Bogus! Hurricane Helene, now with new and improved Milton

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/north-carolina-homes-helene-building-codes.html

For those who want link.

 

We're getting two narratives. One is that FEMA and government responders are doing everything they can to rescue people and bring in supplies. The other is about downed helicopters, pilots without marching orders, FEMA/FAA actually playing a role in obstructing private citizens from bringing in aide, that all of the rescue efforts in the really hard to access places has been private.

The former comes from government officials, the latter from people on the ground. I don't know what's what, but I'd expect a rescue/relief effort to include a constant rotation of choppers in the mountains, dropping off supplies, evacuating the injured. And all I'm seeing is private drones and choppers.

Elon Musk and Pete Buttiwhatever had an interesting exchange over X yesterday, where Musk apparently forced his hand to allow rescue choppers. An admission that the FAA was banning them? We had private citizens flying in insulin via drones, and he complained about the drones.

I get it, that you might not want a bunch of private traffic interfering with your activities, but what about when your activities are non-existent? Doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense to me.

 

We're all shocked

 

Same bullshit stories were being told when we were having the fires here.

The local people who were doing what they could in an emergency capacity were pissed off that they got relieved when the authorities showed up. The locals wanted to do it the way they wanted to do it but the authorities have a way that they do things.

So the locals get all pissed off and talk about how the feds don't know what they're doing and it's all stupid and the authorities are screwing everything up. But the reality is that they just wanted to be in charge.

 

Chef Jose Andres, one of my most favorite people, is on the ground, preparing meals for displaced residents, rescue crews and (hear me, @SlyPokerDog) rescue dogs.

 

Yeah, I keep myself apprised on this shit. Haha. Hurricane Milton does NOT look good for the Tampa area at all. Like, this could be very bad.

 

Authorities taking over a disaster scene in order to run the operation is a totally different scenario. Once an ambulance arrives at the scene the bystanders should step aside. The scenario here is very little to no public assistance reaching those most in need. To a degree that seems far beneath their capability.

 

I would agree if that were actually happening. But I'm not sure that's the case.

 

I fucking hate these people.

 

You hate everyone that doesnt look like you