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Hard Hit By Helene, Appalachians Suffer While FEMA Goes Crazy
This Thanksgiving, many of my thoughts have been with the Appalachian people who have been hard hit by Hurricane Helene and its aftermaths.
People in the mountainous regions of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee are now braving the heavy rains and high winds of Mother Nature. Due to lack of housing, many people are living in tents. Imagine trying to survive in a tent when it is around 40 degrees out, raining and very windy.
The big story on my “X” feed right now is the report that volunteers who have been faithfully showing up despite the early winter weather are accomplishing awesome tasks to help their fellow citizens. One of the completed tasks was the building of a road in hard-hit western North Carolina.
The woman who wrote about it on “X” tells it best, so here’s her report:
Lisa @Lisahudsonchow7
“A road was carved out in WNC by the West Virginia Coal Miners so the VOLUNTEERS could get supplies up to the people in Chimney Rock and beyond. FEMA came in and put up a big metal gate and told the volunteers they could no longer use that road.
“Someone tore down the gate so now FEMA is getting a contract for $280,000 to put another gate, cameras, and guards to make sure no one “trespasses.” $280,000 that could be used on the victims of this storm… Now tell me why they would to this?
“‘I remember Governor Cooper saying in an interview that the people in Chimney Rock shouldn’t rebuild. They just needed to sell their land. Who is he to tell them they shouldn’t rebuild? It’s their land. BUT THEN … there’s the small matter of the lithium. The people who own the land are in the way…The entire situation reeks of dishonesty.'”
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When I read that post, I immediately thought: “FEMA no longer stands for ‘Federal Emergency Management Authority’ but ‘Fubar Emergency MisManagement [redacted word that starts with an A].'”
Remember that the UN and the World Economic Forum are rather hot on the idea that rural areas in the USA should not be inhabited by normal people of average incomes. Rather the land should be owned by mega corporations like Black Rock, and by power players in the burgeoning “green movement.” Both these groups seek ownership of some of the properties in these regions for lithium, rare types of granite and other materials necessary to allow for our EVs and cell phones. Both NGOs are also gifted with surplus funding to help out politicians and heads of agencies behave in ways that minimize help to victims while maximizing the abilities of politicians who will help the corporate world by setting up land grabs.
Gov. Roy Cooper has acted in a reprehensible manner. He has continually sided with “the official methods” of handling what he seems to consider a minor emergency. The traditional media purports to have the public believe that as of Oct. 18th, 2024, the fatality count stood at 95 people, with some 200 people missing.
The plight of the survivors has been minimized as well. One example is how authorities have been quick to point out that those who are missing may not be dead but might have gone off to stay with relatives in other places. The locations mentioned include cities along the Eastern seaboard and in Ohio.
What authorities have not yet been able to explain is how victims of Hurricane Helene would get to such places. Up in the mountains, entire highway systems have been washed out. Bridges are gone. Additionally, authorities have not been able to explain why a missing storm victim who did make their way to another region would not make that fact known to worried family and friends who remain behind. Since social media and cell phones are now somewhat back in service, it seems that unless these Southern storm victims are devoid of Southern hospitality, the missing are, for the most part, really truly missing.
Volunteers who talked to Lewis Herms as he made his film “Hurricane Hell” discussed their thoughts on how many people have really been killed since the storm hit on Sept 26th-27th. These volunteers believe that some 10,000 people have died.
How did these people arrive at this number? Very early on, there were cadaver dogs with their handlers who worked through many hard hit areas. The dogs were said to have marked 200 spots at each community. So assuming that there were 25 decently sized communities, with another 50 some clusters of homes and businesses, the math adds up to be 10,000 people. This body count takes in fatalities suffered across North Carolina and Tennessee.
But official dumb works differently. Authorities are only counting people whose bodies allow for identification. The cadaver dogs were marking at places where the body might be under 40 to 80 feet of debris. With the vast numbers of bodies being marked, and the lack of workers and equipment to go and sort through the debris piles, it can be assumed that many of these people will not ever be located. Or that if they are, it won’t happen quickly enough where fingerprints, etc. could possibly serve as identifying markings. Should a corpse show up with missing arms and hands, dental records would normally be one method of knowing who the individual is. Only in this hard hit region, dental offices themselves have been washed away. So what then?
For whatever reason, authorities do not take into account that as the flood waters ravaged entire communities, people’s bodies were in a churning mix where semi-trailers, refrigerators, cars, propane tanks and huge pieces of homes and other buildings smashed into and obliterated the bodies. There will be many body parts that represent only small portions of the former body.
Hopefully President-elect Trump will have his say on a major televised interview and shame the lame-duck Biden administration into offering real help to the victims and the families of the deceased. The people obstructing real aid to the victims should also be shamed, with FEMA officials and Gov. Roy Cooper being at the top of the list.
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FEMA needs to be delegated to a subordinate role in natural disasters. Their primary goals should be to hand out money when needed, and to do what local emergency management authorities asks them to do (and tells them not to) . . .
The Amish sent a slew of people to the Helene-afflicted areas. There the Amish built at least 100 tiny houses, so that the homeless could quit living in tents and have a way to be in tiny but decent shelters during the winter weather.
Those victims who were living in tents must have felt ecstatic to know they could safely use a wood burning stove and set up beds, tables, mattresses and lighting. Sure the homes were very small, but a house is a house and usually always better than a small tent.
Then guess what? The people moving into the homes were made to leave by the usual authorities such as FEMA and state officials, as well as county zoning officials. The excuse being offered as people were evicted is that these structures might not be adequately built and also no building permits had been issued.
Why the Tiny Homes That The Amish Built For Helene Victims Are Not Being Used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OWWBiu0S6U
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FEMA is doing what it has alway done as far as I have known it. I lost my house to flood in 1997. I discovered then that FEMA is not about helping people. It is about taking people’s property and pumping money into the Democrat class of government / people. It is a money pump and government regulation to remove from the poor.
I have lived next to a river all my life. Every flood, I see, work with people that believe that FEMA will help them. I always tell them that waiting on government to help them will no work. Move on as fast as you can. Involve them the least you can. It usually aggravates people when I tell them that. Those that wait for FEMA or government seldom get to keep their house. They either have to sell it or the government will buy it from them or new government regulation will keep them from coming back. Understand I am not saying the people there are evil or bad or mean. No they are just doing what they think is best for them based on government logic and not on the people’s need. It is just that best is filling out forms and adding government regulations and making people jump through hoops while pumping money into FEMA connected companies.
While I generally share your attitude toward big government and FEMA, I think 10,000 human casualties are unlikely to be ignored by them. I expect a cadaver dog would be unable to distinguish between human bodies and other mammals. They could be alerting on carcasses of cattle, cats, or many other things.
In the ftermath of Katrina, thousands of Americans formed mini convoys to bring food, meds, and the very need drinking water into affected areas. FEMA had workers along those routes to prevent this from happening.
Of course FEMA “did help out” by going into more or less affluent areas that had escaped the rising flood waters in New Orleans area in order to confiscate the guns from citizens at a time when they needed them the most!
Entire communities were swept away in the middle of the night. The most warning anyone had about a need to evacuate was some 19 minutes prior to homes being knocked off their foundations and sent into oblivion. In a hilly region, 19 minutes is nothing. Even if a person grabbed their kids and dog and left with only the clothes on their backs, 19 minutes of driving might only get them a few miles up or down the twisty windy road near the home and then swept away anyway.
In some places the 31 inches of water that came about in a very short time caused hilltops to simply break off from the hills’ foundations and slide down. Homes in the path of those mudslides were obliterated too.
I have known for a fact that lies are always told abut the numbers of fatalities. Anyone looking at the results of the catastrophic tornado that hit Joplin Missouri understands that more than 600 people died that day.
We were told that the death toll after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire stood at under 6500 individuals. I always believed this to be peculiar. After all, during my first year living in the SF Bay area I met three separate families who had lost a relative during that catastrophe and its aftermath. Given that of course I did not meet all that many people during my first 12 months, the low death toll made no sense.
It apparently bothered someone else as well. This other woman went on to do some serious research and she came up with a figure of over 20,000. The earthquake of 1906 exerts now have accepted the newer number.
Some of the misreporting on fatalities is benign, more or less. In the case of San Francisco, the city fathers wanted people to re-settle the “Bagdad of The Bay” and have things return to normal.
In the case of the Paradise region in Calif as a result of the “Camp Fire” I believe some 3 to 6 thousand souls were lost. But this was a land grab on the part of the WEF Soros crowd. (Remember the WEF’sSchwab has bragged that he controls i8ndividuals in all important aspects of daily life in Western societies, which would include Cal Fire and local officials. So it is not just about my attitudes toward the catastrophes.)
Again the entire way that authorities count fatalities is about finding a body and identifying that body from fingerprints or dental records. If entire lines of cars that have been pulled over to the roadside and then incinerated along with the people inside them, there are no bodies. So those fatalities do not count.
Lahaina HI stacks up the same way. And now we have the Southeastern region of our nation experiencing a lack of a real count of those who have died.
I’ve done several google searches using ‘Amish building small homes in nc’ and it seems that people are being allowed to stay in the homes.
For the record, here in Ohio I’ve found that everything the Amish build, create, grow is first rate.
Google covered up much of the matter of Trump facing an assassination attempt on July 13th. Plus it hid the truth about Hunter’s laptop for many years too.
If you rely on Google, you’ re letting your grey matter absorb huge amounts of mis-info on a daily basis.
Does Google get some things right? Sure if you wanna know what two times the Cubs won a World series, or what year Marilyn Monroe was killed. Or populations of various cities and nations.
But for real world news, at least check into alt sources like The People’s Voice. Use other sources than what Google promotes. they were developed by DARPA and are Deep State. So see the alt explanations, weigh the Google ideas against the alt ideas and then decide.
Do a bit more research than corporate/WEF controlled Google.
Below is an alt media presentation.
Is it true? I do not know. I learned while reporting on MTBE “the safe and effective, environmental helper” back when Big Oil wanted it put in Calif’s gas supply that the news will even fabricate entire paragraphs of quotes. The news will do this to bolster whatever aspect of corporate America needs that bit of help. The AP announced that the head of the top science panel looking into MTBE had stated g the exact opposite of what his statements actually were. I only found this out because I made the 90 minute trip to Sacramento and talked to John Froines in person.
So here is a report contradicting the one you are relying on:
Alt media: https://rumble.com/v5v3guz-urgent-why-helene-victims-are-not-allowed-to-live-in-tiny-houses-they-need-.html?ysclid=m4bqgulekt945127880
A pastor describes the situation among his congregation who were, and still are, affected by Helene:
About small tiny homes being off limits for Helen victims:
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1868774534125601185
Pastor discusses the impact that his congregation deals with due to official dumb not allowing for tent dwellers to be housed in “unpermitted” tiny homes.
More reports of how official dumb continues to cause tremendous suffering for the Helene victims:
Yes one more report on how “unpermitted” tiny houses are off limits for those living in tents:
#BREAKING: Buncombe County, where residents are living in tents in #WNC, is refusing to change local permit rules to allow temporary shelters for residents to live in.
The head of the housing task force went on live TV to say he wouldn’t change the rules “no matter what…”
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1868659815414915074
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Another “X” post about how people have donated RV’s to people so they can get out of the killer cold and rain of the mpountains:
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1870525178456756305
If you do not have “X” here is the content:
Another informative post by Matt Van Swol:
FEMA seems to be very confused as to why people in #WNC are so upset about the “50% Rule” for disasters… Let me explain: a) You’re living in your 150 year-old historic farmhouse with your kids in Asheville NC when Helene floods your home with 5 feet of water. b) Now you’re living in a camper outside your home, trying to shovel three feet of mud out of your basement. c) You apply to FEMA like everyone else and get rejected 3 times, but decide to continue appealing. d) After 2.5 months, you decide you can’t wait any longer on FEMA and start rebuilding your home. e) Randomly, a FEMA inspector shows up at your house a couple weeks later, totally unannounced. f) You’re thrilled to them, stoked that you may finally get some help rebuilding and some federal aid. g) The inspector walks through your home and says, “Hey look, this is really bad. We think your home is gonna require $250,000 worth of repairs.” h) You reply, “I know it’s bad, but we’ve done a lot of work ourselves and a non-profit has donated some materials, so all-in it’s probably only $100k.” i) The FEMA inspector shrugs his shoulders and says “Ok, but my estimate is $250,000.” j) Again, you’re thrilled. You think that because FEMA says the damage is a high-dollar value, you’ll get MORE help from the federal government. k) A few days go by and you’re ready to apply for a permit to begin building your home. l) But when you try… the county says, “Wait a minute, your home is only worth $400,000 and the FEMA inspector said your damage is $250,000. That exceeds the 50% rule.” m) You ask, “What is the 50% rule? I’ve never heard of it.” n) The county explains that if the cost of a repair for your home exceeds 50% of the VALUE of your home, you cannot rebuild. o) You have 3 options: you either have to elevate your entire home, demolish it, or relocate it. The choice is yours. p) You’re in shock, you say, “I don’t have the money to elevate my 150 year-old farmhouse 5 feet in the air… and I can’t relocate it, and I don’t want to demolish it, what can I do?” q) The county says, “Tough luck, you can submit an appeal to FEMA, but until they grant you a reappraisal and an appeal, you CANNOT rebuild your home.” r) You call your friend who is contractor and he says, “Hey, I’m so sorry, there’s literally no way to elevate your historic home, it’s not possible.” Your only options left are to demolish your home and start over or pray that FEMA comes back and reappraises the damage at an unknown time while you live with your kids in a camper indefinitely. That’s why people are upset.
Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes
This is NEW: The camper behind this man was brought in for a woman who is a Hurricane Helene victim in western North Carolina. The government says she can’t sleep in it, so she’s being forced to sleep in her car “Over here in the distance here, let me show you, this camper over here last night was brought in for this one woman, beautiful camper, and the mayor who we’re going to go in and try to talk to basically said he does not care — He made the woman sleep in her car. Even though she had a beautiful camper over there”
More info: This is happening even though there is an “emergency rule related to the aftermath of Hurricane Helene that addresses temporary housing. This rule, implemented by the North Carolina Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM), allows for the construction of temporary shelters without strict adherence to the state building code through an affidavit process.“ In this video he’s referring to SB 382 which does not explicitly allow hurricane victims to sign a waiver of liability to live in homes not up to code temporarily (it’s a grey area) But it doesn’t really matter because there is an emergency rule in place, right now, that allows them to live in them “The OSFM has adopted an emergency rule that streamlines the construction process for temporary housing by allowing property owners to construct shelters without the usual building code compliance” The government is making hurricane victims sleep in tents and in their cars for nothing
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My comment: In the Ninth Amendment it is spelled out that Americans must have their human rights acknowledged and allowed for even if those rights are not spelled out and enumerated in the US Constitution. I think it is a major right to have shelter after a catastrophe takes out one’s home.I’m wondering if The Institute For Justice would march in like they often do & stop this bureaucratic nightmare!! People’s lives are at stake.
@DonaldjTrumpJr@dbongino@mattgaetz@catturd2@JamesOKeefeIII
So FEMA’s monetary efforts will not kick in until Feb 2025!!
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1875222416492023866
@matt_vanswol #BREAKING: A bombshell report from #WNC has revealed that out of the $1.75 million given by the federal government to Asheville NC for housing, emergency shelter, and business assistance… … $0 has been given to victims. The target goal to dispense funds is: “February 2025”
I just saw a “report” on YouTube about a guy who’s bought and delivered a bunch of pre-made “sheds” to the area, which are probably among those that FEMA won’t let people use.
It is tragic and sad, terrifying and also infuriating that this has been happening.
More horrendous indications that this is a land grab:
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1876351873705488739
#BREAKING: Buncombe County NC has officially confirmed this afternoon that it will NOT be waiving or reducing property taxes for homes that no longer exist due to Hurricane Helene. Property taxes are due by midnight tonight.
A group of people in Virginia have traveled south to help out Helene victims who need propane to fight back against the bitter cold:
https://x.com/JamesHu27192912/status/1880619601672962430
Anyone wanting to help out with a donation can donate here:
The Propane & Power Relief Fund
(571) 220-9757
11420 Pleasant Vale Road
Delaplane, VA 20144
Elon’s DOGE team has unraveled all the incredible spending of the US government in its Biden-era quest to house illegal immigrants. Our tax payer payments and the Fed’s printing presses helped in those governmental efforts.
Meanwhile FEMA spent months telling Appalachian region victims of Helene that no money was available for them.
This is just one of countless economic handouts that the illegals have received.
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1888943006314618977
It seems like DOGE/Trump have also succeeded in releasing a lot of relief funding that was previously tied up waiting for “research” etc.