Why did it take seven days for troops with helicopters, equipment, supplies, food, and water to be dispatched to southeast storm zones?
Last Updated: 24.06.2025 09:33
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
Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania
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To get from TN into NC (or vice versa) you are forced onto the yellow route
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia
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Representative Barry Moore of Alabama
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Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas
Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia
to the new staging areas (red area).
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Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri
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 Michael Cloud of Texas
Representative Cory Mills of Florida
Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi
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Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas
Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
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Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois
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 Nathaniel Moran of Texas
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Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia
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 Morgan Griffith of Virginia
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Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri
Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio
Representative William Timmons of South Carolina
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than the blue routes.
Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas
Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio
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Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
Senator Mike Lee of Utah
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Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
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 Russell Fry of South Carolina
Representative Roger Williams of Texas
Representative Tom McClintock of California
Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
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Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina
Representative Mike Collins of Georgia
Representative Max Miller of Ohio
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Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey
Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida
Senator James Risch of Idaho
Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas
Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona
Now we have a Cat 5 (Milton) locked on to Southwest Florida.
Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi
Representative Randy Weber of Texas
Representative Laurel Lee of Florida
Representative Chip Roy of Texas
Senator Mike Braun of Indiana
Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina
Representative Kat Cammack of Florida
Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana
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.
House members
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Which is almost 300 miles farther
Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
Because of this, state and federal authorities had to figure out how to move the assets from their “normal” staging areas (blue area)
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida
Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina
Representative Andy Harris of Maryland
Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
Representative Bob Good of Virginia
Representative Bill Posey of Florida
Representative Aaron Bean of Florida
Representative David Schweikert of Arizona
Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado
Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
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Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi
Senator Katie Britt of Alabama
Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa
Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
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 Morgan Lutrell of Texas
Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana
Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio
Representative John Curtis of Utah
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
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.
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
Representative Keith Self of Texas
Representative James Baird of Indiana
Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska
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 Jim Banks of Indiana
Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska
Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama
Representative Claudia Tenney of New York
Representative John Rose of Tennessee
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 Paul Gosar of Arizona
Representative Mary Miller of Illinois
Representative Ron Estes of Kansas
Representative Mike Bost of Illinois
Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona
Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee
Representative Lance Gooden of Texas
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Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota
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 Brad Finstad of Minnesota
Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
Representative Daniel Webster of Florida
Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana
Representative Mike Waltz of Florida
The rest of the landscape in not exactly conducive to move a lot of heavy traffic.
Representative Eli Crane of Arizona
Representative Byron Donalds of Florida