Right now it doesn't look bad for the surge around Tampa as Stinky had said but this track has been like Sybil, we should know in a few more hours where it will actually end up. Of course you made the same choice any parent would taking her out of there, glad she made it out.
Unfortunately there are some people where I am, living in 1960's-1980's mobile homes that I have been unable to convince to leave. Some saying we are protected by some Indian god because of burial mounds in the area. When I point out there were numerous burial mounds around Miami, Fort Myers, and other areas that have been devastated by hurricanes before they just ignore that fact. Going to be a bad scene here.
Are you still there?!@? I'm worried about my place flooding on THIS side... (its been a shitty morning)
Track came back north again, looks like the eye is going to pass over around 10, winds dropping down to 4 mph so I guess that's when the eye will go over, or at least what they are thinking for now
It's pretty bad here in Ellenton. Got lucky with my place, carport mostly gone, but seems house envelope pretty intact. Have someone's roof in my side yard though
Just got back from 5 days in wnc. We do a lot of driving when we go, finding hiking places, towns to visit etc. our usual track takes up from near chimney rock-Hendersonville-brevard-waynesville-mills river. That’s a pretty big area, and every single road we traveled , had damage. The amount of work to get this area up, and roads cleared, just can’t be put into words. Huge trees , by the dozens in some areas must have been across the roads. Some on steep mountain inclines. Small bridges washed out(so many already up and running) lineman trucks everywhere working. There were areas where you could see where the water came down the mountain, carved a huge trench , took everything with it. Along i26 , the rest areas are all closed, and there are hundreds of trailers , and potable water tankers. Many small towns and even a huge part of Asheville still don’t have drinkable running water. Some small towns haven’t even received help. Help they should have gotten by now. It’s getting cold , and families in some areas are sleeping in tents, living off charcoal grill. Some are lucky to be using rvs . I don’t know who’s to blame. Maybe it’s just so much that help could never be quick enough or sufficient. But in this day and age , in my opinion, everything should stop to help our own immediately. Sorry, but not Ukraine, our own! I’m posting this because the media has stopped, and only talked about the portion they wanted to. It’s not a conspiracy, there are people who have been abandoned. And it’s unacceptable.
This article may give you an idea about "who's to blame." It really has nothing to do with Ukraine at all, it's a lot more local than that. www.vox.com/future-perfect/384734/hurricane-helene-asheville-response-fema-volunteers-climate-change?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2024-11-18&utm_term=us-morning-email&email_hash=3f8470a0b9619fb7bb9f505c55ff2e777bf5f20b
I don’t disagree with the article. Only to say that most news outlets were labeling things as misinformation, when it wasn’t. It’s also happened to people who live there and are posting videos to try and show things to people. Their personal content being flagged as misinformation, or removed. There’s no way with that that terrain and range of destruction, that any response was going to be sufficient for everyone. But maybe we need a better , quicker system for domestic things like this . While directly related or not, people saw the amounts being sent to Ukraine, housing immigrants, Israel. Then they see a red tape filled, govsplained, delayed response to something like this. Even if there is a textbook explanation, it’s not going to fly when people see where we spend . Needs to be better. Thank god for the American people. They showed in force from everywhere. And if there’s any lesson to be learned from this. We are the backbone. The things we as a people argue about from the TV, means very little when it comes down to it. I talked to a lot of people from all over when up there. From many different walks. Farmers, to artsy town business owners . And the one common message was…. The news cycle seemed to forget us. So please share that we’re still here and suffering.
Far too many people try to frame everything in the realm of partisan politics because that’s what they’re told to believe. You started with Ukraine and now have added Israel when the problem and solution begin locally. If the county is not getting the job done the state needs to supply the aid. The state needs to get help from the feds. It will be supplied for a long time with big dollars. The misinformation was partisan politics at its worst. Any money FEMA may have been distributing to migrants had zero to do with funds allocated to disaster relief. Too bad some people always want to blame more than understand
Edit.. you are correct about our chain of help. I’ll just say I don’t agree with where we spend our money, and should have a better system to help in times like these
Is there even a National Guard anymore? We only seem to provide real aid to other countries for political favors and probably other much worse shit.
Elon’s gonna find a couple trillion rooting around in the couch cushions and then everything’s going to be just fine.
