Sedalia Dave Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 5 3 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 Asheville is in the very western part of the state near tennesse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 That part of Tennessee was blitzed as well! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 Walmart is accepting donations for disaster relief at the registers. Asheville is one of my favorite places in NC. Great trout fishing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 well , whatever it takes , the neglect is a national disgrace at this point and $750 is an insult 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 19 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: That part of Tennessee was blitzed as well! Right. Ask my daughter and son-in-law who live in Flat Rock. Still no power, running out of fuel for their generator, roads blocked or washed away, neighbors have lost their homes and businesses, farms destroyed, many people are still trapped in their homes, blocked or destroyed sewage, communications spotty( if active at all), not enough drinking and cooking water and none for washing, bridges out. Not much wind but the water has nowhere to soak in where they are...one of two tropical rain forests in North America... and the ground is already soaked to the max. New estimates put full recovery at about three years... and they haven't received any help from the feds. The state and a lot of wonderful service organizations and volunteers are helping, though. Look at the pictures and you'll see something I never considered: hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed way inland and dropped when the flood waters ran off. Gonna be some serious health problems down the road because of all this. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Ignorance is BLISS. Why is it thought, with this much devastation, relief and recovery is going to be instant. Get Real People. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 In the few earthquakes that I have experienced in SoCal it was months before many people got their homes repaired and in many cases, liveable. But, in every case I am aware of, FEMA did help with the payment of or the completion of these repairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 I don’t know about East Tennessee, but the last couple of disasters in Middle Tennessee were prime examples of local folks and local organizations stepping up long before the feds did anything! The flash flood in Nashville in 2010 where there were buildings literally floating down interstate 24 made even ESPN news a few months later! The commentator pointed out that the recovery was remarkable in that the locals had not waited for someone else to come and fix it. They had gone to work and rebuilt, repaired, or replaced most of what had been damaged, while in the same period, another major city, (which I won’t name) was still a disaster area after more than three times as long! There are people from here that have dropped whatever they were doing and deployed to EVERY PART of the disaster area. They were preparing and heading out before the storm made landfall! Many of them were on the scene before the storm had passed, doing what needed to be done! 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 AND!! Don't forget, the individual State Governments also have great responsibility. The affected State Governors should have already activated their Nation Guard to respond to Disaster Relief. It does NOT all fall on the Federal Government. Constant bashing without regard to individual state responsibilities is pure ignorance. Get Over It PLUS ONE for Blackwater. If folks are waiting for someone else to "fix it" it is a sad commentary indeed. There was more than enough warning of what was to come. Those who fail to heed warnings seal their own fate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 It will never work....There is at least one person in government who will know how to read a map.... Texas Lizard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Falcon, SASS # 46139 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Another reason why government should never be in charge of anything. They can't do anything right except waste money and obfuscate. we waste more money on agencies that don't work or cannot perform. Also with government giveaways, there is always fraud and mismanagement. Defund all of government and let the private sector take care of things. They do such a more better job at anything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 (edited) 21 hours ago, watab kid said: well , whatever it takes , the neglect is a national disgrace at this point and $750 is an insult I am willing to take a Randolph and Mortimer wager, that many of those folks only getting $750 in assistance will vote Democrat in the fall. My brother-in-law is one of them. Edited October 6 by bgavin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 1 hour ago, bgavin said: I am willing to take a Randolph and Mortimer wager, that many of those folks only getting $750 in assistance will vote Democrat in the fall. My brother-in-law is one of them. God i hope you are wrong , four more years of the last foutr will put us in a depression Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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