We’ve talked about the disaster of Hurricane Helene, which swept through the southern Appalachian mountains and caused unprecedented devastation.
But now, let’s discuss the aftermath. Locals and federal government employees are reported to have gone head-to-head. The stories that people are self-reporting over there are quite different from the shiny stories in the media about how glorious FEMA has been in lifting people up.
There are remaining questions about the death toll, with the North Carolina government putting the official number at 96 people confirmed dead, but folks in the area are telling a significantly different story.
I guess you have to decide who you are going to believe – the folks living it or a media and federal government that has lied to us repeatedly over the years.
This video is long, but it contains many clips of locals sharing their experiences. In my opinion, it’s well worth the watch.
What are your thoughts?
Do you think that the residents are telling the truth? Do you think FEMA is doing enough? What about the insurance companies?
Let’s discuss it in the comments section.
Good morning, dear Daisy. I couldn’t make it open the video. It said sign in but I could never make it work.
That said, I certainly trust my fellow southern mountain folk over any government agency!
Hi, Amy! You can click on the red arrow in the middle of the video screen to make it play here on this website 🙂
Boots on the ground over government & media? Never.
Whoops, need more coffee. I meant I’ll always believe boots on the ground over media & government, my bad.
Oh, I thought that was sarcasm. good laugh.
I believe boots on the ground. The regime in office now wants us all dead or in fema re education camps. We’ve got people from my neck of the woods in texas there, helping with relief efforts
they’re also in Florida. The Appalachian people are a strong proud self reliant bunch. God bless them.
IMHO, people who live in this general area, Carolinas, Tenn, have been ignored for generations: wherever there’s poor people eking out a living in the hollers, mountain tops, away from ‘civilization.’ There’s documentaries about it for anyone willing to research; I watched them decades ago. This video will become one of those made now. Kindly pray for victims.
Absolutely the boots on the ground are where the real story is. Missing in so much discussion are the natural resources such as lithium under these places that the gov’t so desperately wants to control.
I find it shocking but not surprising how the lies and lack of respect for human life is just pouring forth from FEMA and the likes. Very sad state of affairs for the once great country of America. Just ask the people of Lahaina and all the mainland wildfire victims and let’s not forget East Palestine, Ohio just how much help they have gotten from FEMA etc. How much their lives are “recovered” today.
These mountain people are showing the grit and determination that built this country and I pray for their encouragement and safety daily.
This has been a huge wake-up call to anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear!
Read the report where internal memos from FEMA prioritized minorities and LGTB-whatever over pretty much everyone else in need of help.
Then there was FEMAs new DEI policies.
Like most government agencies they are slow and inefficient. Some times when they show up, they can be helpful. Other times they just get in the way. Best thing to do is set up a local, community emergency plan. If and when FEMA shows up, you tell them who is in charge.
At a press conference on August 12th, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
It was true in 1986, and I think it’s even more true today. The only difference is that the left-wing media is actively working with the government to try and keep it quiet.
The Left wing media has been busy since the Wilson administration, at least.
I’ve watched part of the video, but paused it so we can get to the early voting center. It’s heartbreaking and maddening at the same time.
Daisy, I implore you to consider blocking any of the regular trolls if they post their usual disgusting comments. Let them do it someplace else. This tragedy is too painful to be exposed to their mockery.
Now is the time for all good men. Drive tractors under armed militiamen guards, to the airport. Hook up to those helicopters and drag them off the runways. The militia can solve the problems with any FEMA reps who try to interfere.
We the people have got to stand up for what is right, when people are actually still perishing from all this devastation caused by our Government’s interference with weather. Take back the confiscated goods from FEMA, and distribute it to people on 4X4s, side by sides, and other ATVs to get it to the people who need it. And, in my opinion, those helicopters that were hovering above the supply staging areas, should have been shot down.
Sorry, Daisy, but it’s time for the American people to stop pussyfooting around.
Bless you,
OD
I hope one of the first things President Trump does is de-fund fema, divide its funding by 50 and send it back to the states. The same thing with the education dept.
I like how you think!
FEMA is just another division of our corrupt government that needs to be de-funded and done away with. I’m old enough to remember how well certain programs like the school system, hospitals, etc. ran before our government got so involved. Between the greed, disregard for truth or decency and their inept thought processes I do not believe our government in the US does any thing good for the taxpaying US citizens.
I remember in junior high we students had to watch a documentary on Hitler’s holocaust.
I am glad I watched it, as it inculcated a deep suspicion of government in me.
I think this documentary ought to be shown to junior high and high school students today.
The Federal government is NOT here to help us.
They are here to prevent us from being helped and giving help.
Technically we can’t even fully trust the boots on the ground style videos and reports. People could be making stuff up for clicks, just like at any other time.
There are YouTube channels of people who live down there and have for years. Those reports I would trust more than unknowns saying horrible things. Unless they have a history of crying the sky is falling on every video they have ever put up.
Yes I’m jaded.