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As North Carolina Hurricane Helene victims continue to struggle, FEMA reportedly refuses to deploy empty RV trailers to help them. According to an unnamed N.C. lawmaker, FEMA has multiple empty RV trailers sitting in the N.C. town of Hickory — trailers that critics say could be used to provide housing to those who’ve lost their homes. “Don’t use my name, but a constituent called me yesterday asking about all the FEMA housing units and trailers that are staged in Hickory,” the lawmaker wrote in a private message to Cassie Clark, an N.C. influencer. “They’ve been there for a few weeks. I asked FEMA what they were and confirmed they indeed are housing units staged for inspection waiting to be sent out to ‘qualifying counties.’ I asked for a timeline. Attached is the response. Very disappointing,” the lawmaker added. The attached response from FEMA read as follows: “At the moment not specific time frame, this would be very depending on each individual survivor that are in the FEMA IA program and also in the process with the counties/cities to look for areas to stage them for the survivors.” Very Kamalian According to Matt Van Swol, a reporter and photographer, a non-profit by the name of EmergencyRV has been doing FEMA’s job by providing affected families with an RV if and when possible. The non-profit did at one point try begging FEMA for access to their empty trailers but were denied. Speaking later on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Swol called for FEMA to just hand over the RVs and deal with the paperwork later. “It’s absolutely horrific,” he said of the crisis in N.C. “I mean, there should be zero American citizens living in tents in North Carolina right now. There are plenty of FEMA trailers available for these citizens. They’re sitting maybe 15 miles away.” “They’re nice and heated, and they’re occupied by FEMA workers. So I put out a post saying that maybe you should get out of those and hand them to the people [who need them] because it’s getting cold outside. So why not just hand them over and deal with the paperwork later?” he added.
With this fact sheet in mind, host Laura Ingraham asked Swol, “Could it be that people are choosing as the inclement weather is coming to live in these tents?” Swol’s wife then cut in to answer that question. “No, they’re basically given a choice,” she said. “We were given a choice. A few days after we got out of Asheville and came back, we got a letter from FEMA with a voucher to a hotel in Tennessee, far away from everyone who needed us here. We came back. We decided to stay.” “We got denied twice from FEMA, appealed, ended up having to have a generator to take care of our neighbors on either side of us. One’s on a CPAP machine. The other one didn’t have electricity of any kind, including cooked plates. Everyone’s circumstances is incredibly different,” she added. According to a separate report, FEMA isn’t just denying people access to its trailers — it’s also denying them access to tiny homes built by volunteers. Meanwhile, the federal government is now claiming it doesn’t have any more money to hand over to Hurricane Helene survivors.
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| Posted by:Procopius2k |
| #13 Ever since I've used the self-checkout stations at my local chain grocery (kind of a wannabe Whole Foods) there's been a pre-payment nag screen: "Would you like to round up to feed hungry kids? [Yes] [No]." A couple of weeks before the election I was amazed to read "Would you like to round up for Florida hurricane relief?" A few days post-election it's back to the original... but now I smile as I dismiss it instead of trying to crack the screen. |
| Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-11-29 21:26 |
| #12 If that's Grammerly, then I still say they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-11-29 17:52 |
| #11 Glenmore, you're not the only one. |
| Posted by: alanc 2024-11-29 17:38 |
| #10 ^Google "Grammarly" |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-11-29 16:02 |
| #9 No Grom. But the degree of illiteracy in that response did surprise me. Now that I look at it again, it doesn't just look like a second grade child but a second grade child for whom English is a second language. They were scraping the bottom of the barrel when they hired that person. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-11-29 14:14 |
| #8 ^It took you all that time? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-11-29 13:02 |
| #7 That response is not even bureaucratese. It's like some second grader wrote it. So, apart from being corrupt, we must embrace the power of "and" and realize they are also incompetent. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-11-29 11:48 |
| #6 This will also make your blood boil. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2024-11-29 11:35 |
| #5 To those beurocrats the Process Is the Be All and End All. Nothing exists outside of the Process. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2024-11-29 11:21 |
| #4 Connect to Volunteer "alert - warning Do not self-deploy to disaster areas. Trusted organizations operating in the affected area know where volunteers are needed. Depending on the disaster and the current phase it is in, volunteers can be extremely helpful to ensure survivors can return to their new normal. By working with an established non-profit organization, the appropriate safety, training and skills can be considered. Recovery lasts a lot longer than media attention. There will be volunteer needs for many months, often many years, after the disaster. Your help often is needed long after a disaster." Last updated January 25, 2023 FEMA.gov FEMA trailer |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-29 10:08 |
| #3 My morning eyes read the headline as 'White People Freeze' ... which is equally correct. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2024-11-29 09:00 |
| #2 Maybe the trailers haven't been fumigated from their former residents yet. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-11-29 06:46 |
| #1 To slap & kick WNC saviors harder. The Biden Regime during this process has sent $Billion$ to Ukraine. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-11-29 03:22 |