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2024-10-08 Government Corruption
Grieving North Carolina families forced to bury dead in backyards as they blast FEMA for hurricane 'cover up'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Grieving families in North Carolina have been forced to bury their dead in their backyards - and are accusing authorities of downplaying the damage caused by Hurricane Helene.

The official death toll rose to 227 over the weekend - half of whom were from North Carolina - but state and federal officials told The Spectator that this number is woefully inaccurate.

Many bodies haven't even been recovered amid debris and flooding. There are also piles of deceased people who have yet to be identified. They are being transported all over the state in hopes of finding open morgue space.

'According to folks on the ground - fire, medical, law enforcement officials - they’re way underreporting the numbers. All the morgues are full and they’ve hauled a ton [of bodies] to Greensboro,' the state official said. 'People are starting to bury them in their yards because they have no place to put them.'

One individual who was in Asheville when Helene hit told The Spectator: 'It's so much worse than they're saying...I think there's a massive cover-up.'

The destruction from Helene, and the immense multi-state death toll, comes just days before Category 5 Hurricane Milton is set to barrel into Florida's coastline.

Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida at night on September 26 before laying waste to Georgia and the Carolinas with record storm surges and tornados.

North Carolina alone had six confirmed tornados on the morning of September 27, two days before 500 members of state's national guard were deployed to help with rescue efforts.

Locals say they are 'pissed' at General Major Todd Hunt, director of the North Carolina National Guard, for waiting a whole 48 hours to get boots on the ground.
I’m not sure that’s fair. Orienting and observing take more than a few seconds, surely.
There were 5,500 national guardsmen deployed around this time, some of them from other states such as Florida.

'That’s why you saw the Florida National Guard and other units out there - and why private citizens stepped in, even as state and federal officials tried to shut down their efforts,' an anonymous source familiar with the situation in North Carolina told The Spectator.

Before North Carolina national guardsmen were deployed, a four-year-old girl was killed in a car crash in Claremont, a town around 40 miles north of Charlotte.

Another person died after a tree fell on their Charlotte home.

In North Carolina's Buncombe County, 40 people have died, the county manager has stated.

Asheville, a popular tourist destination in Buncombe County, was one of the hardest hit towns, where scenes of complete devastation are all too common.

The small mountain town of Swannanoa dealt with flood levels not seen since 1791, and locals have said their community was 'entirely erased.'

This comes days after a whistleblower wrote a letter to Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., that details how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has wasted and misappropriated funds in the wake of Helene and is now 'exacerbating the emergency.'

The letter to Gaetz also alleges 'hundreds if not thousands' of first responders and service members have been 'without deployment orders' with some waiting around in hotels while others 'have sat idle' as Americans throughout the southeast are in dire need.

Last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted that FEMA ran out of money to make it through the hurricane season, after it handed out more than $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to give housing assistance to illegal migrants over the last two years.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Army veteran lawmaker airlifting 'life-saving' supplies to Hurricane Helene victims claims Biden and Harris' 'photo ops' have delayed rescue effort
Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-08 03:40||   2024-10-08 03:40|| Front Page Top

#2 
Given the way the O'Biden Admin DOJ/_ _ _ & FEMA) handles things. The families, burying their own dead, will be charged, arrested, jailed and wait 3 years for a trial.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-08 03:51||   2024-10-08 03:51|| Front Page Top

#3 General Major Todd Hunt

For those who do not know. The senior NG in each state is not chosen by DoD. It varies from state to state, but is often a political appointment without any prior military experience requirement. Per Article I, Sec 8 -

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

IIRC in one state it is a elected position.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-10-08 07:19||   2024-10-08 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Yes, could in fact be a Major or Lieutenant Colonel who has found political favor.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-08 07:26||   2024-10-08 07:26|| Front Page Top

#5  Army veteran lawmaker airlifting 'life-saving' supplies to Hurricane Helene victims claims Biden and Harris' 'photo ops' have delayed rescue effort

Of course. Not specific to the current president and vice president, but common behaviour whenever VIPs come through to see for themselves… or be seen helping. The thoughtful ones like Ivanka Trump try to minimize the impact, or bring some extra supplies like President Trump did, but VIPs are by their nature disruptive in that environment.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-08 09:01||   2024-10-08 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ...but were they under "sniper fire" at Ashville's airport?*

* see Hillary in the Balkans.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-10-08 10:51||   2024-10-08 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 The families, burying their own dead, will be charged, arrested, jailed and wait 3 years for a trial.

The EPA has already begun filing injunctions. /sarc
Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-08 11:01||   2024-10-08 11:01|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-08 13:26||   2024-10-08 13:26|| Front Page Top

#9 
Just got off the phone with family in Franklin - Hayesville WNC. They are north of US-64 in what has become 1/2 back country. What they have described is hideous and far worse than the media & gov is reporting. They're pulling over ripe bodies out of trees. Houses hit with the likes of tidal waves and bodies floating in ponds. The NOC and Anderson, NC got its share of problems also.

The FED's, as I was told, are their biggest hideous in their community rescue and recovery efforts. Little if any food or supplies getting into the areas.

My Nephew made a comment that I had not thought of.
It seems the general feeling in his area, is the Democrats in charge, are hiding the far greater death toll than claimed, minimizing the mess and inability to do handle things. Because it is so close to the election.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-08 18:04||   2024-10-08 18:04|| Front Page Top

#10 The government shipped up 3 pallets of electric chainsaws to us in a community without power



https://x.com/M_C_Masters/status/1843657230786408639
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-10-08 18:53||   2024-10-08 18:53|| Front Page Top

#11 "Zero Emissions achieved!"
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-08 19:21||   2024-10-08 19:21|| Front Page Top

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