Why did it take seven days for troops with helicopters, equipment, supplies, food, and water to be dispatched to southeast storm zones?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 02:41
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Part of the problem you point out to the agitator is the recent battle in Congress that threatened to derail the necessary $20 billion FEMA funding. This funding should’ve been resolved months ago in preparation of the new fiscal year. But rather than do that, these politicians (if I could make my written words to drip with more sarcasm I would do it) decided that because FEMA would be wiped out under Project 2025. While the bill eventually passed, the following people voted against the bill:
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Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona
Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi
Representative Byron Donalds of Florida
Representative David Schweikert of Arizona
Because of this, state and federal authorities had to figure out how to move the assets from their “normal” staging areas (blue area)
Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona
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Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama
Representative Chip Roy of Texas
I know it doesn’t seem like a big distance but when you see power truck convoys a mile or so long, followed with the necessary support equipment and personnel, you realize this is something heavily planned.
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Representative James Baird of Indiana
I lived in NC for over 25 years. In all my time there, I saw more than my share of storms. The vast majority of them came up from the south and either skirted along the coast or bent inland and then run into the northern states. By the time they got to central NC, the storms were mostly petered out or, the swung back out to sea. In the past, Helene would have tracked like the black arrow I have crudely drew
Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia
What can help me fall asleep at night?
Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri
Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina
While we really can’t do anything to stop or redirect storms (despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene spews), we can hold accountable the members of Congress who put their agenda ahead of the physical safety of their fellow Americans.
to the new staging areas (red area).
Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina
Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana
Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas
Representative Cory Mills of Florida
Representative Claudia Tenney of New York
Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina
Senator James Risch of Idaho
Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri
Representative Mike Bost of Illinois
Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
than the blue routes.
Representative John Curtis of Utah
Representative Michael Cloud of Texas
Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi
Which is almost 300 miles farther
Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida
Representative Bill Posey of Florida
SO you are now the Disaster God. You know a storm is coming so you activate your assets and move them to their staging areas. You know the storm might change a bit but not as big a shift that has happened.
Representative Kat Cammack of Florida
Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio
Helene did something unexpected: It ran right up the Blue Ridge Parkway (green arrow) and hammered towns that had never seen anything like this before.
Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
Representative Keith Self of Texas
Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona
Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana
Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska
Representative Randy Weber of Texas
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota
Representative William Timmons of South Carolina
Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
Representative Bob Good of Virginia
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho
Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina
Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee
Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas
The rest of the landscape in not exactly conducive to move a lot of heavy traffic.
Representative Aaron Bean of Florida
House members
Representative Mary Miller of Illinois
Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Representative Daniel Webster of Florida
If you look back in history, you will see that storms usually hit in the same general area and follow the same general path. So the plans to respond, assemble, stage and deploy were all built around history.
I am sure that someone, who has a political axe to grind, would say “Why didn’t they have extingency plans??? See! See! See! They and their leaders are incompetent and vote for the other guy!!!”.
To get from TN into NC (or vice versa) you are forced onto the yellow route
Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas
Representative Laurel Lee of Florida
Senator Mike Braun of Indiana
Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee
Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado
Now we have a Cat 5 (Milton) locked on to Southwest Florida.
Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana
You now need to figure out how you are going to turn them around, ship them a couple hundred miles and hope that you can find and secure the necessary staging grounds. The contacts they used to have built up over 4, 5, 6, 10 storm seasons are no longer useful so they need to find new ones.
Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana
Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois
Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
They are listed above.
Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Representative Jim Banks of Indiana
Representative Mike Waltz of Florida
Representative John Rose of Tennessee
Now, with Helene cut into a new area and at the same time severed the 2 major highway (Yellow Circle) capable of handling all the trucks and traffic:
Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia
If you see your representative or Senator on this list and you are subject to Helene or Milton, know that they don’t give a crap about you. They care more about their power and subservience to their Most Exalted Grand PooBah and identifying and destroying people and things that are “woke” than they are to their fellow Americans that have been laid low by a storm that had never happened before. That $20 billion could have been put to use in projecting and gaming the response and, among the weather games would be what to do if another devastating storm follows right on its tails.