she seems to be pretty affected by Helene. Supposedly they didn't even have a flood gauge before this hurricane, it was taken out by Fred, which as of now was over three years ago.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Guy I know who’s a Knight of Columbus is in contact with some brother knights working in the area. Supposedly has gotten similar stories of Feds being fags. They have more flexibility due to being a religious organization, but supposedly they’re being watched by FEMA to ensure they don’t commit felony charity fraud, stalker child by laundering supplies from other groups.

 

[elrond hubbard]

 

[RandomTwitterGuy]

A few things I see, like the random shit that is made up and random fucking anecdotes.

Guy I know who’s a Knight of Columbus is in contact with some brother knights working in the area. Supposedly has gotten similar stories of Feds being fags. They have more flexibility due to being a religious organization, but supposedly they’re being watched by FEMA to ensure they don’t commit felony charity fraud, stalker child by laundering supplies from other groups.

"YEAH, SOME GUY I KNOW SAID, AND I DON'T NEED NO EVIDENCE!!!"
Man, I look forward to when random people start shooting FEMA employees because fuck tards like this sperg wanted random upvotes on the internet.

Is FEMA fucking retard, probably.

However, there is another truth that most people ignore.
FEMA has been hollowed out, and funds have been diverted from it for years.

Every time there was a spending bill to shore up FEMA funding from around 2019, it was voted down. Almost every fucking time.
Biden has asked for an emergency session to release more funding, and Mike Johnson is saying no. The simple truth is that political games are happening in Congress around FEMA. it sucks, but it is what it is.

 

[Hanamarle Bougainvillea]

Welcome to the world: Tropical Cyclone Milton. En-route to bump into Florida as a solid CAT3 hurricane later this week.
Milton is very small right now, and there exists uncertainty in the exact track that it'll take - but despite that, it's still on a relatively clear course to strengthen and meander towards some part of Desantis-land.

 

[General Disarray]

Reading more about the path this storm took and how rare the occurrence is, let me just remind some of you younger folks there was a hurricane named Erin that stalled, and then missed, NYC on 9/11. Had the hurricane actually hit as it was expected then Silverstein (who bought WTC 6 weeks before) and all the money made by the "terrorists" due to shorting airline stock would be SOL.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/503645?seq=2

But the government cannot influence the weather. Got it.

 

[PLEASEBANMYASS]

FEMA has been hollowed out, and funds have been diverted from it for years.

Every time there was a spending bill to shore up FEMA funding from around 2019, it was voted down. Almost every fucking time.

This is standard Republican operating procedure: reduce funding for a program/organization until it is no longer able to provide quality services for the public, complain loudly to the media about what a waste of money it is, and then eliminate it entirely or privatize it (and get some great campaign contributions for their trouble!).

This will happen to Medicare/Medicaid, USPS, and Social Security (which is a scam anyway) within our lifetimes.

They've been doing this with public education for years and have been trying to privatize via voucher programs.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Reading more about the path this storm took and how rare the occurrence is, let me just remind some of you younger folks there was a hurricane named Erin that stalled, and then missed, NYC on 9/11. Had the hurricane actually hit as it was expected then Silverstein (who bought WTC 6 weeks before) and all the money made by the "terrorists" due to shorting airline stock would be SOL.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/503645?seq=2

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But the government cannot influence the weather. Got it.

Hitting New York would be incredibly unusual for a hurricane with a track like this. This is a very common track which follows the Gulf Stream. There's no need to activate a magical weather control device which doesn't exist because logistics prohibit tens of gigawatts of power from being lugged around for use at will because the warm water currents and corresponding wind currents curves toward Europe.

For comparison, here's a record of actual hurricanes that hit New York in the past 150 years. 2001 Erin taking this track would have been very unusual and unprecedented. For comparison, several hurricanes like the 1893 Charleston hurricane have taken tracks that hit Western North Carolina like Helene did.

 

[Deo_Terra]

Reading more about the path this storm took and how rare the occurrence is, let me just remind some of you younger folks there was a hurricane named Erin that stalled, and then missed, NYC on 9/11. Had the hurricane actually hit as it was expected then Silverstein (who bought WTC 6 weeks before) and all the money made by the "terrorists" due to shorting airline stock would be SOL.

But the government cannot influence the weather. Got it

Yeah this is just Bullshit Erin wasn’t expected to make landfall after hitting Bermuda barring a few projections showing it hitting Maine or Nova Scotia as a tropical storm also by “stalling and then missing“ you mean rapidly degraded 600 miles from the coastline and then was picked up by the trade winds and carried North-East like what happens to most hurricanes that hit Bermuda right?

 

[Disaffected Coyote]

Here's some pictures from Swannanoa, the town schizophrenics claimed was completely destroyed and had hundreds of corpses hanging from trees.View attachment 6490783View attachment 6490785

I'm not going to claim hundreds of dead people were hanging from tress, but posting two pictures of people in a line to make it seem like Swannanoa wasn't devastated is really fucking disingenuous.

I've got a couple more videos but I don't want to upload three 5 minute videos. Here's some pictures though.


Source for pictures: https://www.reuters.com/pictures/devastating-scenes-north-carolina-helenes-aftermath-2024-10-01/

Spoiler: More Pictures

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

I think the constant: "Is FEMA fucking us over and leaving people to die." Really shows how fucked the federal government is. A part of me wants to believe feds are trash, and part of me doesn't want to believe they're that cruel.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

Every time there was a spending bill to shore up FEMA funding from around 2019, it was voted down. Almost every fucking time.
Biden has asked for an emergency session to release more funding, and Mike Johnson is saying no. The simple truth is that political games are happening in Congress around FEMA. it sucks, but it is what it is.

Interesting claim, you got a source?