I have a friend whose company supports disaster relief in North Carolina, they have assisted in the past coastal hurricanes. Her son flew helicopters in the service, is licensed to fly and as far they knew they were still licensed to operate and assist during this disaster. Her son was grounded, given the rationale that their organization had not received approval from the United Way, who is one of the NGOs coordinating with FEMA.
Fort Bragg in is the same state, they have been to stand down. We are at Day 5 and those resource - particularly the helicopters - have not been ordered in. Two days after the hurricane, the Tennessee National Guard was deployed overseas, but that should matter because Fort Bragg is the fucking state.
This government, operating actively to harm the people, dissolved the contract with us. We are duty bound to disobey it at every turn. Especially where FEMA is concerned. If you look up the law that create FEMA, is has ZERO authority to deny anyone access to an emergency area, it's charter states clearly it is an organization that collaborates and supports disaster recovery efforts. State and local law enforcement, acting on the orders of the governor have authority, according to North Carolina law that is to the extent that someone is interfering with rescue / recovery efforts. Driving on a back road doesn't qualify. And where the federal government derives the power to confer authority on a private entity such as the United Way that can ground pilots is beyond me. FAA can, the governor can, but FEMA? Nope.
The border is now closed between North Carolina and Tennessee. This is far worse than the flood itself, and more brazen than Covid. We are under no obligation to use the same system to vote it out of existence if that system has nullified it's power because they are used unconstitutionally to the harm of the US citizens. Pick any Founding Father and read their ideas about what is required when a govt acts in this manner and it's clear we're are duty bound to resist and end that form of government.
I'm a little heated because I have friends and my sister in the state, one outside of Asheville who luckily was unharmed.
You're not the only one whose emotions are riding high over this. And justifiably so.
I should have mentioned that some of the NG units had already been sent to support Our Greatest Ally. What a slap in the face, and what a clear demonstration of priorities.
I’ll be posting a podcast session with Pm, who has run assistance for hurricane relief. Her son is the one who was grounded yesterday. Prior to FEMA showing up on day three, private efforts were make good progress. Once the feds found that people were stepping on the turf, they’ve slowed things down. And I think we have to ask the basic question: who is going to know the back roads, the territories, the terrain better, locals or FEMA? FEMA should stack boxes, and watch the warehouses. That’s about it. Nat Guard and army does insertion and extraction, yet they are not there in any great number. And if the Gov doesn’t locals to help, the state of emergency should contain those orders instead of FEMA assuming authority which it doesn’t have.
Nobody is making some helicopters stay on the ground, it's probably about money to buy the fuel and so forth. The company will stay grounded until somebody cuts them a check, otherwise it's on their own resources. Plenty of helicopters are flying, drawing from other resources. I also have no idea what you mean by the "border" being closed, It's got to be hundreds of miles long through Appalachia.
There’s more fake news about the govt being dicks during this storm than I have ever seen. I have been working the thing the entire time with crews on the ground. Authorities have been nothing short of amazing (which has not been the case in the past) … so I have to stick up for these people who are busting their backs trying to be cool and help. It’s sad the internet has become such a dis info storm since the conspiracy movement got sold down the river 10 Years go. Now it’s run by fakes and frauds. Gross gross gross. I am sickened and saddened that we can’t congratulate law enforcement and people on the state level when they do a good job. I can send video and pictures to back up everything I said above …
Yea mostly state, we are working NC. Please view Cletus Mcfarlands chopper video. He flew for 2-3 days with no issues. My friend is the one who tipped him off to go. Also here is a video of one of my crews dropping supplies in Burnsville. I haven’t had time to upload a ton of the vids yet. But more coming .
I saw the interview with the couple where the wife was rescued by the helicopter pilot who was threatened with arrest. So the statement “the authorities are great” lasts until it doesn’t. Many of the people in government are there only because they enjoy the power-trip. They like to be in charge and can’t stand for anyone to get in the way of their game. And the hanger-ons are usually even worse. Pathological narcissists the lot of them.
Everyone following the federal chain of command is an enemy to the states and the populace. They are not authorities. FEMA is a foreign army. When the DOD attacked the states with the covid jabs, they violated our trust and forfeited all constitutional privileges and duties. The government entity has been in total warfare with the population since the covid lockdowns. They haven't stopped attacking our food supply or our supply chain infrastructure. They haven't stopped using forest fire and flooding to kill us and to steal our land and children. Right now, the federal entity has a population of millions locked down in a deadly situation. They are killing people. You love your oppressor and abuser to a disgusting extent, and I hope that you're a shill, because I find it hard to believe that someone could be as upside down as you are.
Again, thats a video of a random person driving in NC. All his other videos are animal rescue. ANIMAL RESCUE IN CALIFORNIA. how does a musician astrologer animal rescue guy have a "rescue team"? Do a little research.
I mean I can yes. I’ve been doing this for many years; made documentaries about it etc etc… So people who know me already know what I’m about. But now that I see blatant lies are being bandied about; I can see the need is real. Makes me sick to see this stuff
Yeah I mean we have done a lot of work over the past 7-8 years to build a sustainable civilian response infrastructure just in case the offical responses were shit. But we basically forced them to reform over the years; at least on the state level, and I’m very happy about that. I’m happy when we civilians are not needed. But we are ready either way!
I'm glad "The Authorities" have been great where you are. Bear in mind that you only know what *you* see. Things happen out of your sight that tell different stories.
FEMA confiscated supplies in Lahaina, too. Locals outsmarted FEMA by running their own boats up the shore to Lahaina from Kihei to bring supplies to those in need. The FEMA workers stayed in $1,000 a night rooms while displaced Maui residents slept in tents. FEMA is defunct, having given a BILLION dollars to the illegal alien invaders and now has no money for Americans. Defund FEMA. Fire everyone who works for it. Build something new.
The government lies about there being only 100 dead. There was supposed to be a $6 billion fund and no one has seen any of that money. Hundreds of people are still in tents after a year. The death total is closer to 800-1,000, including hundreds of kids. Fewer than 100 housing permits have been given to date for 2,500 houses that burned. Everything the State says is a lie.
Regarding the stories of FEMA officials interfering with private relief efforts. Could the local sheriffs arrest the FEMA officials who do this? There must be something they could be charged with. Reckless endangerment? Theft under the color of law? Manslaughter? Attempted murder? Interfering with official police business?
I have friends with helicopters; who flew uninterrupted for days. Not sure there is any validity to that story. At least not from what I can tell. It’s a literal fabrication for clicks…
"So when the regime fumble’s the response to a disaster, many will assume that it did so deliberately."
When you have the resources and the ability, and more importantly the solemn duty by virtue of having authority and having confiscated and taxed assets of the citizens in need, it doesn't matter if you fumble deliberately or not:
Fumbling is an act of treason against the people and a crime, period.
Apart from that, there's not much I can write that wouldn't be actionable.
I see this as the crisis of incompetence that we have here in the US now combined with greed. The Asheville area is one of the most liberal in NC outside the urban areas; no conspiracy there but the city council were all diversity feel good electees. There was little to no disaster planning. People were allowed to build in a known floodplain; see the Asheville flood of 1914. Then look at governors that didn't have any disaster planning; zero coordination ready with other states. The NC national guard should have been activated as soon as the storm track was fairly confirmed. Now the Feds roll in and start forcing everything under their aegis because rice bowls. Serious aid will now be on hold until Congress passes a disaster relief package because FEMA is broke at the beginning of the fiscal year. Christ, Chimney Rock is being bulldozed:
The mine is the only source of quartz crucibles to make silicon wafers used in modern chips. I can only go by what people are posting and sharing on X but the media is definitely sugar-coating the whole situation.
That emerging "parallel polis" in the wake of a withered, degraded and decadent state is par for the course in countries like South Africa. I wrote here awhile back that if Harris is installed, the US will rapidly become an amalgam of South Africa and Argentina, and that's exactly what we're witnessing here.
Zimbabwe was a comprehensive success for global elites. The mines kept running, Mugabe banked abroad, the destruction of agriculture removed a competitor for American, Canadian and Australian grain growers and just about everybody across the West passed the ordeal of civility inflicted by the imposition of majority rule by not vocalizing their observations.
There are signs of hope here. FL seems to be modeling a new (old?) way for states to relate to each other, without the by-your-leave of the fedgov.
And people are getting right and properly pissed with FEMA. I am waiting for the first local or state government (or civilian mob) to give them an armed escort out of town. Not this time around, I think... but it's coming.
FEMA being utterly useless, and even worse than useless, while Florida more than pulls its weight, is definitely a big angle here. Decay of federal government, state governments rising to take up the burden (and, ultimately, the sovereignty).
FEMA's always been useless. I've lived on the Gulf Coast most of my life, been through two direct hits with major hurricanes, and FEMA are the people who show up a week late, tie up local govt. resources because somebody's got to "coordinate" with them, and then end up writing checks to people to repair their stupid beachfront condos while everybody else spends a year fighting with insurance companies to get their roofs replaced. About the only useful thing they do is bring in trailers for low-income people who've lost their houses. But the catch is, those are temporary, and they repo them after a year or two. At that point most of them are trashed, and can't be re-used in another disaster, so it'd be far more efficient to just *give* them away, but that's not in the rulebook so... (shrugs). And most of the people who lived in them are once again homeless, because... (big shock) they still can't afford to replace the house they lost. Because they're old and disabled, or have an 85 IQ and that's why they were poor to begin with. Everything about that program makes little sense from the perspective of rendering aid. I assume it makes sense from the perspective of make-work nepo jobs for useless people who have a cousin who works for the .gov.
To be brutally frank, the first half of this article is outside the scope of credible, in my reference system. **That doesn't mean it's false**, just that it's so wild I'll have to do additional digging to verify. Fortunately, I just so happen to know one person from the area on another Internet forum. :) Said person called in after the storm, and some days later to report the power came back online. Also, from what the person said, the person still has a job to go to. But I'll run this article by that person when I see that person next time. :)
There’s no power still where my mother lives. My sister has no water. A friend of the family who left to stay in Charlotte told us that the water company called her and said there would be no water for possibly MONTHS in some areas of Asheville because the water came through Swannanoa and the infrastructure was *completely* destroyed. So the truth - as usual - is somewhere in the middle of Pollyanna-everything-is-great-because-the-party-I-like-is-in-office and everything-is-Hell-because-the-party-I-hate-is-in-office.
