OT: 7 Months Out

[Waterboy]

FEMA set up rescue operations a mile from our condo the next day. So, I’m pretty familiar with the rapid response to the devastation. I heard the helicopters take off and return hourly. Smaller helicopters were then used to ferry the injured and dying to local trauma centers. This went on from dawn to dusk daily. It was a pretty sobering and somber experience so it’s pretty etched in my internal hard drive.

FEMA Support Vehicles and a couple dozen FEMA trailers were staged a few miles away at I-26 rest stops for months. The Walmart parking lot, which is about 3 miles away, was staged for months by FEMA trailers with a variety of services, food and other supplies. These folks and the prior administration have my gratitude.

The current administration declined to extend matching funds and upon appeal denied further funding despite obvious ongoing and long term needs.

Umm okay, they flew helicopters during the flooding.  Wow.   They set up trailers in the area wow.  Please tell me you think their response was in any way adequate when people suffered out the winter living below wreckage from the flood and as no roads were rebuilt or other infrastructure.   The matching funds went away because money was given directly to the communities affected instead of via FEMA.  The funds were also inadequate because they were drained due to money being diverted to support the self-inflicted migrant crisis.   Nice spin on a god awful initial response from FEMA.

[JustInTime]

Umm okay, they flew helicopters during the flooding.  Wow.   They set up trailers in the area wow.  Please tell me you think their response was in any way adequate when people suffered out the winter living below wreckage from the flood and as no roads were rebuilt or other infrastructure.   The matching funds went away because money was given directly to the communities affected instead of via FEMA.  The funds were also inadequate because they were drained due to money being diverted to support the self-inflicted migrant crisis.   Nice spin on a god awful initial response from FEMA.

Actually just drove over a bridge rebuilt by the Army Corp of Engineers. Folks have received vouchers for housing in various hotels. Some have been put in travel trailers and campers. 

I’m not going to get into a protracted debate with someone with a painfully obvious politically driven agenda over something I experienced, see, and lived through daily. 

(I can almost hear the cheering)

[Waterboy]

Actually just drove over a bridge rebuilt by the Army Corp of Engineers. Folks have received vouchers for housing in various hotels. Some have been put in travel trailers and campers. 

I’m not going to get into a protracted debate with someone with a painfully obvious politically driven agenda over something I experienced, see, and lived through daily. 

(I can almost hear the cheering)

That bridge was likely built under Trump, and YOU have a clear political agenda every bit as much as I do.  I just admit it up front and openly unlike others that like to claim they're "independent", to try to convey how balanced their thinking is.  lol

https://appvoices.org/2025/01/10/efforts...-underway/

[JustInTime]

This is about 20 minutes from our condo. To give you an idea of the devastation, the course of the river was altered. 

Just heard the hurricane forecast for this season appears to be pretty active. If we get another, we’re better prepared to handle it.