Hurricanes

by on October 12, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Hurricane Milton has come and gone and Florida is rebuilding. Again. Meanwhile the Appalachians are still smashed into smithereens. Not a surprise really. Florida gets hit by a hurricane and it’s Tuesday. The Appalachians aren’t really what we would consider hurricane alley. So when a hurricane stops on top of them and drowns them, they are going to be a while recovering. It doesn’t help that FEMA says they are out of money and is mostly going in to tell other people what to do. So two weeks after Hurricane Helene pounded the snot out of Appalachia, private rescue, relief, and supply convoys continue flowing into the region in search of survivors who haven’t been contacted yet. The spirit of the American people in the face of catastrophe gives me hope for the human race.

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American as Apple Pie

by on October 11, 2024 at 12:01 am
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To those who say that criticizing the government is unAmerican, I’m going to have to let George Washington address this issue with all due consideration. Because we decided back in 1776 that criticizing the government is as American as Apple Pie. And what’s UNAmerican? Telling people they can’t.

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Hurricanes

by on October 10, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Hurricane Milton has arrived and it was a direct hit. But it seems to have lost strength during the final approach. And Florida was prepared, so while it has done a lot of damage and repairs will take a while, the appropriate steps appear to have been taken. Meanwhile, Joe is calling his political opponents unAmerican for daring to criticize the Federal response to the previous hurricane, and Kamala is picking a fight with the governor of Florida because he won’t take time out of preparing Florida for this hit and help her re-election campaign.

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Hurricanes

by on October 9, 2024 at 12:01 am
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FEMA has arrived in the Hurricane Helene disaster zone are reporting that they are organizing relief missions and passing out supplies. And they have vans stations so people can apply for government aid. Reports from the ground say they aren’t present in the outer hinterlands of western North Carolina. That is an all private volunteer organization area as far as local reports go. They report FEMA is blocking roads and ordering people to stop performing unapproved rescue efforts. Private rescue continues though, and now they report finding people out there who survived the storm and the floods, but committed suicide after days of waiting for rescue. There are tens of thousands of people out there, displaced or dead, many with towns and homes that no longer exist, and they are mad. They are asking how they are going to be able to vote in the next month. And that’s a good question. How ARE they going to vote when their houses and towns and polling stations were wiped off the map? And another hurricane is rolling in…

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Hurricanes

by on October 8, 2024 at 12:01 am
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We are still trying to find the survivors of Hurricane Helene and now Hurricane Miller is aiming at Florida. Now Florida knows how to deal with these things. People living in the mountains don’t, which is one of the reasons Helene is so devastating. Those narrow mountain valleys are simply not built to take the kind of deluge they got hit with, and entire towns have been washed away up there. I would not be surprised if the final death toll goes past a thousand. There are way too many missing up there for that to be a good thing at all. And another hurricane is coming…

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