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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?

09.06.2025 07:06

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

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Representative Bob Good of Virginia

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama

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.

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Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

Representative Roger Williams of Texas

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

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Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

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Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

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Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

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 Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

Representative John Curtis of Utah

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

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

Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

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

Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

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 Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

to the new staging areas (red area).

Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

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 Lance Gooden of Texas

Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

Representative Max Miller of Ohio

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

Representative Cory Mills of Florida

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

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 Mike Collins of Georgia

Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

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

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

Representative Mike Waltz of 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.

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

Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

House members

than the blue routes.

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

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!!!”.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

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.

Representative Chip Roy of Texas

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 Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Representative John Rose of Tennessee

Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio

Representative Randy Weber of Texas

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

Senate

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

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 Lauren Boebert of Colorado

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

Which is almost 300 miles farther

Representative Keith Self of Texas

Representative Tom McClintock of California

Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina

Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

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 Aaron Bean of Florida

They are listed above.

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

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.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah