Multiple U.S. states were devastated by Hurricane Helene, who hit Florida as a Category 4 Hurricane and then dumped record levels of rainfall on North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, George and the aforementioned Florida. Days later, people are still trying to piece together what happened and what’s happening, with conflicting claims the Federal government is responding “adequately” and others saying not only are they not helping, they’re threatening to arrest people who are helping.
As of October 2, 2024, the reported death toll is 100, but there are reports of 1,000 or more people missing, and that report is from North Carolina alone. Donald Trump has toured some affected areas but Biden and Harris have yet to make appearances. Whole towns are reported wiped out, but many have already pledged to rebuild.
Whistleblowers Allege FEMA Wasted Taxpayer Funds, Left Local Responders Without Deployment Orders– wltreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
According to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), whistleblowers alleged that FEMA has wasted taxpayer dollars, misappropriated funds, and left local responders without deployment orders in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
The Florida congressman described the whistleblower allegations in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“FEMA whistleblowers allege agency misappropriated funds amid Hurricane Helene disaster, withheld pre-disaster aid, and left first responders and service members waiting in hotels without deployment orders,” Benny Johnson wrote.
BREAKING: FEMA whistleblowers allege agency misappropriated funds amid Hurricane Helene disaster, withheld pre-disaster aid, and left first responders and service members waiting in hotels without deployment orders pic.twitter.com/HFSZS6CO1o
Yesterday, you stated that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is a part of your department, “does not have enough funds to make it through the [hurricane] season.” This news comes after FEMA has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on migrants due to Border Czar Kamala Harris’ open border instead of prioritizing funding for Americans impacted by disasters.
My office has been in contact with whistleblowers in numerous emergency-management functions at the federal, state, and local levels, and they all point to the same critical mismanagement issues. FEMA has wasted taxpayer funds, misappropriated funds, and left other federal, state, and local responders without deployment orders on the ground. As reported and further confirmed by my office, hundreds, if not thousands of service members were deployed by the Department of Defense to North Carolina and have sat idle, waiting for FEMA. We have confirmed FEMA employees deployed, on the clock, awaiting orders in hotels. FEMA pre-disaster aid was withheld, exacerbating the emergency. It is also public that NGOs have purchased airline tickets for migrants through the use of FEMA funds.
FEMA Doled Out Millions Pushing ‘Equity’– www.dailysignal.com Source Link Excerpt:
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Federal Emergency Management Agency in May 2023 launched a $12 million grant program designed to increase “equity” in disaster responses by making greater investments in communities with high concentrations of racial and sexual minorities, documents show.
FEMA’s 2023 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program sought to disburse multimillion-dollar grants designed to bolster disaster preparedness “equity” for what it called “underserved communities,” a label later defined in grant documents as “populations sharing a particular characteristic, as well as geographic communities, who have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic, social and civic life.” Examples of these groups cited in the FEMA documents include African Americans, Hispanics, Middle Easterners, LGBTQ+ people, and people living in rural areas, among others.
“LGBTQIA people, and people who have been disadvantaged, already are struggling,” FEMA emergency management specialist Tyler Atkins said in a leaked Zoom recording that surfaced on Sunday. “They already have their own things to deal with. So, you add a disaster on top of that, it’s just compounding on itself.”
Private Helicopter Mission Delivers 500,000 Pounds of Supplies Near Asheville, North Carolina (Video) | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com Source Link Excerpt:
Savage Operations Center is helping to deliver supplies to those impacted by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina./Image: Video screenshot.
As the Biden-Harris regime continues to utterly fail Americans devastated by Hurricane Helene, their fellow citizens continue to step up to help their neighbors.
The Gateway Pundit has reported on the regime’s deliberate neglect of Hurricane Helene’s victims while passing out billions of dollars to illegal aliens straight from FEMA’s budget while offering a paltry $750 to American citizens.
Adam Smith was concerned when he was unable to contact his daughter and her mother after the hurricane. He told WRAL News that he drove 18 hours from Texas and finally reached them using a private helicopter.
After reuniting with his family, Smith organized a private helicopter mission, Savage Operations Center, to deploy privately owned helicopters and volunteer pilots to deliver aid to those trapped and isolated in the mountains of North Carolina.
Smith told WRAL News he started the operation when he couldn’t get in touch with his daughter and her mother. He drove 18 hours from Texas to find his family, ultimately getting on a private helicopter to be reunited with them.
Using privately-owned helicopters and volunteer pilots, Savage Operations is using 150 volunteers to deliver supplies to people trapped and isolated in the mountains. Already 500,000 pounds of supplies have been delivered.
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Thirty helicopters touched down in a single day this week to deliver food, water and supplies.
“We didn’t answer”: DeSantis refuses to take calls from Kamala Harris as another hurricane looms– www.salon.com Source Link Excerpt:
Despite his state dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and anticipating yet another devastating storm, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won’t answer calls from Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss federal relief efforts, purportedly believing that the calls “seemed political,” NBC News reported.
“Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer,” a DeSantis aide told the outlet.
DeSantis also missed a call from President Joe Biden because he was on a plane. He also did not attend a post-hurricane meeting held by Biden in Northern Florida, despite being invited. He has spoken with FEMA director Deanne Criswell, NBC reported.
“It’s up to him if he wants to respond to us or not,” White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press conference Monday. “But what we’re doing is we’re working with state and local officials to make sure we are ready to be there for the communities that are going to be impacted. We are doing the job.”
Disaster Relief No Longer About Emergency Response, It’s About ‘Disaster Equity’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com Source Link Excerpt:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is supposed to be the government’s premier emergency relief organization in times of disaster, like the situation now faced by victims of Hurricane Helene’s aftermath in North Carolina and Tennessee.
But according to the FEMA website, the agency now places higher priority on instituting Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity guidelines than on easing the suffering of Americans displaced by disaster.
We just released our 2022-2026 Strategic Plan.
“We will remain focused on increasing equity in our programs & policies, leading resilience in a changing climate and strengthening the emergency management workforce.”– @FEMA_Deanne
THOUSANDS FEARED DEAD IN NORTH CAROLINA ALONE AFTER HELENE HITS – More than two weeks after Hurricane Helene first hit American soil, residents in North Carolina are not only still counting their dead, but they’re also still finding them, and the morgues are overrun, so family backyards are becoming graveyards.
One North Carolina official quoted by the Spectator, said, “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. People are starting to bury them in their yards because they have no place to put them.”
10-07-2024
FEMA’S ANTI-DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN IS DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN DENYING MILLIONS SPENT FUNDING PLANVASION – The captured anti-American Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is spreading disinformation to attack truth by calling truth a lie. The agency, through Homeland Security Secretary Alehandro Mayorkas (one of the main engineers and executioners of the illegal Plandemic campaign currently being conducted the Democratic Party) claimed they weren’t funding illegal aliens after he said “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season. We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,”
The government’s own FEMA website, however destroys their efforts to spread fake news intended to incite violence against the victims of Hurricane Helene now claiming FEMA isn’t doing anything to help them (and is actually blocking aid and relief), stating they have spent more than $1 billion funding their “Shelter and Services Program,” a program designed to fund illegal aliens’ travel to America, as well as fund their “stay.”
The purpose is as plain as the nose on your face, to fund an illegal Planvasion intended to destroy the American Republic from within. From the website:
“The Shelter and Services Program (SSP) is administered by the FEMA in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). SSP provides financial support to non-federal entities to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The intent is to support CBP in the safe, orderly and humane release of noncitizen migrants from short-term holding facilities.”
10-03-2024
THANKS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FUNDING, FEMA WARNS HURRICANE FUNDS ARE TAPPED – Anti-Americanist Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas released a chilling message this week that claims FEMA’s emergency hurricane fund is tapped after Hurricane Helene. Mayorkas told reporters “We are meeting immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds.”
As Mayorkas makes this assertion, reports of FEMA spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fly illegal aliens to various parts of the country, then fund their stay, are causing Americans to question if the Harris administration intentionally denuded America’s crisis emergency fund to not only fund her planvasion, but to further sabotage America.
Kamala Harris Announces How Much Hurricane Victims Will Get — And People Are PISSED!– wltreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
To all the victims of Hurricane Helene in multiple different states…
Who have lost their entire houses…
Entire towns….
Entire lives….
Family members washed away and killed….
Kamala Harris just announced that help is on the way!
FEMA will be sending you…..$750!
Absolutely unreal:
Kamala Harris is in Georgia to announce that FEMA will be providing federal relief in the form of $750 to those affected by Hurricane Helene. Generous.
More than 1,000 missing in NC county devastated by Hurricane Helene | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com Source Link Excerpt:
“I cannot convey in words the sorrow, heartbreak and devastation my sisters and I are going through nor imagine the pain before us.”
In a North Carolina county hard hit by Hurricane Helene, more than 1,000 people are missing and 10 have been confirmed dead on Sunday. Buncombe County authorities released the tragic toll in an emergency meeting for locals to learn about crisis medical shelters and the status of rescue operations in areas flooded by the Category 4 storm., the New York Post reported.
Officials have established an emergency website to seek and coordinate assistance in finding those who remain unaccounted for. Hurricane Helene demolished the small town of Steinhatchee, Florida, wiping it “off the map” in its murderous swing through the South.
“This is insanely sad,” Olivia Rondeau posted on X. “The below image was posted from Asheville NC by Jessica Drye Turner moments before the roof collapsed. She survived, but her parents in the bottom right corner and her 6-year-old nephew drowned.”
Bipartisan group urges Congress to act on Helene disaster relief– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pleading with Congress to pass some sort of disaster relief for the agricultural sector in states ravaged by Hurricane Helene.
In a letter sent to congressional leaders Tuesday, 33 lawmakers urged the top lawmakers to pass an appropriations package “as soon as possible” to address the agricultural damage caused by the storm. The letter includes signatories from both parties, stretching across the ideological spectrum from firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) to left-wing Democrats such as Rep. Maxwell Frost (FL).
“Farmers and growers nationwide, not only those damaged by Helene, have now faced multiple growing seasons without sufficient federal support,” the lawmakers, led by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA), said in their letter. “Federal agricultural disaster is essential to help our States and our Nation recover. We urge you to work with the administration to ensure disaster relief resources are made available to our growers.”
Lawmakers left town last week and are not expected to return until after the election on Nov. 12. So far, Congress has no plans to reconvene to pass additional disaster relief.
Hurricane Helene wreaks havoc across Asheville, NC; National Guard deployed, 119 rescued– www.foxnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
As of Sunday morning, the North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) activated more than 500 soldiers and airmen and more than 200 vehicles and aircraft, including hoist and emergency aviation assets as well as high-water response vehicles.
The NCNG reported that it completed 16 air missions, resulting in the rescue of 119 citizens and 11 pets.
“Our National Guard air assets have identified people on the ground, and utilized social media and emergency calls to locate, identify, and evacuate citizens in Western North Carolina,” the NCNG wrote in an update on X.
Biden Stayed At The Beach While Floods Hit Appalachia– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Joe Biden remained lounging at the beach this weekend while Appalachian valleys in North Carolina and Tennessee suffered deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene.
As of Sunday morning, dozens had died across the southeastern United States, but the death toll is likely to rise following the torrential downpour from the Category 4 storm that smashed into the Big Bend of Florida on Thursday.
Biden’s public schedule had him depart for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Friday, the day after the hurricane’s initial landfall. He was initially expected to be there through late Sunday evening, but the president reportedly returned to Washington earlier on Sunday as tensions escalate in the Middle East.
Floodwaters almost completely isolated the North Carolina city of Asheville from the outside world, breaking roads and knocking out power and cell service. State officials are scrambling to airlift supplies into the region. Ryan Cole, the assistant director for emergency services in Buncombe County, said the “Biblical” flooding had wrought devastation in the area.
“You’ve heard us say, ‘catastrophic devastation within our county.’ I would go a little bit further and say we have Biblical devastation through the county,” Cole told reporters Saturday. “We’ve had Biblical flooding here, and it has been extremely significant.”
🚨 Asheville and Western North Carolina are UNDERWATER.
Biden’s at the beach and Kamala’s at fundraisers with West Coast Elites
People Notice Something Peculiar About a Staged Kamala Harris ‘Briefed by FEMA’ Photo – RedState– redstate.com Source Link Excerpt:
… It is perhaps with that in mind that Harris (or her handlers) posted a photo to the Twitter machine late Sunday night showing her with her cell phone in front of her, a pen in her hand, and wearing her earbuds, looking like she was doing official work:
“I was just briefed by @FEMA_Deanne Criswell on the latest developments about the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene. We also discussed our Administration’s continued actions to support emergency response and recovery.
I also spoke with @NC_Governor Cooper about the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts in North Carolina.
Our Administration will continue to stay in constant contact with state and local officials to ensure communities have the support and resources they need.
Doug and my thoughts are with all those who lost loved ones and those whose homes, businesses, and communities were damaged or destroyed during this disaster.”
I was just briefed by @FEMA_Deanne Criswell on the latest developments about the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene. We also discussed our Administration’s continued actions to support emergency response and recovery.
Kamala Goes ‘Full Biden’ As Reporters Are Forced Out of FEMA Meeting – RedState– redstate.com Source Link Excerpt:
Joe Biden was hanging out at the beach over the weekend, and Kamala Harris was at swanky fundraisers in California as people were suffering from Hurricane Helene.
But then it was Kamala Harris who went to FEMA on Monday and read from a script saying they support the people who are suffering from the storm’s catastrophic effects.
She also was there apparently for a FEMA meeting. But she had nothing to say about that either. You have to check this out — can we say Joe Biden 2.0? It had everything, from the smirking, confused, and dismissive look on the face and refusing to answer any of the shouted questions — just like Joe — to the aggressive handlers pushing the press out of the room. Let’s be real: She can’t answer them without a script of talking points, and she looks like she’s in over her head.
Kamala goes Full Biden, refusing to take questions on the botched hurricane response as the press is forced out of her staged FEMA briefing pic.twitter.com/RwDs2SoKzY
Biden Accuses Trump of ‘Lying’ About White House Response to Hurricane Helene– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Joe Biden accused former President Donald Trump of “lying” about the federal response to Helene, a Category 4 hurricane that wreaked havoc in six states, killing at least 130 people, with many more still missing.
When asked by a reporter to respond to Trump’s accusations that he’s been “ignoring” the affected communities, Biden fired back.
“He’s lying and the governor told him he was lying. I’ve spoken to the governor,” Biden said. “I don’t know why he does this and the reason I get so angry about it, I don’t care about what he says about me, but I care what he communicates to the people that are in need. He implies that we’re not doing everything possible. We are. I assume you heard the Republican Governor of Georgia talk about that. He was on the phone with me more than once. So that’s simply not true. And it’s irresponsible.”
Donald Trump is a liar.
I’m working with governors and local officials to help those impacted by Hurricane Helene. pic.twitter.com/N2rzfFEftV
Biden and Harris’ Response to Hurricane Helene Is Part of a Disturbing Pattern– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
Hurricane Helene dissipated over the weekend, but not before smashing into Florida’s Big Bend as a category four storm, inflicting “biblical” damage across the southern United States. After landfall, the heavy rains led to catastrophic flooding that’s killed almost 100 people so far. In the Newport area of Tennessee, about 60 miles outside Knoxville, residents were forced to scramble after the Waterville Dam failed.
And where’s Biden and Harris throughout this crisis? It’s part of an unseemly pattern with this administration: when disaster strikes, everyone runs away. A train derails in East Palestine, Ohio—the Biden White House drags their feet. Severe wildfires strike Maui, the deadliest in 100 years, and it takes Joe forever to get out there. Joe’s mind is applesauce. Kamala is too stupid to know what to do—and the rest of this government is stacked with incompetents and other invalids. Meanwhile, there are reports that hundreds of thousands of people in Ashville, North Carolina, could be without access to water for weeks.
Yes, this is a campaign issue because we have an administration that can’t do disaster response.
Really bad timing for such a natural disaster. The President’s mind is pudding, and he’s in involuntary retirement.
Vice President is retarded and on the campaign trail.
Cabinet members are all morons focused on implementing gay race communism and importing the third world.
The city of Asheville has announced that nearly 100,000 residents may be without access to water for weeks following the tragic… pic.twitter.com/dZi0d9NPla
Biden Treats Deadly Hurricane Disaster As An Inconvenience– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
Joe Biden needs lots of rest. Earning $400,000 a year as president of the United States is exhausting work.
And it’s been a rough weekend for Biden. His schedule had him starting his weekend time off at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Friday at 2:15 p.m., but it was 3:30 before his motorcade snarled local traffic on Route 1 on his way to the beach. Gaa! Late.
Then when he got to his beach house, thanks to Hurricane Helene, the sky was overcast, and the waves were really high. Don’t you hate when you go to the beach and the weather is subpar?
Meanwhile Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee were being terrorized by Helene. Flooding surged into villages and cities. Mudslides and torrents of water washed away everything in their path: homes, bridges, powerlines.
RNC Response
Trump Does What the Biden-Harris Bunch Won’t Do, He’s Visiting the GOP-Voting Disaster Areas They Ignore – RedState– redstate.com Source Link Excerpt:
Former President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will do something no high-ranking member of the Biden-Harris administration has done: visit some of the areas devastated by Hurricane Helene. On Monday, Trump will be in Valdosta, GA, to talk to recovery teams and help deliver relief supplies. Over 90% of Lowndes County, GA, for which Valdosta is the county seat, is still without power.
The fairly useless head of the Biden-Harris Federal Emergency Management Agency, longtime emergency management apparatchik Deanne Criswell, says she will get around to visiting the massive disaster area spanning four states “as soon as it is possible.” [OPINION: if you can’t be bothered to move your headquarters to the sound of the guns, maybe you should just pack your s*** and get off the battlefield.]
Somehow, Trump making political hay out of this is wrong, never mind that only weeks after his inauguration, Trump was blamed for the response to Hurricane Maria despite the years of neglect and corruption by Democrat regimes in Puerto Rico. See — Trump brings Hurricane Helene into the 2024 campaign.
This is Trump’s schedule and the venue where he will speak.
Here’s the schedule and a picture of the building in Valdosta. Huge cluster f*** pic.twitter.com/JFXeqUgcXt
It is good to see Trump will make the Biden-Harris response to the disaster, particularly in Georgia and the Carolinas, a campaign issue.
During a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Trump accused President Joe Biden of “sleeping” at his beach house in Delaware and dragged Vice President Kamala Harris for holding fundraising events in California over the weekend “when big parts of our country have been devastated by that massive hurricane.”
Trump Speaks, Distributes Supplies to Those Affected by Hurricane Helene– legalinsurrection.com Source Link Excerpt:
Oh, look. Former President Donald Trump is the first on the scene of a disaster. Not President Joe Biden. Not VP Kamala Harris.
Trump is in Valdosta, GA, to meet with officials, distribute relief supplies, and address the media.
He should speak at 2PM ET. Here is the livestream.
🚨 NOW: President Trump just arrived in hurricane-stricken Valdosta, Georgia to deliver aid and resources
Trump Orchestrates Effort to Help Helene Victims, Supporters Step Up in Incredible Way– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Forgiving the powerful people who have harmed American citizens in recent years will require much future reflection and prayer.
In the meantime, the moment calls for acts of generosity, which, by God’s infinite wisdom, can lead us to forgiveness.
On Monday, former President Donald Trump initiated a GoFundMe campaign to help victims of Hurricane Helene. As of early Tuesday morning, the campaign had already raised over $1.9 million, far exceeding its original goal of $1 million.
A big reason that GoFundMe thrived? The former president helped spread word of the relief effort via his social media platform Truth Social.
