Appalachia's Katrina: Does Anyone Care?

[citygator]

A real President would at least show up. Maybe fly over the scene of the disaster, stop, talk with residents, ask them what they need....

You know, like something Trump would have done.

I dont think campaign stops during disasters is a good idea for anyone. Bush and Obama both let the immediate recovery pass without the disruption. Maybe Biden could show up and throw paper towels to people. So helpful.

 

[candycorn]

Appalachia's Katrina: Does Anyone Care?​

Ready to take Climate Change seriously yet?

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/28/nx-s1-5132035/death-toll-from-hurricane-helene-mounts-as-aftermath-assessment-begins

The OP is, as always, full of shit. 1300+ died in Katrina. Over 100 died in Harvey.

 

[August West]

What I'm "rambling" about is the fact that we don't have anyone even remotely resembling a President or a Vice President in the White House right now. The former is on permanent vacation, and tha latter is running around the countryside, thinking people are stupid enough to elect her to the highest office in the country.

What we have are a lot of pouting losers. When Gomer Bush took frequent trips to his Texas ranch, the Democrats didn`t try to turn it into a scandal.

 

[debbiedowner]

This is all over the news. Not sure how that is missed.

Maybe she lives in a rural area but it is all over the news, tv and internet.

 

[debbiedowner]

How would more news coverage stop the flooding? Hurricane Ivan left 9 feet in my parent`s home so I`m not unsympathetic but when people are grabbing their remotes to change the channel, networks will cut back their coverage. Their money is more important to them than the fact that people are dying.

Must be from around these parts. I lived here during Ivan but evacuated to Selma and they had a tornado from it. No house flooding though, lost roof and other damage. No claims since 2004. Just saw the flooding in TN, NC estimated damage is $100 billion. Did not estimate Fl or Ga.

Some of the new insurance companies the state acquired this year will surely be pulling out next year. We have discussed moving the past 4 years and early next year might just happen. Just don't want to pay the high insurance costs.

 

[debbiedowner]

Why three months? WTH? Usually its two or three weeks at worst.

The whole western side of NC is closed. Looks like the whole electrical grid was destroyed as well as damns. Even if they had electricity gas trucks could not get there. Many are or will be without food pretty soon. Many missing.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The whole western side of NC is closed. Looks like the whole electrical grid was destroyed as well as damns. Even if they had electricity gas trucks could not get there. Many are or will be without food pretty soon. Many missing.

Bless them. That truly sucks.

 

[Lesh]

It is kind of ironic she linked to a story from the MSM in a thread whining about the MSM not covering the topic

Typical

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It is kind of ironic she linked to a story from the MSM in a thread whining about the MSM not covering the topic

That happens daily, here.

 

[Foxfyre]

I'm astounded (or not really) that the MSM seems obsessed with Hezbollah halfway around the world. Meanwhile, Asheville NC and surrounding areas are decimated and cut off from modern civilization. At least 50 people have died and maybe more. Not the big story I guess.

However much we hate the MSM, it's not enough. Not nearly enough.

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North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Saturday evening that 10 people have died due to Hurricane Helene.

"The catastrophic devastation to western North Carolina is like nothing we have ever seen," Cooper said in a statement. "Emergency responders are working around the clock coordinating rescues and getting resources to help people with their immediate needs as they work to save lives."

Since Thursday, over 200 people have been rescued through water and helicopter rescues in the state.

-ABC News' Victoria Arancio

Hurricane Helene live updates: 52 dead in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia

Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region Thursday night as a massive Category 4 hurricane -- the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend on record.

abcnews.go.com

Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee all mostly red states. Therefore not important enough for more than a mention in the national news I guess. Fox Business News and the Weather Channel have been doing good coverage and updates on the disasters though.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee all mostly red states. Therefore not important enough for more than a mention in the national news I guess. Fox Business News and the Weather Channel have been doing good coverage and updates on the disasters though.

It's literally front page of every major news outlet. That and the attacks on Lebanon.

You guys are inventing things to complain about. In the interest of playing right wing victims, naturally.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

It’s 75% white but is becoming overwhelmed with democrat and AGW politics.
Apparently not enough of those inferior blacks to warrant democrat sympathy.

 

[Votto]

One might ask whether making everything political, even natural disasters helps or hurts the situations. I would have to side with the idea it does great harm.

Politics kills.

No other way to put it.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Let them wallow and drown. They’re a bunch of AGW idiots anyway.
Like feminists who bitch about the darkness instead of replacing a burnt-out light bulb, Asheville lefties will swim in the streets and bitch about fictitious AGW.

 

[Foxfyre]

It's literally front page of every major news outlet. That and the attacks on Lebanon.

You guys are inventing things to complain about. In the interest of playing right wing victims, naturally.

In fairness, WAPO is running a front page story on Helene today but very few are.

 

[22lcidw]

who gives a fuck about EVs when entire towns have been washed away?

Well with the flooding there has been a few structure fires caused by the electric vehicles. More difficult to fight fires with that situation.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

In fairness, WAPO is running a front page story on Helene today but very few are.

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A financial paper and local newspapers.

I don't think that makes the point you think it does.

 

[StoneCold]

Seriously? The lady can't speak, repeats the same lines and words multiple times in the same thought, is the queen of word salads and avoids conversations without her teleprompter. If you can't explain something simply, then you don't understand it well enough, and Kamala continues to demonstrate this.

Have your guy explain NAFTA just once. Or windmills killing whales. Or causing cancer.
Be sure to follow the weave!

 

[Foxfyre]

A financial paper and local newspapers.

I don't think that makes the point you think it does.

You can google all the other front pages too. USMB allows only so many photos. I think you just don't want to admit that the OP is right.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

You can google all the other front pages too. USMB allows only so many photos. I think you just don't want to admit that the OP is right.

National outlets. "MSM"

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