Helene hit Florida's Gulf Coast last week

Obviously “they” are keeping the ability to control the weather out of Republican hands. MTG with another gem:

 

Never heard of the guy. Is the information in the video wrong?

 

Which do you think is more likely?

A.) An officer who's just trying to get through the day doesn't know why some random unauthorized helicopter is trying to land in a parking lot and waves it away.

B.) This officer is in on the conspiracy to kill Republicans and is actively preventing Elon Musk from helping people.

 

Except that's not what you said.

 

It's been deleted. However, making equity in disaster recovery a priority is wrong imo.

 

Fair point.

How do you think this impacts Musk's assertion that FEMA is not letting others help, which you introduced to the thread?

 

Damn. Damage so bad we have to update maps.

 

I'm guessing the equity provisions are to prevent resources from being used disproportionately for affluent areas where preferential treatment may have been an issue in the past. Again, FEMA responses incorporate county and city management, utility companies, police, fire, medical, engineering, city and county works, traffic divisions, etc etc. Lots of opportunities for politicians and other administrative connections to pull "favors" and prioritize relationships for respective areas in need over poor white/minority folks.

 

I have that same vest!

 

Looks like possibly another storm forming in the gulf and preliminarily heading towards the Tampa/Sarasota area. Right now it's given a 70% change of forming into a tropical storm or low level hurricane.

 

Republican state senator in NC says the Feds are all over the plazce providing help and knock off the conspiracy theories.

 

His purpose is to post links to tweets that support his positions. Their accuracy is not a consideration.

 

Elon Musk slams FEMA over Helene response in North Carolina as SpaceX looks to set up new Starlinks | Fox Business

Elon Musk on Friday slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), claiming that it is blocking shipments of Starlink satellite internet deliveries in hurricane-ravaged North Carolina.

Musk said he had just received a note from a SpaceX engineer, Starlink’s parent company, in Asheville, North Carolina, who said the company has "powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We’ve deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives."

But Musk said the engineer claimed that FEMA is "actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough."

 

Pilot flying North Carolina Helene rescue missions threatened with arrest (thehill.com)

LAKE LURE, N.C. (WJZY) – When Jordan Seidhom woke up Saturday morning, he saw a Facebook post that tens of thousands of people were commenting on and sharing.

A family was stranded on a mountain in Banner Elk, North Carolina. They had run out of water a day earlier and had just enough food to last less than two days.

He first contacted the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport’s Air Traffic Control tower to get clearance to fly over the airport. Seidhom said he got the clearance and was allowed to fly over the airport, which is a direct shot to the gap in the mountains he needed to get through to Lake Lure.

Once in the Lake Lure area on Saturday, Seidhom landed at the nearest airport and met with multiple law enforcement officers and first responders to coordinate communication channels with them and to find out what was needed and where he should go to help.

 

Someone's lying...I'll put my money on the politicians.