This unfolding tragedy and humanitarian crisis needs it's own category. Hurricane Helene dumped an entire ocean of water on the tops of the Appalachian Mountains and completely washed away thousands and thousands of people many many who are still unaccounted for. Entire communities of businesses and houses were literally washed away in a mountain tsunami and unfortunately there were also chemical plants in these areas which were also washed away and the toxic shit from these places has contaminated everything.
FEMA and any government assistance in rebuilding roads, bridges and removing debris/toxins from people's houses/properties/industrial areas is non existent. These people are relying solely on volunteers and church groups to co-ordinate the recovery and they keep pleading for more volunteers. They are getting plenty of donations to the point of them struggling to store it because they can't distribute it all fast enough without more volunteers.
Let me remind all the 220 million Christian Americans of what is expected of them when others are in need, especially as we know there's plenty of Christian Boomers with empty camper vans they're not using who could donate it to a family for winter. ..as the Sacred Texts say "they are so blind in their hearts."
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. - 1 John 3:16-18
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. - Isaiah 1:17
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. - Proverbs 31:8-9
Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. - Proverbs 14:31
“How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” - Psalm 82:2-4
To make matters even more dire these people are about to face a very brutal winter, maybe even a Mighty Winter and it starts with the first of the Arctic blast to hit them tomorrow (Monday 1st Dec) so they need to get them warm shelter, at present there are estimates that around 800 are still living in tents. God have mercy on these souls.
These are some of the channels I'm watching to keep up to date on what's happening since non of the main stream media is reporting on this (This video is a most recent report but Travis went down there and reported from these towns)
Christian Appalachian Channel focused on helping individual families, the churches are doing the majority of the coordinating with food, supplies, heaters etc. He's a Trumper though and you are going to see a broken man in the next few months when his orange jesus isn't any better or less corrupted than the wandering potato was.
Young American journalist documenting the stories of the survivors, she does a pretty good job giving these people a voice to relay their experiences to other Americans and show them how these floods from Helene devastated so many families.
Another Christian guy working to co-ordinate the recovery effort and giving on location updates every day.
Would be good to see a Christian group organize a camper convoy and get a heap of campers down to these people at least for the winter, after then they will know their situation more clearly and can organize to relocate. I don't support rebuilding on the same areas that were just flooded either as some are doing, that is just insanity. These events are going to continue happening more often, if the jet stream sent a slow moving hurricane towards them this time then it can happen again.
The real tragedy is that all these civilians recovering human remains are not getting paid for being there for months and there's not a government agency in site, so why the fuck are Americans paying taxes for? Not that volunteering here is about being paid it's that in a well functioning society these experts would be dispatched to these areas and provided for no matter how long it takes to recover every body. One of these guys has special equipment that can see human remains underwater, him and the equipment are from Canada, where's all the equipment that Americans have paid their US Military Industrial Complex to build? Shameful.
Cops caught stealing $45K donated generators....what kind of piece of shit steals from victims who have lost everything and are living in absolute misery right now as we head into winter....fucking evil hearted cunts absolutely devoid of humanity.
I don't know what's sadder, the fact these people have been completely abandoned by their government or the fact that they believe their orange messiah is going to rush in and save them as soon as he takes office. Trump is not coming to save them, if anything he will round them up and put them in FEMA camps and then rezone their land for mining. Do these people forget Trump is a fucking business man and everything is about profits to him, when has he ever given a fuck about the average American?
Message to PRESIDENT TRUMP from Western NC & East TN Residents
Hurricane HELENE 2 Month UPDATE & NEEDS... WORST Hurricane in HISTORY
This whole thing is a disgrace and those Boomers should be handing over their Campervans without being prompted...