Friend outside Asheville reports: no electricity, no internet, very patchy phone service, neighborhood is OK, using generator to charge phones, but nobody can get in or out by vehicle because creek washed out all the bridges. Using generator intermittently to run the well, and keep food from spoiling. 8 days in, on the verge of re-establishing vehicle exit: men and teenagers in the neighborhood have banded together, used somebody's tractor and everybody's chainsaws, stripped all the fallen trees and moved resulting logs to temporarily patch up a road washout, and getting ready to use the rest to create a shallow crossing where trucks can ford the creek. They are doing fine, haven't seen any govt. (or other) assistance, haven't needed it.
The other 4 people I know in W.NC all came through fine, and not hearing any wild tales of piles of corpses or crazy conspiracy coverups. Yet. Won't discount automatically, but also won't give credit until I hear it from somebody I know IRL. People like to spread rumors. After Michael there were wild tales of FEMA and the "hundreds of body bags" etc. over in Mexico Beach. But the thing is, it's not a big city. You can't have that many people disappear and... nobody knows who they were. Names, addresses, who they were kin to. We only lost a few people, and we know who they were. Let me sit down five minutes with any random person from my home county, and we can figure out at least two mutual acquaintances. Maybe you could disappear a hundred people in NYC without having names for them. Not here, and especially not in Mexico Beach, which is a very small town where everybody knows everybody. Even the homeless hobos there are regulars that everybody recognizes and has nicknames for... and we'd notice if they disappeared.
Like in any disaster where comms are down, there are more missing reports than there are corpses, simply because phone service is out, and people are desperate to get in touch with relatives but can't physically get to them. That'll start getting sorted out soon, as contact gets re-established. Yeah, a lot of people died. Probably hundreds not thousands.
I think they are, just from the initial missing persons numbers. If you've got something like 600-ish missing, then a lot of those are going to turn out to be... somebody who was simply cut off from phone service and will be removed from the list eventually. So it's a safe bet that the complete death toll will be under 600, but more than the 215 I saw at last count. I could be wrong, in the end, but we're at a stage now where volunteers have gotten to most places, names lists are being posted for just: hey we made contact with these 23 people in XYZ area, and they're OK. Not seeing signs that the numbers will go suddenly exponential. A week is a lot of time for out-of-town friends and relatives to panic and put out a welfare-check request. It will take a long time to get a complete tally, just because... mud, wreckage, and currents will make it hard to find them all. But as contact gets re-established, it'll get more accurate.
Reports on military chain of command preventing units close by from helping: CONFIRMED
I'm currently going through the backlog of their Wire reports.
BEWARE: S2Underground is suspected to be a false-flag US SOF outlet, however there's *no* actual evidence for this and they have generally been accurate, historically.
If assisting police in peace-keeping (which hasn't happened since the 1930s) then you'd need orders from the top (political).
But for disaster relief, it's enough that the local relief co-ordinator ask the nearest military base for assistance, no politicians involved (in some cases, for a politician to stick their nose in such matters would be illegal).
It all dates back to ancient military tradition here, since there's always been so few of us: Man on the spot is in charge and makes the call, is the operating principle. That way, any one of any rank can do what he thinks is appropriate without fearing legal persecution later (provided the action is itself legal, of course).
And that is what is like in the best of times. At the moment a public sprited commander would look like a potential Napoleon to the regime. They would freak out.
I grew up in Western NC, and my 81 year old mother is still there and had to ride out the storm alone. She lost power and cell phone service but the house (on a hillside) survived with little damage. The ground was so saturated that 3" of water welled up into the basement. Many others were badly damaged, mostly from falling trees, and the houses lower down the hillside were flooded. Fortunately, the next door neighbors have a generator and satellite internet, and she was able to tell me she was OK, but the roads were washed out and there was no way out of town. She just got back cellular service last night, but needs to recharge the phone at the neighbors house. She said the road repair is going fairly quickly, and Mountain Electric told her two to three days to restore power once the roads reopen. There are people living on the Toe River and Squirrel Creek that would regularly get flooding during very heavy rains, even though the rest of the area didn't experience any. I would bet that they have been literally scoured from those small valleys or "hollers". These valleys are steep, so roads are quite literally wagon trails that have been widened and paved, and are usually close to the riverbanks where the terrain is a little flatter.
Damn, the video of the young woman in pink shared by Raw Egg Nationalist really drives it home: the Regime does not care about the people; they care only for retaining power at all costs. The sheer negligence on display is unfathomable and, as you might expect, your account of it is among the first I have heard that offers a semblance of nuance. There is a morsel of hope here, too – hope created by the people themselves – one that must be held on to and cherished at all costs.
In this, the most saddening of failures from the American government, citizens are all that the people can rely on. Yet when the spin of the news cycle is over, and all of this is relegated to history as the tragedy that it is, Biden and Harris will emerge the heroes of this story – just you wait.
Social media is not a good place for nuance. Writing this, collecting it all here, was also helpful for me, just to sort through it all - to put the emotions aside and try to think more clearly about it.
I feel like this is Substack’s important function - the superego to Twitter’s Id.
try to tell people to try to keep track of people rescued by FEMA and to make sure that they don't disappear (never to be seen again, after having jumped into a helicopter)
When you told the story about your ice storm as a teenager I knew exactly where you were going with it JC. The shit that has happened since 2000 has come from somewhere out of the Twilight Zone. Your list nailed it perfectly.
That being said we conspiracy theorists (I think we all are by now) have a moral responsibility. We must error on the side of truth.
I recently heard on a podcast a quote from that Cass Sunstein pos. He basically said we must take an existing theory and turn it into batshit crazy. It’s as I suspected the goal is to make the entire thing look foolish and unbelievable.
We shouldn’t take the bait but I am unsure if that’s even possible at this juncture given the level of insanity we have already witnessed.
...and "self assembling wifi nanobots" and "Tha JOOZ" and "FEMA concentration camps" and "UFO technology" and "Pedo Satanic Panic" and...
It's how you get all the sane normal people to just back right out of the nearest exit, instead of continuing on any trajectory that might lead to a grassroots political movement. Any organizing that wants to get past the shooting-the-breeze stage needs tight security that bounces anybody the millisecond they start any of that. Otherwise... well, you can watch it happen in realtime, any time a combox or forum starts to coalesce around a shared political concern: in come the paid schizobots to torpedo the discussion. The internet has made their lives super easy. Back in the 90s when they were busy blowing up the burgeoning militia movement in the US, they had to actually send real live agents out to infiltrate meetings and rile up the local overexcitable dumbasses. Lotta manpower. Now? One dude can blow up 20 internet forums from the comfort of his cubicle. A miracle of modern technology.
In this day and age, you can’t share rumors of inhuman atrocities without photo and video. That which is presented without evidence may be rejected without evidence.
Thanks John for bringing attention to this. I'm headed out with a group and will be dropping updates. We have a GoFundMe I'll link when I have some downtime
You can’t destroy every informal support of society and pimp out every formal institution and laws (🤣) shredding every social and economic contract, make elections a sham and at last shred the Constitutional Pact to get “_____ “ then turn around and say ; TRUST US.
OTOH just like the August 9th flash floods here people come and help each other…
I have a friend whose company supports disaster relief in North Carolina, they have assisted in the past coastal hurricanes. Her son flew helicopters in the service, is licensed to fly and as far they knew they were still licensed to operate and assist during this disaster. Her son was grounded, given the rationale that their organization had not received approval from the United Way, who is one of the NGOs coordinating with FEMA.
Fort Bragg in is the same state, they have been to stand down. We are at Day 5 and those resource - particularly the helicopters - have not been ordered in. Two days after the hurricane, the Tennessee National Guard was deployed overseas, but that should matter because Fort Bragg is the fucking state.
This government, operating actively to harm the people, dissolved the contract with us. We are duty bound to disobey it at every turn. Especially where FEMA is concerned. If you look up the law that create FEMA, is has ZERO authority to deny anyone access to an emergency area, it's charter states clearly it is an organization that collaborates and supports disaster recovery efforts. State and local law enforcement, acting on the orders of the governor have authority, according to North Carolina law that is to the extent that someone is interfering with rescue / recovery efforts. Driving on a back road doesn't qualify. And where the federal government derives the power to confer authority on a private entity such as the United Way that can ground pilots is beyond me. FAA can, the governor can, but FEMA? Nope.
The border is now closed between North Carolina and Tennessee. This is far worse than the flood itself, and more brazen than Covid. We are under no obligation to use the same system to vote it out of existence if that system has nullified it's power because they are used unconstitutionally to the harm of the US citizens. Pick any Founding Father and read their ideas about what is required when a govt acts in this manner and it's clear we're are duty bound to resist and end that form of government.
I'm a little heated because I have friends and my sister in the state, one outside of Asheville who luckily was unharmed.
You're not the only one whose emotions are riding high over this. And justifiably so.
I should have mentioned that some of the NG units had already been sent to support Our Greatest Ally. What a slap in the face, and what a clear demonstration of priorities.
I’ll be posting a podcast session with Pm, who has run assistance for hurricane relief. Her son is the one who was grounded yesterday. Prior to FEMA showing up on day three, private efforts were make good progress. Once the feds found that people were stepping on the turf, they’ve slowed things down. And I think we have to ask the basic question: who is going to know the back roads, the territories, the terrain better, locals or FEMA? FEMA should stack boxes, and watch the warehouses. That’s about it. Nat Guard and army does insertion and extraction, yet they are not there in any great number. And if the Gov doesn’t locals to help, the state of emergency should contain those orders instead of FEMA assuming authority which it doesn’t have.
Nobody is making some helicopters stay on the ground, it's probably about money to buy the fuel and so forth. The company will stay grounded until somebody cuts them a check, otherwise it's on their own resources. Plenty of helicopters are flying, drawing from other resources. I also have no idea what you mean by the "border" being closed, It's got to be hundreds of miles long through Appalachia.
There’s more fake news about the govt being dicks during this storm than I have ever seen. I have been working the thing the entire time with crews on the ground. Authorities have been nothing short of amazing (which has not been the case in the past) … so I have to stick up for these people who are busting their backs trying to be cool and help. It’s sad the internet has become such a dis info storm since the conspiracy movement got sold down the river 10 Years go. Now it’s run by fakes and frauds. Gross gross gross. I am sickened and saddened that we can’t congratulate law enforcement and people on the state level when they do a good job. I can send video and pictures to back up everything I said above …
Thanks for sharing this. I've only seen the one story about a pilot being told not to fly, but that definitely made the rounds so was worth including.
Can I ask whether it's state or federal authorities you're working with? And, which state are you operating in?
Yea mostly state, we are working NC. Please view Cletus Mcfarlands chopper video. He flew for 2-3 days with no issues. My friend is the one who tipped him off to go. Also here is a video of one of my crews dropping supplies in Burnsville. I haven’t had time to upload a ton of the vids yet. But more coming .
https://youtube.com/shorts/Vy7hzKZNsVI?feature=share
I saw the interview with the couple where the wife was rescued by the helicopter pilot who was threatened with arrest. So the statement “the authorities are great” lasts until it doesn’t. Many of the people in government are there only because they enjoy the power-trip. They like to be in charge and can’t stand for anyone to get in the way of their game. And the hanger-ons are usually even worse. Pathological narcissists the lot of them.
Everyone following the federal chain of command is an enemy to the states and the populace. They are not authorities. FEMA is a foreign army. When the DOD attacked the states with the covid jabs, they violated our trust and forfeited all constitutional privileges and duties. The government entity has been in total warfare with the population since the covid lockdowns. They haven't stopped attacking our food supply or our supply chain infrastructure. They haven't stopped using forest fire and flooding to kill us and to steal our land and children. Right now, the federal entity has a population of millions locked down in a deadly situation. They are killing people. You love your oppressor and abuser to a disgusting extent, and I hope that you're a shill, because I find it hard to believe that someone could be as upside down as you are.
So I take this piece to be about the Federal level of assistance? Not the local and state level which I’m sure is completely overwhelmed?
My daughter lived in Asheville until 2010, it was Ft. Bragg then. Has this base been deployed to the region? If so, when?
This fraud is an astologer based out of Santa monica, ca. He hasnt written a single thing about this on his own substack
He's also an expert in rescue response. Check out the link to his YT video.
Again, thats a video of a random person driving in NC. All his other videos are animal rescue. ANIMAL RESCUE IN CALIFORNIA. how does a musician astrologer animal rescue guy have a "rescue team"? Do a little research.
You're on the ground in NC?
My teams are yes; and have been for about a week!
Would it be obnoxious to suggest maybe writing a story about what's happening on the ground?
Maybe a first hand account from someone who's there now and has been since day one?
I'm in Ireland so there's little I can do personally
I mean I can yes. I’ve been doing this for many years; made documentaries about it etc etc… So people who know me already know what I’m about. But now that I see blatant lies are being bandied about; I can see the need is real. Makes me sick to see this stuff
I think this would be very valuable. Would be interested to read it myself.
Yeah I mean we have done a lot of work over the past 7-8 years to build a sustainable civilian response infrastructure just in case the offical responses were shit. But we basically forced them to reform over the years; at least on the state level, and I’m very happy about that. I’m happy when we civilians are not needed. But we are ready either way!
https://open.substack.com/pub/austinmuhs/p/the-current-state-of-affairs-for?r=1h2lt9&utm_medium=ios
https://www.amazon.com/People-Power-Civilian-Rescue-Movement/dp/B088YGS77N that’s my doc for the record
Maybe yes, maybe no but I'm not paying five or thirteen bucks to find out.
But YOU aren't. You don't have first person experience.
I'm glad "The Authorities" have been great where you are. Bear in mind that you only know what *you* see. Things happen out of your sight that tell different stories.
FEMA confiscated supplies in Lahaina, too. Locals outsmarted FEMA by running their own boats up the shore to Lahaina from Kihei to bring supplies to those in need. The FEMA workers stayed in $1,000 a night rooms while displaced Maui residents slept in tents. FEMA is defunct, having given a BILLION dollars to the illegal alien invaders and now has no money for Americans. Defund FEMA. Fire everyone who works for it. Build something new.
Yes, I heard the response in Maui was also suspiciously “incompetent”.
Land grab in Maui.
That's definitely what it looked like.
There are stories from Lahaina that still ask to be elucidated. Like this EARLY report there were 1k to 2k dead. https://sonar21.com/is-the-government-of-hawaii-lying-about-the-missing-and-dead-on-maui/ Again, this was an early report. Maybe that was the best estimate at the time?
The government lies about there being only 100 dead. There was supposed to be a $6 billion fund and no one has seen any of that money. Hundreds of people are still in tents after a year. The death total is closer to 800-1,000, including hundreds of kids. Fewer than 100 housing permits have been given to date for 2,500 houses that burned. Everything the State says is a lie.
Regarding the stories of FEMA officials interfering with private relief efforts. Could the local sheriffs arrest the FEMA officials who do this? There must be something they could be charged with. Reckless endangerment? Theft under the color of law? Manslaughter? Attempted murder? Interfering with official police business?
That was just one Barney Fife. Someone else allowed the man to land nearby and continue his rescuing efforts.
I have friends with helicopters; who flew uninterrupted for days. Not sure there is any validity to that story. At least not from what I can tell. It’s a literal fabrication for clicks…
But not you, just more hearsay to battle hearsay. "MY FRIENDS" BUT NOT YOU. was the "team" real in your mind?
"So when the regime fumble’s the response to a disaster, many will assume that it did so deliberately."
When you have the resources and the ability, and more importantly the solemn duty by virtue of having authority and having confiscated and taxed assets of the citizens in need, it doesn't matter if you fumble deliberately or not:
Fumbling is an act of treason against the people and a crime, period.
Apart from that, there's not much I can write that wouldn't be actionable.
I see this as the crisis of incompetence that we have here in the US now combined with greed. The Asheville area is one of the most liberal in NC outside the urban areas; no conspiracy there but the city council were all diversity feel good electees. There was little to no disaster planning. People were allowed to build in a known floodplain; see the Asheville flood of 1914. Then look at governors that didn't have any disaster planning; zero coordination ready with other states. The NC national guard should have been activated as soon as the storm track was fairly confirmed. Now the Feds roll in and start forcing everything under their aegis because rice bowls. Serious aid will now be on hold until Congress passes a disaster relief package because FEMA is broke at the beginning of the fiscal year. Christ, Chimney Rock is being bulldozed:
https://revolver.news/2024/10/harris-biden-heartless-land-grab-in-chimney-rock-nc-town-to-be-bulldozed-before-removal-of-the-dead/
The reaction and indifference of the "ruling class" is infuriating.
I think first, in the 1980s, Greed was made Good.
Then, in the 2000s, Greed was made God.
1916 - the "biblical" flood.
Thanks for the correction.The pictures from then were crazy.
I grew up not far from there. Oldtimers still talked about it when I was a kid.
"Christ, Chimney Rock is being bulldozed:"
Is being what?
Browsing through the comments, there seems to be a [quartz] mine there
This is starting to eerily look like the German 2021 floods (where very unusual things have been reported)
The mine is the only source of quartz crucibles to make silicon wafers used in modern chips. I can only go by what people are posting and sharing on X but the media is definitely sugar-coating the whole situation.
Yeah, pretty wild sub-story there that has global implications: https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2024/10/01/hurricane-helene-tech-chip-shortage-spruce-pine-quartz-supply
That emerging "parallel polis" in the wake of a withered, degraded and decadent state is par for the course in countries like South Africa. I wrote here awhile back that if Harris is installed, the US will rapidly become an amalgam of South Africa and Argentina, and that's exactly what we're witnessing here.
Bingo. The Democrats aspire to function as the ANC of a nation transformed by replacement level immigration.
Global Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe was a comprehensive success for global elites. The mines kept running, Mugabe banked abroad, the destruction of agriculture removed a competitor for American, Canadian and Australian grain growers and just about everybody across the West passed the ordeal of civility inflicted by the imposition of majority rule by not vocalizing their observations.
God that's dark.
Not inaccurate, mind you.
Sounds like you follow Robert Duigan's Marhobane Substack. He's very good on this (as he's South African): https://marhobane.substack.com/
In particular: https://marhobane.substack.com/p/civilisational-brinkmanship
Never heard of him, actually.
He is worth looking up. Based. Sound-headed. He has a twitter account.
https://x.com/uMarhobane
Cheers!
Was interviewed by BAP on CR ep. 144 "Capetown" - well worth a listen
In a real Emergency one redneck neighbor is worth more than 1000 PhDs.
There are signs of hope here. FL seems to be modeling a new (old?) way for states to relate to each other, without the by-your-leave of the fedgov.
And people are getting right and properly pissed with FEMA. I am waiting for the first local or state government (or civilian mob) to give them an armed escort out of town. Not this time around, I think... but it's coming.
FEMA being utterly useless, and even worse than useless, while Florida more than pulls its weight, is definitely a big angle here. Decay of federal government, state governments rising to take up the burden (and, ultimately, the sovereignty).
FEMA's always been useless. I've lived on the Gulf Coast most of my life, been through two direct hits with major hurricanes, and FEMA are the people who show up a week late, tie up local govt. resources because somebody's got to "coordinate" with them, and then end up writing checks to people to repair their stupid beachfront condos while everybody else spends a year fighting with insurance companies to get their roofs replaced. About the only useful thing they do is bring in trailers for low-income people who've lost their houses. But the catch is, those are temporary, and they repo them after a year or two. At that point most of them are trashed, and can't be re-used in another disaster, so it'd be far more efficient to just *give* them away, but that's not in the rulebook so... (shrugs). And most of the people who lived in them are once again homeless, because... (big shock) they still can't afford to replace the house they lost. Because they're old and disabled, or have an 85 IQ and that's why they were poor to begin with. Everything about that program makes little sense from the perspective of rendering aid. I assume it makes sense from the perspective of make-work nepo jobs for useless people who have a cousin who works for the .gov.
