wolf howl said:
Civilized said:
griff17matt said:
Civilized said:
TheStorm said:
Jtbridges317 said:
I can tell you this, I was there this weekend in West Jefferson, NC specifically Lansing and Crumpler, NC.
This is a war zone with no assistance at all. FEMA assistance from 10am to 1 pm.
I saw cars in trees, horse trailers washed up hills, bridges collapsed, homes that have floated 300 yards off of there foundation.
The worst part about all of this, is that Ashe county has one of the highest rates of suicide in the entire country prior to this storm, and it's only going to get worse. People have lost everything, there homes, loved ones, personal belongings, etc. EVERYTHING. I helped a women sort through her shed to see if there was anything worth keeping while her grand children wept because all of there child hood belongings and photos were destroyed.
We helped another man whose 8 ft ceiling basement filled up with water, all the way to the living space upstairs to where there was another 3 feet of water. His home that has been in his family since 1875 is gone. We were specifically told that he may be one of the folks that we lose over the next few weeks.
These folks are struggling, which I know everyone is aware, but it's way worse than anyone can imagine.
Civ and Smaptass say stop exaggerating and fearmongering...
Oh. and gaslighting!
Go show me where I said that, or anything close.
Is this you, like 15 posts up?
Storm's clear implication is that I said the devastation in WNC was exaggerated.
I've had family from Black Mountain staying with us off and on over the last two weeks since the storm. One of them stayed in Black Mountain to volunteer and help navigate for aid workers. He's seen Swannanoa and Montreat up close. He's good friends with the landscape/hardware supply shop owner in Black Mountain that's supplied generators to the morgue and the flex warehouse space they're using as a temporary morgue. I know exactly how bad it is.
My beef on this thread has been the bull**** gaslighting about FEMA money being diverted for immigrants and the government withholding aid intentionally from red counties and the government controlling the weather and somehow directing a hurricane to obliterate WNC.
I've never said or implied that the devastation in WNC wasn't as described; exactly the opposite, in fact.
DHS guy literally said they don't have enough money for hurricane season. The reason being they love to fund illegal immigrants and oops, it's hurricane season and taxpayers need help. FEMA running out of money because of the illegal immigrants isn't gaslighting, it's facts.
No, the "facts" is that you're an idiot who doesn't know how FEMA works.
The money FEMA used to help individual
communities deal with influxes of immigrants comes from an entirely different budget. Hurricane disaster relief is separate. It's not all one big pile of cash that FEMA can just spend wherever it wants.
So when Republicans refused to increase the FEMA budget, immigrants had
nothing to do with it, it was the hurricane disaster relief budget that they stiffed. Like it or not, the cost of our yearly hurricane disasters has been rising pretty dramatically over the last couple decades. And it's going to get much worse. That's facts.