Hurricane Helene - Be safe y'all
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bigredfish
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bigredfish
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In almost one week, the Biden-Harris administration approved:
Let that sink in!
- $8.7 billion in military aid for Israel
- $8 billion in military aid for Ukraine
- $567 million in military support for Taiwan
- $750 one time emergency assistance payment for American victims of Hurricane Helene
Let that sink in!
bigredfish
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If you only read one of my X posts, read this one please.
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A comrade in arms of mine and fellow OIF vet came up on the net and, thanks to STARLINK and @elonmusk was able to let me know he and his family are alive. But things are getting really bad really quick. He’s a fellow multiple tour Iraq vet and is not prone to exaggeration.
He’s in NC and here’s his first update:
"This entire area is a war zone, even if not directly “destroyed” by flood waters. There are men, women and children starving, without water and sanitation. No fuel. People can’t get to any distro points because they have no fuel. People are walking on foot and dragging wagons . . .
The majority of federal and state assets are being diverted to the incorporated areas of Asheville, Black Mtn, etc. and without a deliberate effort yet into the rural unincorporated areas.
People are suffering, and communities are rapidly moving to isolation and self-defense and policing.
There are bodies floating down the rivers. There are bodies stuck in the tops of trees.
Linemen entering destroyed areas are finding dozens of children as young as 3 walking thru the mud near naked, crying for their parents, some with ropes still tied on their arms attached to broken lumber where clearly their dead parents had last ditch tied them to something.
Was talking to a lineman yesterday how he’s finding heads and limbs everytime debris is removed.
Entire communities are just gone. Gone gone. Nothing to repair, and in some of the areas just no one to even help anymore. Just bodies, with a stench increasing by the day.
The death count WILL be in the thousands.
Desperation is increasing, and most vets are lying on their roofs with rifles. Local rural gas stations, markets etc have clear militias forming with men in hodge podge gear and rifles patrolling. We are self-policing now.”
Follow me, set notifications on, I’ll keep you informed as he keeps me updated.
And PRAY
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A comrade in arms of mine and fellow OIF vet came up on the net and, thanks to STARLINK and @elonmusk was able to let me know he and his family are alive. But things are getting really bad really quick. He’s a fellow multiple tour Iraq vet and is not prone to exaggeration.
He’s in NC and here’s his first update:
"This entire area is a war zone, even if not directly “destroyed” by flood waters. There are men, women and children starving, without water and sanitation. No fuel. People can’t get to any distro points because they have no fuel. People are walking on foot and dragging wagons . . .
The majority of federal and state assets are being diverted to the incorporated areas of Asheville, Black Mtn, etc. and without a deliberate effort yet into the rural unincorporated areas.
People are suffering, and communities are rapidly moving to isolation and self-defense and policing.
There are bodies floating down the rivers. There are bodies stuck in the tops of trees.
Linemen entering destroyed areas are finding dozens of children as young as 3 walking thru the mud near naked, crying for their parents, some with ropes still tied on their arms attached to broken lumber where clearly their dead parents had last ditch tied them to something.
Was talking to a lineman yesterday how he’s finding heads and limbs everytime debris is removed.
Entire communities are just gone. Gone gone. Nothing to repair, and in some of the areas just no one to even help anymore. Just bodies, with a stench increasing by the day.
The death count WILL be in the thousands.
Desperation is increasing, and most vets are lying on their roofs with rifles. Local rural gas stations, markets etc have clear militias forming with men in hodge podge gear and rifles patrolling. We are self-policing now.”
Follow me, set notifications on, I’ll keep you informed as he keeps me updated.
And PRAY
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Ezra A. Cohen
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Did he spend all of DHS’s budget bussing and flying illegal aliens into the United States?
Sure as heck wasn’t spent on border security.
@EzraACohen
Did he spend all of DHS’s budget bussing and flying illegal aliens into the United States?
Sure as heck wasn’t spent on border security.
bigredfish
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FEMA has now issued a NOTAM shutting down all civilian air traffic into the affected area. They have also grounded all civilian drones, and are not allowing civilian ground traffic in.
They are in full cover your ass mode.
They are in full cover your ass mode.
Source? I'm asking only because it looks fishy to me. I thought NOTAMs came from FAA, and this would be a TFR anyway. (Temporary flight restriction). I can't find any new NOTAMs for Ashville in the FAA data base, and the closest active TFR is in the Florida panhandle.
bigredfish
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I saw it pushed from the FAA but didn’t screenshot it. It’s being widely discussed. Likely low altitude only?
Yesterday helos
Today I count 2 under 10,000 both military chinooks
Yesterday helos
Today I count 2 under 10,000 both military chinooks
bigredfish
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bigredfish
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I count 5 helos up now on flight radar
Regardless of the technical question, it’s a lot less than the past few days
Regardless of the technical question, it’s a lot less than the past few days
Having read the entire linked article it’s quite apparent the fire chief is a stupid cunt!
Later as you continue to read this article the two police officers who can’t say never mind decide upon arresting the pilot for saving lives?!?
Another two stupid cunts . . .
Nobody has to worry that incompetence is running out anytime soon in that county!
Honestly can’t imagine coming back after saving a person’s spouse. To than go back and break the news he the pilot can’t take the husband back.
For fear, he will be arrested for being a Good Samaritan?!?
This is the only notam I can find:
!MCN 10/076 ZTL AIRSPACE UAS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 15NM RADIUS OF 353540.90N0823259.80W (9.5NM N AVL) SFC-400FT AGL DLY 1300-1200 2410021300-2410171200
It covers Ashville. I don't understand the 1300-1200 part, sound like it's effective 23 hours a day? Also the Ashville airport web site says GA aircraft need prior approval to land.
!MCN 10/076 ZTL AIRSPACE UAS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 15NM RADIUS OF 353540.90N0823259.80W (9.5NM N AVL) SFC-400FT AGL DLY 1300-1200 2410021300-2410171200
It covers Ashville. I don't understand the 1300-1200 part, sound like it's effective 23 hours a day? Also the Ashville airport web site says GA aircraft need prior approval to land.
Buttigieg’s order grounding private drone flights in Hurricane Helene flood rescue zones crashes and burns: ‘You’re hiding something’
Buttigieg’s order grounding private drone flights in Hurricane Helene flood rescue zones crashes and burns: ‘You’re hiding something’
“Private citizen drones and helicopters have been saving lives for days, and still are. You should be ashamed,” one person seethed.
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