I think Chris Bray's take on Federal spending makes a good point here: https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/more-expensive-so-smaller
To be brutally frank, the first half of this article is outside the scope of credible, in my reference system. **That doesn't mean it's false**, just that it's so wild I'll have to do additional digging to verify. Fortunately, I just so happen to know one person from the area on another Internet forum. :) Said person called in after the storm, and some days later to report the power came back online. Also, from what the person said, the person still has a job to go to. But I'll run this article by that person when I see that person next time. :)
My understanding is that it’s the backwoods mountain areas that are cut off. Much of North Carolina is fine.
And yes, I agree some of the reports sound fucking crazy.
There’s no power still where my mother lives. My sister has no water. A friend of the family who left to stay in Charlotte told us that the water company called her and said there would be no water for possibly MONTHS in some areas of Asheville because the water came through Swannanoa and the infrastructure was *completely* destroyed. So the truth - as usual - is somewhere in the middle of Pollyanna-everything-is-great-because-the-party-I-like-is-in-office and everything-is-Hell-because-the-party-I-hate-is-in-office.
Months with no running water is completely insane. Third world shit. I hope your family gets through it.
Friend outside Asheville reports: no electricity, no internet, very patchy phone service, neighborhood is OK, using generator to charge phones, but nobody can get in or out by vehicle because creek washed out all the bridges. Using generator intermittently to run the well, and keep food from spoiling. 8 days in, on the verge of re-establishing vehicle exit: men and teenagers in the neighborhood have banded together, used somebody's tractor and everybody's chainsaws, stripped all the fallen trees and moved resulting logs to temporarily patch up a road washout, and getting ready to use the rest to create a shallow crossing where trucks can ford the creek. They are doing fine, haven't seen any govt. (or other) assistance, haven't needed it.
The other 4 people I know in W.NC all came through fine, and not hearing any wild tales of piles of corpses or crazy conspiracy coverups. Yet. Won't discount automatically, but also won't give credit until I hear it from somebody I know IRL. People like to spread rumors. After Michael there were wild tales of FEMA and the "hundreds of body bags" etc. over in Mexico Beach. But the thing is, it's not a big city. You can't have that many people disappear and... nobody knows who they were. Names, addresses, who they were kin to. We only lost a few people, and we know who they were. Let me sit down five minutes with any random person from my home county, and we can figure out at least two mutual acquaintances. Maybe you could disappear a hundred people in NYC without having names for them. Not here, and especially not in Mexico Beach, which is a very small town where everybody knows everybody. Even the homeless hobos there are regulars that everybody recognizes and has nicknames for... and we'd notice if they disappeared.
Like in any disaster where comms are down, there are more missing reports than there are corpses, simply because phone service is out, and people are desperate to get in touch with relatives but can't physically get to them. That'll start getting sorted out soon, as contact gets re-established. Yeah, a lot of people died. Probably hundreds not thousands.
Let's hope the estimates of thousands - which I think are across the whole region, not just Asheville - are pessimistic.
I think they are, just from the initial missing persons numbers. If you've got something like 600-ish missing, then a lot of those are going to turn out to be... somebody who was simply cut off from phone service and will be removed from the list eventually. So it's a safe bet that the complete death toll will be under 600, but more than the 215 I saw at last count. I could be wrong, in the end, but we're at a stage now where volunteers have gotten to most places, names lists are being posted for just: hey we made contact with these 23 people in XYZ area, and they're OK. Not seeing signs that the numbers will go suddenly exponential. A week is a lot of time for out-of-town friends and relatives to panic and put out a welfare-check request. It will take a long time to get a complete tally, just because... mud, wreckage, and currents will make it hard to find them all. But as contact gets re-established, it'll get more accurate.
https://odysee.com/@S2Underground:7/the-wire-priority-september-30%2C-2024:3
Reports on military chain of command preventing units close by from helping: CONFIRMED
I'm currently going through the backlog of their Wire reports.
BEWARE: S2Underground is suspected to be a false-flag US SOF outlet, however there's *no* actual evidence for this and they have generally been accurate, historically.
The military taking such a ridiculous time to respond is just insane. They should have deployed within hours, not a week.
I asked Chris Bray about that on his Stack yesterday (Thursday), since he has a military background, and the issue is, they need orders to move out.
No orders, they stay put.
I don't know how it's done in the US - obviously - but it seems it would be the governor telling the commander he can get to work.
Correct. The military does not move without orders. That's called mutiny, and is crossing a very broad and very dangerous Rubicon.
We have a different system.
If assisting police in peace-keeping (which hasn't happened since the 1930s) then you'd need orders from the top (political).
But for disaster relief, it's enough that the local relief co-ordinator ask the nearest military base for assistance, no politicians involved (in some cases, for a politician to stick their nose in such matters would be illegal).
It all dates back to ancient military tradition here, since there's always been so few of us: Man on the spot is in charge and makes the call, is the operating principle. That way, any one of any rank can do what he thinks is appropriate without fearing legal persecution later (provided the action is itself legal, of course).
Any senior commander showing too much initiative would be marked out as a potential hazard to his superiors in the chain of command.
