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| Sources: FEMA's Failure Leaves Hurricane |
| 05 Oct 24 08:27:19 |
XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.usa.disaster, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh XPost: sac.politics, alt.war.civil.usa From: democrats@hate.america The washed-out, mud-caked roads and bridges of Madison County, N.C., the river-ravaged homes and businesses in county seat Marshall, and the desperation of the Appalachian inhabitants are all testament to the merciless destruction of Hurricane Helene. That so many remain lost, trapped, hungry, and hopeless a week after the hurricane unleashed historic rains and horrific flooding is testament, some residents and family members say, to the abject incompetence of the Biden-Harris administration and its ill-prepared Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Sarah Parkhurst, of Montgomery, Ala., born and raised in the small-town shadows of Asheville, N.C., tells The Federalist that she thanks God for the private citizens that have lent a helping hand because the federal government hasn’t. “The government is not there,” she told me in a phone interview Thursday afternoon in between taking and making calls to bring relief to the mud-buried communities in Madison, Buncombe and Yancy counties. ‘We Need Rescue’ Parkhurst said her mother, who runs the nonprofit Hot Springs Health Program in Hot Springs, has been literally begging FEMA officials for critical supplies. They desperately need oxygen for stranded home-bound seniors. They need food, clean water, and shelter. Sadly, they also need bodybags. The heart-breaking work of collecting the dead is far from over, Parkhurst and others on the ground say. “My mom said so many people are still stuck. They’re asking for bodybags,” Parkhurst said. “This is not a recovery effort yet in a lot of these places. We need rescue,” Parkhurst added. “We do not yet know the body count. We’ve got starving babies and it’s about to get a lot worse when the temperatures drop next week.” The dead from Helene, as of last Thursday afternoon, numbered more than 200 in six states. That figure was expected to climb as hope that rescue efforts would find more survivors sank. North Carolina has recorded half of the fatalities thus far, with some 60 dead in Buncombe County alone. It’s awful all over throughout large swaths of the Southeast. In Georgia, Kobe Williams, 27, and her twin babies were found dead after a tree fell through the roof of her home and crushed the mother and her newborns, according to WJTV. In neighboring South Carolina, John Savage told the Associated Press that his grandparents died when the powerful winds felled a massive tree on the property, smashing into the couple’s bedroom and killing them both. They were found holding each other as they had so often in life, Savage told the news outlet. As of Thursday evening, 39 people in the Palmetto State had been killed as the result of the hurricane. ‘Deep Frustration’ While the storm packed a crippling punch that nobody could have entirely prepared for, sources on the ground in North Carolina say federal government relief efforts in the small mountain communities have been lacking. “There is deep frustration,” one North Carolina official who works with groups in the Hurricane-battered areas told me. He asked not to be identified because he did not want any criticisms of the Biden-Harris administration to affect relief efforts. It’s definitely not the rosy picture you’re seeing them trying to create.” President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris dropped into hurricane-ravaged areas this week. Biden took an aerial tour of the destruction in and surrounding Asheville, N.C., and said the federal government has to “jump start this recovering process.” “I’m here to say the United States, the nation, has your back,” Biden said at the Raleigh Emergency Operations Center. “They’re not leaving until you’re back on your feet completely.” In many cases, sources say, FEMA officials have yet to show up. The absentee president spent last weekend at the beach as the the rains and overflowing rivers deluged Appalachia. [continued in next message] --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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