Where is the Army at? They have all those bridgelayer vehicles and tons of explosives to clear out paths. Oh yeah, they're busy hanging out in the sandbox like when Zionist governor Bill Lee of Tennessee shipped out some of the Tennessee National Guard two days before the hurricane!
Nigger, the National Guard is there, active military is there, the Army Corps of Engineers is there, the Coast Guard is there, everyone is there. As I've said before, everyone involved has put in absolutely herculean efforts to accomplish tasks people thought would take weeks or months in a matter of
days. More people wouldn't help. If it was a matter of manpower, it would be easy. If it was a matter of money, it would be easy. If it was a matter of tools, it would be easy.
The problem is logistics. You have thousands of people out of supply. Any LOCs to them have been washed out, and worse, the beds for the roads cannot be reused. This isn't a matter of just repairing or relaying the road where it was, because literally
millions of tons of rock and soil have shifted to alter the physical geography of the region. How do you get supply to those people? Helicopters and pack animals. There's no vehicle that can traverse that terrain. Even tracked military vehicles would get totally stuck, because you're dealing with miles and miles of off-road thick, sticky mud and thousands of downed trees. Okay great, you have the helicopters, where are they flying out of? Airports? Not enough space. Parking lots? Not enough space. You're now cutting entire new LZs just for space to land, load, unload, refuel, and have maintenance done. Helicopters are thirsty bitches, and need a lot of fuel. Where are you getting that fuel? Trucked in on highways. Where are you storing that fuel? God knows. Where's the maintainers? On site? You need to take over local lodging or set up a bivouac, because helicopters generally take between 3 and 5
hours of maintenance per flight hour. So if you want a fuck ton of choppers, you need a fuck ton of maintainers, which means a fuck ton of food for the maintainers, also trucked in. Now you need...
Are you starting to understand the absolute logistics clusterfuck we find ourselves in? Every person is a mouth to feed, refugee, survivor, resident, or rescuer. Even the residents of Asheville that have stayed are arguably hampering the rescue effort because every Walmart truck load of consumer goods for them is one less truck full of rescue goods. I'm not saying they should've left, or are bad for staying, or anything like that, but I am saying they contribute to this extremely fucked algebra we find ourselves doing. Western North Carolina is consuming tens of thousands of tons of supply a day for the rescue effort alone, and adding more mouths to feed does nothing if there is not a job for those hands attached to those mouths to be doing. Ask yourself, did Cousin Cleetus and Uncle Jimbo that drove their Chevy up to the mountains for an afternoon to chop up logs with their chainsaw fill up in Asheville before they headed out? Do you think that tank of gasoline could've been used more efficiently if they had coordinated with a charity, NGO, or government organization to maximize the amount of labor and supply that could've been moved with this tank of gas? Do you realize that that tank of gas is probably being trucked in from fucking Louisiana or New Jersey? This is the problem with random people showing up to "help out," and why emergency management coordinators exist. In that area, there are precious few LOCs open, and that area is producing absolutely nothing, but consuming an absolute
fuckload, and every bit of that consumption is because an army of methed out long haul truckers are pulling 20 hours a day.
