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

10.06.2025 12:03

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

They are listed above.

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

Representative Max Miller of Ohio

How is it, in the USA, a country with 334 million people, the choice of President comes down to two aged men, one of whom is a liar as well as a criminal, one who appears to be on his way to dementia. Surely a democratic country can put up better?

Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama

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Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

Senator Mike Braun of Indiana

Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

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Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

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Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

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Representative John Rose of Tennessee

Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

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Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

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

Senator James Risch of Idaho

Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

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Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

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

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Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

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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.

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.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah

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Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

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Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

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Representative Cory Mills of Florida

Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

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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Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

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Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

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 Matt Rosendale of Montana

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma

Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

Representative Tom McClintock of California

Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

Representative Chip Roy of Texas

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina

Representative Roger Williams of Texas

Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

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 Gus Bilirakis of Florida

Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia

Senate

Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

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 Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

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.

Which is almost 300 miles farther

Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

Representative Keith Self of Texas

Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Representative Bill Posey of Florida

Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

Representative Jeff Duncan of South 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.

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

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi

Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

Representative Bob Good of Virginia

Representative James Baird of Indiana

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

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

Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

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

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

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 Lance Gooden of Texas

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.

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio

Representative John Curtis of Utah

Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona

Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

than the blue routes.

Representative Randy Weber of Texas

Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio

Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

to the new staging areas (red area).

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!!!”.

Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois