Sunday, October 6, 2024

Appalachian Elegy: A Disaster Wrought by America-Last Democrats; Helicopter Pilot Threatened with Arrest After Flying Rescue Missions in Flood-Ravaged NC

Appalachian Elegy:
A disaster wrought by America-Last Democrats
In the wake of biblical-level devastation left by Hurricane Helene this last week, fatalities have soared over 200, more than 1000 people are unaccounted for, and severe flooding has washed out towns, roads and bridges from Florida to North Carolina, the hardest-hit state. Whole communities have been without necessities like water, power, cell phone service, and food for nearly a week. Some residents are trapped in mountainside homes with no way to communicate with emergency personnel. This is an ongoing disaster of epic proportions.
One resident of Fairview, a suburb of Asheville NC, said “the heavens came down” with the hurricane. “It was incomprehensible, what we witnessed, as it relates to the magnitude it was,” reported a Charlotte City councilman. “[I]t was truly something that you really can’t even visualize unless you see it.”
In true American style, civilian volunteers, many from out of state, have leapt into action to locate and assist survivors. Their heroic efforts stand in sharp contrast to an absent federal government that has no clear leadership. Decrepit, deposed President Joe Biden belatedly issued a statement about sending in a too-little, too-late force of a thousand Army servicemembers. Kamala Harris, who is worthless under the best of circumstances, has been busy salvaging her campaign after running mate Tim “Not Ready for Prime Time” Walz’s catastrophic performance in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate. So no one in the White House is available, or cares enough, to help Americans in dire need.
One Fairview resident said, “I’ve seen lots of out-of-state rescue, lots of county ambulances. I’ve seen lots of state resources, wildlife resources… But I haven’t seen any federal government. I guess when you have a disaster like this, you imagine the federal government would swoop in, but that hasn’t been the case here.”
Unfortunately, the federal government now is swooping in; to paraphrase Ronald Reagan’s famous statement, “We’re from the government and we’re here to make a terrible situation immeasurably worse.” Department of Transportation diversity hire Pete Buttigieg took a break from complaining that highways are racist to announce that civilian helicopter pilots and drones used for locating victims would no longer be allowed in the airspace of the devastation. Indeed, volunteer chopper pilots trying to assist survivors in need are being threatened with arrest. The purported reason for this policy is that civilian volunteers might hinder government efforts or create “safety issues.” The real reason is that the government is a jealous god and resents civilians swooping in and doing a better job.
A “cynical” person might even believe that the Biden-Harris (Harris-Biden? Obama-Rice?) regime doesn’t want civilians helping because it doesn’t care about the lives of rural whites. After all, Kamala said back in 2022 that the Biden regime would distribute disaster relief “based on equity” by directing funds to “communities of color.”
In any case, there are no disaster funds for anybody. Homeland Security Secretary and open-borders enthusiast Alejandro Mayorkas broke the news to reporters on Air Force One that FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has no more money to address the crisis: “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the [storm] season and what — what is imminent.”
That deficit is a result of Homeland Security allocating $640.9 million this year alone in FEMA funds to aid state and local governments in processing and resettling illegal migrants swarming over the southern border which the Biden-Harris regime purposely left open. “Mayorkas and FEMA — immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and redirect those funds to areas hit by the hurricane. Put Americans first,” Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Wednesday. --->READ MORE HERE
Helicopter pilot threatened with arrest after flying rescue missions in flood-ravaged NC:
A South Carolina pilot who flew stranded Hurricane Helene victims in flood-ravaged North Carolina to safety claims he was told he would be arrested if he continued the rescue missions.
Jordan Seidhom was flying victims out of the devastation over the weekend when local leaders told him there was a flight restriction on the area and that they would have to arrest him if he continued making flights.
“There were other victims. As we were flying out leaving the area, we spotted within 300, 400 yards of their location [people] were waving for help as my son and I were leaving,” Seidhom told Queen City News.
After the storm wreaked havoc on the region, leaving hundreds of people stranded as entire roadways washed away, Seidhom read about a family that was stranded without water on a mountain in Banner Elk, a ski town heavily battered by the storm, and knew he had to take action.
“I thought, I have a helicopter, maybe I can help,” he told the outlet.
Seidhom, who once led the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office narcotics unit, and his teenage son Landon flew out bottled water and food to the family on Saturday and decided they would set out to find other people in need of help.
The father and son, both volunteer firefighters, flew four victims to safety on Saturday, including two women stranded at the top of a mountain and two vacationers trapped inside their Airbnb.
“They only had one day of supplies, which was gone by Saturday. They didn’t have any food, water, no running water, no power. And we were coming back this direction anyway, so we actually took them to Charlotte-Douglas Airport and they were able to fly home from there,” Seidhom said.
After sleeping in recliners in a pilot lounge at a nearby airport, the father and son went back out on Sunday and found a husband and wife who waved them down from their partially washed-away home.
Only equipped with his small helicopter, Seidhom had his son exit the aircraft to make room for the wife, whom he flew to a group of first responders about three minutes away.
“I originally left my son, co-pilot, on the side of the mountain. [The helicopter] was kind of unstable, so I didn’t want to put more weight on the helicopter to lift it back off. So, I left my son with the other victim. And I was just going to take one person down at the time,” Seidhom said. --->READ MORE HERE
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