A’s hire A’s; B’s hire C’s…
And that is what is like in the best of times. At the moment a public sprited commander would look like a potential Napoleon to the regime. They would freak out.
Additional confirmation: https://odysee.com/@S2Underground:7/the-wire-october-2%2C-2024:c
EDIT: they also link the port worker's strike with logistics problems in US South East, in the Wire for 2024-10-03
Port strike is already over, no?
It's over, but it went on for three days. And it exacerbated the logistical problems in the US South East.
Three days is definitely long enough to snarl the supply chains.
Until January 15
I grew up in Western NC, and my 81 year old mother is still there and had to ride out the storm alone. She lost power and cell phone service but the house (on a hillside) survived with little damage. The ground was so saturated that 3" of water welled up into the basement. Many others were badly damaged, mostly from falling trees, and the houses lower down the hillside were flooded. Fortunately, the next door neighbors have a generator and satellite internet, and she was able to tell me she was OK, but the roads were washed out and there was no way out of town. She just got back cellular service last night, but needs to recharge the phone at the neighbors house. She said the road repair is going fairly quickly, and Mountain Electric told her two to three days to restore power once the roads reopen. There are people living on the Toe River and Squirrel Creek that would regularly get flooding during very heavy rains, even though the rest of the area didn't experience any. I would bet that they have been literally scoured from those small valleys or "hollers". These valleys are steep, so roads are quite literally wagon trails that have been widened and paved, and are usually close to the riverbanks where the terrain is a little flatter.
Additional confirmation: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/spacex-engineer-north-carolina-has-dire-warning-biden-harris-fema-actively-blocking
I don't know what crawled up ZH's ass, after JC posted his thing, ZH posted TWO articles of their own regarding North Carolina. o.O
Clearly, someone there reads me 😏
Damn, the video of the young woman in pink shared by Raw Egg Nationalist really drives it home: the Regime does not care about the people; they care only for retaining power at all costs. The sheer negligence on display is unfathomable and, as you might expect, your account of it is among the first I have heard that offers a semblance of nuance. There is a morsel of hope here, too – hope created by the people themselves – one that must be held on to and cherished at all costs.
In this, the most saddening of failures from the American government, citizens are all that the people can rely on. Yet when the spin of the news cycle is over, and all of this is relegated to history as the tragedy that it is, Biden and Harris will emerge the heroes of this story – just you wait.
Social media is not a good place for nuance. Writing this, collecting it all here, was also helpful for me, just to sort through it all - to put the emotions aside and try to think more clearly about it.
I feel like this is Substack’s important function - the superego to Twitter’s Id.
try to tell people to try to keep track of people rescued by FEMA and to make sure that they don't disappear (never to be seen again, after having jumped into a helicopter)
Are you suggesting FEMA would kidnap children to traffic? I hate that this isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
When you told the story about your ice storm as a teenager I knew exactly where you were going with it JC. The shit that has happened since 2000 has come from somewhere out of the Twilight Zone. Your list nailed it perfectly.
That being said we conspiracy theorists (I think we all are by now) have a moral responsibility. We must error on the side of truth.
I recently heard on a podcast a quote from that Cass Sunstein pos. He basically said we must take an existing theory and turn it into batshit crazy. It’s as I suspected the goal is to make the entire thing look foolish and unbelievable.
We shouldn’t take the bait but I am unsure if that’s even possible at this juncture given the level of insanity we have already witnessed.
Overloading conspiracy theory with crazy is one of their favorite tactics, eg the No Planes people with 9/11, or the No Virus people during COVID-19.
...and "self assembling wifi nanobots" and "Tha JOOZ" and "FEMA concentration camps" and "UFO technology" and "Pedo Satanic Panic" and...
It's how you get all the sane normal people to just back right out of the nearest exit, instead of continuing on any trajectory that might lead to a grassroots political movement. Any organizing that wants to get past the shooting-the-breeze stage needs tight security that bounces anybody the millisecond they start any of that. Otherwise... well, you can watch it happen in realtime, any time a combox or forum starts to coalesce around a shared political concern: in come the paid schizobots to torpedo the discussion. The internet has made their lives super easy. Back in the 90s when they were busy blowing up the burgeoning militia movement in the US, they had to actually send real live agents out to infiltrate meetings and rile up the local overexcitable dumbasses. Lotta manpower. Now? One dude can blow up 20 internet forums from the comfort of his cubicle. A miracle of modern technology.
In this day and age, you can’t share rumors of inhuman atrocities without photo and video. That which is presented without evidence may be rejected without evidence.
One of my crews taken yesterday. Trying to post more video now …
https://youtube.com/shorts/Jncdk3hhBBQ?feature=share
Thanks John for bringing attention to this. I'm headed out with a group and will be dropping updates. We have a GoFundMe I'll link when I have some downtime
I think I already linked the GFM (twice).
You can’t destroy every informal support of society and pimp out every formal institution and laws (🤣) shredding every social and economic contract, make elections a sham and at last shred the Constitutional Pact to get “_____ “ then turn around and say ; TRUST US.
OTOH just like the August 9th flash floods here people come and help each other…