Why did it take seven days for troops with helicopters, equipment, supplies, food, and water to be dispatched to southeast storm zones?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 05:20

I lived in NC for over 25 years. In all my time there, I saw more than my share of storms. The vast majority of them came up from the south and either skirted along the coast or bent inland and then run into the northern states. By the time they got to central NC, the storms were mostly petered out or, the swung back out to sea. In the past, Helene would have tracked like the black arrow I have crudely drew
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To get from TN into NC (or vice versa) you are forced onto the yellow route
Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
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Because of this, state and federal authorities had to figure out how to move the assets from their “normal” staging areas (blue area)
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Now, with Helene cut into a new area and at the same time severed the 2 major highway (Yellow Circle) capable of handling all the trucks and traffic:
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Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois
The rest of the landscape in not exactly conducive to move a lot of heavy traffic.
If you see your representative or Senator on this list and you are subject to Helene or Milton, know that they don’t give a crap about you. They care more about their power and subservience to their Most Exalted Grand PooBah and identifying and destroying people and things that are “woke” than they are to their fellow Americans that have been laid low by a storm that had never happened before. That $20 billion could have been put to use in projecting and gaming the response and, among the weather games would be what to do if another devastating storm follows right on its tails.
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than the blue routes.
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Representative Tom McClintock of California
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Representative Eli Crane of Arizona
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky
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Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
I am sure that someone, who has a political axe to grind, would say “Why didn’t they have extingency plans??? See! See! See! They and their leaders are incompetent and vote for the other guy!!!”.
to the new staging areas (red area).
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Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri
Representative William Timmons of South Carolina
Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
Representative Chip Roy of Texas
Representative Barry Moore of Alabama
Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi
Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee
Representative Kat Cammack of Florida
Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska
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Senator Mike Lee of Utah
Senator Katie Britt of Alabama
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina
Now we have a Cat 5 (Milton) locked on to Southwest Florida.
Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
Which is almost 300 miles farther
Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana
Representative Michael Cloud of Texas
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Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi
Representative Keith Self of Texas
Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa
While we really can’t do anything to stop or redirect storms (despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene spews), we can hold accountable the members of Congress who put their agenda ahead of the physical safety of their fellow Americans.
Representative Aaron Bean of Florida
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Representative Mary Miller of Illinois
Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
If one them is yours, let them know of your outrage and then, on your ballot, send these unprincipled MAGAts back to their mommy’s basement.
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Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
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Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina
SO you are now the Disaster God. You know a storm is coming so you activate your assets and move them to their staging areas. You know the storm might change a bit but not as big a shift that has happened.
Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
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Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio
Representative Daniel Webster of Florida
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
Representative Jim Banks of Indiana
Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina
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Representative Mike Bost of Illinois
Part of the problem you point out to the agitator is the recent battle in Congress that threatened to derail the necessary $20 billion FEMA funding. This funding should’ve been resolved months ago in preparation of the new fiscal year. But rather than do that, these politicians (if I could make my written words to drip with more sarcasm I would do it) decided that because FEMA would be wiped out under Project 2025. While the bill eventually passed, the following people voted against the bill:
Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia
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Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas
Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi
I know it doesn’t seem like a big distance but when you see power truck convoys a mile or so long, followed with the necessary support equipment and personnel, you realize this is something heavily planned.
Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina
If you look back in history, you will see that storms usually hit in the same general area and follow the same general path. So the plans to respond, assemble, stage and deploy were all built around history.
Senator James Risch of Idaho
Representative Andy Harris of Maryland
You now need to figure out how you are going to turn them around, ship them a couple hundred miles and hope that you can find and secure the necessary staging grounds. The contacts they used to have built up over 4, 5, 6, 10 storm seasons are no longer useful so they need to find new ones.
Representative John Rose of Tennessee
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
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Representative Mike Collins of Georgia
Senator Mike Braun of Indiana
Representative Lance Gooden of Texas
Helene did something unexpected: It ran right up the Blue Ridge Parkway (green arrow) and hammered towns that had never seen anything like this before.
Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama