Why did it take seven days for troops with helicopters, equipment, supplies, food, and water to be dispatched to southeast storm zones?
08.06.2025 00:01
Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas
Representative David Schweikert of Arizona
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.
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 Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Representative Aaron Bean of Florida
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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 Lauren Boebert of Colorado
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 Debbie Lesko of Arizona
Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
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Representative Tom McClintock of California
Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia
Representative Lance Gooden of Texas
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Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
Representative Keith Self of Texas
Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota
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to the new staging areas (red area).
Representative Mary Miller of Illinois
Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
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Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina
Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska
Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee
Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
Representative Kat Cammack of Florida
Representative Daniel Webster of Florida
Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas
Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota
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Senator James Risch of Idaho
Representative Michael Cloud of Texas
Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas
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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 Greg Lopez of Colorado
Representative Mike Bost of Illinois
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Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia
Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas
Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa
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Representative Bob Good of Virginia
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri
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than the blue routes.
Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania
Representative Roger Williams of Texas
Representative Jim Banks of Indiana
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 Mike Lee of Utah
Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina
Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
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 Eric Burlison of Missouri
Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi
Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia
Representative Max Miller of Ohio
Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois
Representative Randy Weber of Texas
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 Trent Kelly of Mississippi
Representative Bill Posey of Florida
Senator Katie Britt of Alabama
Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida
Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Representative Chip Roy of Texas
Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho
Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia
Senate
Representative John Curtis of Utah
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
Representative Ron Estes of Kansas
The rest of the landscape in not exactly conducive to move a lot of heavy traffic.
Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina
Now we have a Cat 5 (Milton) locked on to Southwest Florida.
Representative James Baird of Indiana
Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey
Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana
Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona
Senator Mike Braun of Indiana
Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana
House members
Representative Barry Moore of Alabama
Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
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 Jim Jordan of Ohio
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana
Because of this, state and federal authorities had to figure out how to move the assets from their “normal” staging areas (blue area)
Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio
Representative Andy Harris of Maryland
Representative Mike Collins of Georgia
Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Representative William Timmons of South Carolina
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.
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 Bruce Westerman of Arkansas
Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee
They are listed above.
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 Eli Crane of Arizona
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona
Representative Byron Donalds of Florida
Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
Representative Mike Waltz of Florida
Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida
Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio
Representative John Rose of Tennessee
Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama
Representative Laurel Lee of Florida
To get from TN into NC (or vice versa) you are forced onto the yellow route
Representative Cory Mills of Florida
Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi
Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas
Representative Claudia Tenney of New York
Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana
Which is almost 300 miles farther