Hurricane Helene

[acptulsa]

Electric cars are worse than worthless in a flood. They're dangerous. They're a liability just sitting in the garage.

 

[unknown]

Yo man, atleast leave "Florida bros" in the title with Hurricane Helene.

 

[unknown]

A new phenomena, apparently homes are burning down as electric vehicles catch fire while parked in garages flooded.

Holy damn.

 

[unknown]

 

[unknown]

The information coming out of North Carolina is disturbing, hundreds dead, bodies in trees... looting, fights breaking out over limited resources, only cash being accepted.

And then conspiracies about a major quartz production facility in the country?

 

[acptulsa]

Maui II

The information coming out of North Carolina is disturbing, hundreds dead, bodies in trees... looting, fights breaking out over limited resources, only cash being accepted.

And then conspiracies about a major quartz production facility in the country?

Quartz too?

 

[acptulsa]

 

[Anti Federalist]

Two bit, tin pot dictator bullshit

You can not hate government and their media organs enough.

You may think you do, you may feel like you do, but you do not.

 

[acptulsa]

How it started:

How it's going:

Imperial priorities...

 

[unknown]

No response on the state level, the Guard?

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[Todd]

I just got advised by a friend of mine that the only support getting through to victims is from Church based organizations. If it's private groups delivering aid, FEMA is turning away confiscating or destroying the aid. Any more confirmations?

 

[RJB]

I'm in the Appalachians. I'm doing OK. My Internet is spotty. My two daughters live 20 miles from me. Their road is closed due to a damaged bridge. I've backpacked in supplies, from food to 2 solar generators. Yesterday they put the generator to good use and were watching their Netflix downloads. When my Internet is reliable, I'll post the full story. It's been an interesting week. The local radio station is useless, and I had absolutely no Internet until last night. It's the first time I have had actual "news".

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I'm in the Appalachians. I'm doing OK. My Internet is spotty. My two daughters live 20 miles from me. Their road is closed due to a damaged bridge. I've backpacked in supplies, from food to 2 solar generators. Yesterday they put the generator to good use and were watching their Netflix downloads. When my Internet is reliable, I'll post the full story. It's been an interesting week. The local radio station is useless, and I had absolutely no Internet until last night. It's the first time I have had actual "news".

Good to get some trusted first hand news! Let us know how it's going...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

It seems to me that one of the most important things that government (or anyone) could provide would be portable water purification plants (filters, distillers or something). Perhaps truck size.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I just got advised by a friend of mine that the only support getting through to victims is from Church based organizations. If it's private groups delivering aid, FEMA is turning away confiscating or destroying the aid. Any more confirmations?

https://x.com/RetroCoast/status/1842212404689551467

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/RetroCoast/status/1842212404689551467

Please let this be true.

A tar-and-feathering (optionally followed by a running-out-of-town-on-a-rail) is probably too much to hope for.

But this would be a start ...

"People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people."
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[Todd]

It seems to me that one of the most important things that government (or anyone) could provide would be portable water purification plants (filters, distillers or something). Perhaps truck size.

When the NG conducts relief efforts water support is part of the main support. Ice delivery and bottled water. I have never seen anything like providing tablets and filtering devices, but that makes a lot of sense.

 

[Todd]

Well... Well...

 

[Occam's Banana]

When the NG conducts relief efforts water support is part of the main support. Ice delivery and bottled water. [...]

That reminds me of another example of "We're from the government, and we're here to help ...":

I recall seeing a piece John Stossel did (for "20/20" I think) back after hurricane Katrina ...

Apparently, the people down there were getting countless truckloads of donated bottled water - so much of it that they could have gone swimming in the stuff if they had wanted to. Some lady who was being interviewed said that they didn't want or need any more water, but that they desperately needed generators. Some guy in Tennessee or (ironically) Kentucky saw the interview and managed to put together enough money to rent a truck and buy a bunch of generators from Lowe's or Home Depot or some such place. (This guy was unemployed at the time, IIRC.) Then he headed down there to sell those generators to the people who so badly needed them. Of course, he charged as much as the market would bear - and as a result, after selling a few of them, he was reported and arrested for "price gouging." All the remaining generators he had were seized and warehoused as "evidence" of his "crime"- and throughout the rest of the aftermath of the Katrina disaster, those brand-new generators gathered dust, remaining unused by anyone ...

As part of his story, Stossel interviewed the prosecutor who had handled the case.

The smug prick actually boasted about how he had "protected" the victims of Katrina from the vile depredations of an exploitative "price gouging" interloper ...

(I leave it as an exercise for the reader to consider what kind of incentives were thereby signalled to others who might have acted to fill the urgent need for generators - were potential suppliers more likely to say "hey, let's get some generators down there to those people!" or were they more likely to say "meh, to hell with it!" ... ?)