Helene & Milton - Political fallout | FEMA steps back
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I wish he invested based on his sources. He wouldn't be able to afford the power to post.
lawtig02
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He’s been straight up buying votes for months now. He won’t be able to get any of it done, but that doesn’t diminish the absurd irresponsibility of it.
Mulberry Heel
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This whole lithium mine thing is such a total joke. NC's lithium belt isn't even in the mountains, it runs through the Piedmont close to Charlotte. Kind of hard to build lithium mines where there is little to no lithium.
lawtig02
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The morons don’t know the difference between lithium and the silicon they mine up near Spruce Pine. They think lithium and silicon are the same thing.
lightbluenc
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Nor do they care if they have to lie about any of it. The lie is just a means to an end, like everything with trump. If they have to lie to get their way then that's what it takes.
SnoopRob
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Actually, I'm past the point where I think it's tragic. I think it's perfectly fine.
Man says father-in-law refusing 'all FEMA help' because of Trump
A Republican House member from North Carolina took to social media this week to help debunk the misinformation spread by members of his own party about Hurricane Helene. Meanwhile, a man tells Dan Abrams his father-in-law is refusing FEMA help because of Trump's recent rhetoric. The Morning Joe...www.msnbc.com
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If you want to listen to a con man against all information & arguments and refuse the help that's offered to you, then either pull yourself up by your bootstraps or suffer in your ignorance. It makes no difference to me.
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Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ email shows
Safety fears are growing as misinformation collides with a large-scale federal recovery effort.Some FEMA operations paused in North Carolina after reports National Guard troops saw ‘armed militia’ threatening them
"... On Saturday, FEMA workers had to halt their work in Rutherford County due to reports that National Guard troops saw “armed militia” threatening the workers, according to the Washington Post, which cited an email to federal agencies helping with the response, verified by unnamed federal officials. It’s not clear if the threat was credible.
... Some FEMA operations were also paused Sunday in Ashe County, near the borders of Tennessee and Virginia, out of an abundance of caution, Sheriff B. Phil Howell said on Facebook. This included in-person applications for aid in at least two locations “due to threats occurring in some counties,” according to the county’s emergency management office. Those locations reopened Monday, the sheriff and emergency management office announced.
Howell urged residents to “stay calm and steady during our recovery, help folks and please don’t stir the pot.”
FEMA continues to assess potential threats to its staff in impacted areas and the agency is coordinating with local officials on the safety of its employees and will make future adjustments as needed, the spokesperson said. ..."
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Meteorologists Face Harassment and Death Threats Amid Hurricane Disinformation
Weather experts say the spiraling falsehoods, especially claims that the government is creating or controlling storms, have gotten out of hand.
Meteorologists Face Harassment and Death Threats Amid Hurricane Disinformation
Weather experts say the spiraling falsehoods, especially claims that the government is creating or controlling storms, have gotten out of hand.“… Of all the conspiracy theories and disinformation that have circulated, meteorologists say one falsehood that has especially gotten out of hand is the claim that the government is creating or controlling the storms. Forecasters have been harassed for either failing to promote these claims or for disseminating accurate information that counters them.
Matthew Cappucci, a D.C.-based meteorologist for MyRadar and The Washington Post, said he received hundreds of comments and dozens of messages during the storms about how the government had modified the weather and that accused him of helping cover it up. He said that the threats were “exasperating” at a time when he was working around the clock to track the hurricanes.
“Part of me wanted to say, ‘If you don’t trust my warnings, then stay in place,’” he said. “‘Just sit there and see what happens.’”
Dr. Shepherd said that such false claims about outside forces controlling the weather have always existed, recalling how similar assertions emerged during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. “The difference is that they were always out there in ‘fringe-world,’ but now I’ve seen them become almost mainstream,” he said. …”
billybobblockhead
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Yeah, it's at the northern end of McDowell County and that entire area got crushed. They were in there a couple of days after the storm rebuilding bridges and building a secondary bridge because the main bridge coming into the facility was reduced to 1 lane. They've done a ton of work up there to get folks back into the plant to start the cleanup process. I talked to one guy that worked up there and he told me they had some "product" that was ready to go that hadn't been harmed by the flood, but they were going to be slowly opening lines once they got them cleaned. One thing about this place. I've been in there several times over the years. It's is, and has to be highly sanitary in order to make what they make, and that ain't gonna happen quick.
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A friend who is in chemotherapy went today. He typically gets some "extra fluid". I think to keep him hydrated. He was told that he wouldn't be getting it as there is a critical shortage. The plant that supplies 80-90% of the US market is in... Marion.
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This video is from almost two weeks ago but it has good on-the-ground footage of Chimney Rock as the guy hiked into what was left of the area a few days after the storm.
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That’s the Cowans Ford Dam on Lake Norman near where I live. I drove through when they had it wide open and the power of the water was astonishing and I have never seen the river below the dam so far out of its banks. And it did flood downstream in Mountain Island Lake.
But it was planned, announced and understood that they have to do this to protect the nuclear power plant.
Also the elevation there is about 850 feet above sea level. And it is nowhere near Asheville and had nothing to do with flooding there. The water released in this video flowed down from the mountains.
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