The North Carolina Response: FedGov MIA, Mostly Locals and State - "Where IS The Help For Western North Carolina - We Paid In - We Should Get Some Help" - Biden: "What Storm"- Trump: "He's Showing Up"
I just donated $1000.00 to Samaritan’s Purse - they’re legit and local, from Boone, NC: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/disaster/hurricane-helene/ Long post, I've added a bunch to it so check back...
See this:
Local response:
.FedGov “response” is more propaganda than actual help…
From Samaritan’s Purse:
“Samaritan’s Purse is responding in six locations across four states after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Southeast.
Stay Informed About Our Work
Helene tore a deadly path through the mountains of western North Carolina, dumping extreme rainfall and causing catastrophic flash flooding. Several locations received 20 inches of rain or more over a four-day period. Some towns are in ruins. There are toppled trees everywhere; roads, bridges, and driveways are washed out; homes and businesses have been destroyed by flooding and landslides. Many homes remain without power or running water.
We are providing relief throughout Watauga County, North Carolina—home to Samaritan’s Purse international headquarters in the town of Boone. The response also extends to include neighboring counties in North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
So many of our neighbors are hurting. We're thankful that we can respond and help in Jesus' Name.
Franklin Graham
Southwest of Boone, rivers raged outside their banks causing widespread destruction in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Our relief response there extends around Buncombe County, which includes Asheville, Black Mountain, Montreat, and Swannanoa. On Oct. 7, we will open a third base in the hard-hit town of Burnsville, to include Mitchell and Yancey Counties, also in western North Carolina
At our sites across North Carolina, we are doing tree work, mudding out homes, removing debris, and tarping roofs. Heavy equipment is being used to clear private driveways and private roads. In some areas, we are also offering water and potable water to the community.
“Our hearts break for all those who have been devastated by Hurricane Helene. People have lost their homes, roads are washed out, millions are without power, and some have even lost loved ones—so many of our neighbors are hurting. We're thankful that we can respond and help in Jesus' Name. Please pray for these families and for our teams that are working in some of the hardest-hit areas across the Southeast.” —Franklin Graham”
Numerous communities in the rugged mountains of North Carolina and far eastern Tennessee are cut off by Helene's devastation. Samaritan's Purse is coordinating airlifts to some of these locations—delivering basic necessities to those in dire straits using our own helicopter as well as the aircraft of other organizations. We praise God that, through dozens of flights so far, we have been able to deliver food, water, medical kits, and other relief to those isolated by the storm.
We also are responding to the destruction caused by Helene in Florida and Georgia. We have U.S. Disaster Relief bases in Perry, Florida, where the hurricane made landfall with Category 4 strength, and in Tampa where thousands of houses are flooded. South Georgia was also slammed. We have set up a base in Valdosta. Our locations in Florida will close Sunday, Oct. 6, in advance of Tropical Storm Milton. They are scheduled to reopen on Oct. 11.
Volunteers are urgently needed in all of our locations. Please continue to pray for all those affected by the storm and for our teams as they serve as the hands and feet of Jesus.
More than 225 storm-related deaths have been reported so far. Katrina is the only hurricane with a higher mainland U.S. death toll over the past 50 years. Please pray for families who have lost loved ones.
Read More
Samaritan’s Purse: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/disaster/hurricane-helene/
List of groups etc:
RESOURCES
Citizens Emergency Resource Map: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2024/09/29/asheville-flooding-where-to-get-gas-food-and-water/75441687007/
Facebook Missing People Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1736857060051597/about/
Hurricane Helene People Finder Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLVNr8A6ZnkoFQMA5_0PWymWpMRGQaL5Kjp2ApFPqehF7A8w/viewform?pli=1
Road Closures: https://www.wral.com/news/state/road-closures-western-nc-helene-2024/
Ham Radio Operator Channel for welfare check relays:
https://scannerradio.app/?l=ODA3MzQ
DONATIONS
United Cajun Navy:
https://donate.thecajunnavy.org
,Grindstone Ministries:
https://grindstoneministries.com/
The Y’all Squad:
https://www.theyallsquad.org/
The 118th: https://www.givesendgo.com/118thDisasterReliefHH
Operation Airdrop: https://www.operation-airdrop.com/hurricane-helene
Mountain Mule Packer Ranch:
https://www.mountainmulepackers.com/
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Road building miles of washed out roads, delivery of generators, fuel, oxygen, evacuation by helicopter… all civilian volunteers, all self-organized, no FedGov. The below video from Gentry & Sons Trucking:
“My name is Tim Gentry, I love Truck driving and working on rigs with my son Braxton at my side! His dream has always been to fix and work on cool projects! Feel Free to contact us if would like to help in our Father and Son Projects! Email us at Bullhauler1366@gmail.com Our Instagram page!!! https://www.instagram.com/gns_truckin... Donate to hurricane Helene victims https://gofund.me/654b0c3d
and now some of my own:
“Oral Rehydration Solution – drinking plain water will deplete your body of electrolytes…
• 4 cups of water • ½ teaspoon table salt • 2 Tablespoons sugar •
or
• 4 cups water • 1 dry chicken broth cube • 2 tablespoons sugar
or
• 2 ½ cups plain tomato juice (not V8 or bloody mary mix) • 1 ½ cups water
If you have a water heater, then you have water, just fit a hose on the drainage tap on the bottom, and then open a tap above the heater to get the water to flow out. You might want to run it through a sand filter – get a plastic garbage pail, clean it out and dry it, put it in the sun to dry out. And if you have Clorox, ten drops per quart should sanitize the water.
Expedient water filter – find a plastic garbage container and do the following:
(assuming the container is 3 feet tall)
Cut a hole in the bottom and attach a hose going to a collection container – a plastic bottle if you can get one – you can use a piece of string to guide the water flow, too.
If you can find a piece of 1 inch PVC pipe, get a hammer and nail and punch holes in it, and put this in the bottom of the container, then add six inches of pea gravel [enough to cover your hand placed on edge], then if you can find a bag of charcoal, smash that up until it’s powder, add that in, then add sand up to six inches short of the top of the container, then put screen or flat rocks on top to stop the water from making channels in the sand. If you can filter into clear plastic bottles, you can put them in the sun to kill the bacteria if present:
The SODIS method consists of the following simple steps: 1. Wash a plastic bottle: The bottle must be clean, transparent, colourless, 2 liters in volume or smaller, and have all plastic or paper labels removed. We recommend using PET bottles and to wash them with soap before the first usage. 2. Fill bottle with water: Potentially contaminated water is filled into a PET bottle. The water should not be very turbid. 3. Expose bottle to the sun: The bottle is exposed to direct sunlight for one full day (at least 6 hours including noon hours) on mostly sunny days, or 2 days when the sky is more than 50% clouded. On days of continuous rainfall, SODIS should not be used. 4.Store water: The treated water is stored in the bottles until consumption in order to avoid re-contamination. (https://www.sodis.ch/methode/anwendung/ausbildungsmaterial/dokumente_material/sodismanual_2016.pdf)
Field sanitation – I wouldn’t be surprised if we got an outbreak of cholera from this, it takes water to flush toilets, and feces going into streams and groundwater is dangerous. My suggestion is to find a plastic five gallon bucket with lid, and make sure you have quicklime, or kitty litter, or dried leaves in a bucket nearby. Not sure if wood fire ashes will do the trick… Urine is sterile and good fertilizer, so pee into a plastic bottle and when half full, find a tree you like – but don’t dump it all in one place. As for feces, they go in the bucket, followed by the quicklime, leaves, kitty litter, or ashes. Long grass folded over makes good toilet paper – check for ticks – and that goes in the bucket, too. When done, put the lid on and weight it down with a rock. If you have a shovel, dig a cathole – but dig it downhill from water sources and downwind if you can – at least 30 paces away if you can do it. Larger amounts of feces will have to be buried as well – think “manure pile” – cover it with leaves and dirt.
Black Mold on wood or drywall:
Cup of Borax- can be found in most grocery stores in the laundry isle.
1 gallon x Hot water
1 x Spray bottle
1 x Scrubber/toothbrush
1 x Wiping cloth
1 x Safety gloves
Instructions
Mix a cup of borax with a gallon of hot water and stir well
Pour the solution into a spray bottle
Spray generously onto the affected area and allow to settle for a few minutes
Use a scrubber or toothbrush to tackle both lightly and heavily effected areas, and ensure all the mould is physically removed
Wipe away the excess mould
Don’t rinse the borax away, as it will continue disinfecting the area
Allow the area to naturally dry and repeat if necessary.
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“A North Carolina official and former federal official confirmed that deaths have been severely undercounted thus far, partially because many bodies have not been recovered, but also because there are literally piles of the deceased who haven’t been identified and are being transported around the state to find open morgue space. Some North Carolinians have become so desperate that they are burying their own family members in their yards.
“According to folks on the ground — fire, medical, law enforcement officials — they’re way underreporting the numbers. All the morgues are full and they’ve hauled a ton [of bodies] to Greensboro,” the state official said. “People are starting to bury them in their yards because they have no place to put them.”
Locals are “pissed” at the seemingly lackadaisical response from state and federal officials, and many are pointing the finger at General Major Todd Hunt, director of the North Carolina National Guard. According to social media posts from the North Carolina National Guard, troops were not activated until the Sunday after the storm hit. There were 5,500 national guardsmen deployed to the area; only 500 came from North Carolina’s guard.
“That’s why you saw the Florida National Guard and other units out there — and why private citizens stepped in, even as state and federal officials tried to shut down their efforts,” a source briefed on the situation in North Carolina explained.
There were six confirmed tornados across southeastern North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina on the morning of September 27, two days before the guard was deployed.
The director of the North Carolina National Guard is appointed by the governor, and sources think it should be a no-brainer for Governor Roy Cooper to fire and replace Hunt. That has not happened. The Biden administration can also supersede the state response and federalize operations. That also has not happened.
President Joe Biden was at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware the weekend the storm hit and did not return to the White House until late Sunday night. He nonetheless defended his response, snarking to the press, “It’s called a telephone.”
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Las Vegas late Sunday night and decided to tape an episode of Call Her Daddy, a podcast that gained popularity for its unfiltered and graphic discussions about casual sex, before returning to the White House on Monday for an in-person briefing.
While Biden and Harris were returning to the White House, former president Donald Trump visited a hurricane-ravaged town in Georgia.
“A certain president, I will not name him, destroyed his reputation with Katrina,” Trump said during a rally in Michigan later in the week. “And this is going even worse. She’s doing even worse than he did.”
Kanye West infamously claimed George W. Bush “doesn’t care about black people” due to his response to Katrina; now, some North Carolinians feel Hurricane Helene is an example of rural whites being left behind. More than 1,800 people were killed during Katrina; sources in North Carolina speculated that the death toll could be even higher from Helene when all is said and done. Harris announced affected families would receive just $750, far below the stimulus checks awarded during the Covid-19 pandemic and debit cards and housing vouchers distributed to illegal migrants in some states.
Conservatives have criticized the Biden administration and FEMA for distributing $640 million through the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) to illegal migrants. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted that FEMA will likely not have enough money to make it through hurricane season, but the administration rejects the idea that the funding shortage has anything to do with the migrant assistance. They argue that the SSP is funded through Customs and Border Patrol and that the resources are merely distributed by FEMA; however, migrants received assistance from FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP), the predecessor to SSP, through fiscal year 2023. In 2023, the EFSP awarded $425 million.
Mayorkas was also spotted Saturday afternoon at Sid Mashburn, an upscale men’s clothing store in Washington, DC, by Washington Free Beacon reporter Joe Simonson. “For context about all the FEMA stuff, I saw Alejandro Mayorkas this afternoon at Sid Mashburn, which is the second time I’ve seen him there on a Saturday afternoon in about a month. So, suffice to say, the guy isn’t working around the clock,” Simonson wrote on X.
For comparison, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was excoriated for shoe shopping at a department store in New York City after Katrina ripped through New Orleans.
The North Carolina official noted, “I went to ten different counties … FEMA was very limited, mostly to local and state agency resources.”
North Carolinians were further slapped in the face when during the vice-presidential debate, the candidates were asked about the storm, but in the context of climate change rather than the emergency response. And, as The Spectator reported last week, as private citizens have reported being denied landing requests for rescue operations or having their medical and supplies tents shut down, progressive groups are busy fielding donations for abortion services for Hurricane Helene victims.
Many are wondering how the Biden administration was capable of scraping together $320 million to build a pier to deliver aid in Gaza earlier this year and $157 million for Lebanon as FEMA is supposedly at risk of running low on funds; the Biden administration just announced that federal assistance for Helene victims has only surpassed $137 million, in comparison.
As the people of North Carolina and surrounding states work to recover from this mass tragedy, they will not soon forget how they were treated by their government.” https://thespectator.com/newsletter/north-carolinians-forced-to-bury-dead-in-their-yards/