Why did it take seven days for troops with helicopters, equipment, supplies, food, and water to be dispatched to southeast storm zones?

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

Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

Senator Mike Braun of Indiana

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Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

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Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

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Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

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Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

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Representative John Curtis of Utah

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Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

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Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

Representative Max Miller of Ohio

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

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Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

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.

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!!!”.

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Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

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Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

What do you think of a parent telling their adult child to “keep their personal life to themselves” in relation to talking to them? No reason they should say that it was mean what should I do?

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

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Senator James Risch of Idaho

Why is the French way to say please is "S'il te plaît" and not "Pour Favour" like Spanish and Portuguese "Per Favor" and Italian "Per Favore" in the Romance languages group?

Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

Representative Cory Mills of Florida

Representative Bill Posey of Florida

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Representative John Rose of Tennessee

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Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

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Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

Why do most people care so much about what others think? Are they afraid of society norms?

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.

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

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Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

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Representative Bob Good of Virginia

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

Representative Mike Ezell 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 Michael Guest of Mississippi

Representative Keith Self of Texas

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

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:

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

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 William Timmons of South Carolina

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

Representative Tom McClintock of California

Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio

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 Roger Williams of Texas

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

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Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Representative Chip Roy of Texas

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio

Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

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 Rich McCormick of Georgia

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona

Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

Which is almost 300 miles farther

To get from TN into NC (or vice versa) you are forced onto the yellow route

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina

They are listed above.

House members

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

Now we have a Cat 5 (Milton) locked on to Southwest Florida.

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.

Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

to the new staging areas (red area).

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

Representative James Baird of Indiana

The rest of the landscape in not exactly conducive to move a lot of heavy traffic.

Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

than the blue routes.

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.

Because of this, state and federal authorities had to figure out how to move the assets from their “normal” staging areas (blue area)

Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

Senator Mike Lee of Utah

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 Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania