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

Last Updated: 02.07.2025 11:40

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

Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

What do you think about wearing sheer pantyhose?

Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

Representative Keith Self of Texas

Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

Why does Russia seem so angry over the US and UK missile strikes in Ukraine?

Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

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 Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

How can you determine which type of underwear to wear with different styles of clothing, such as dresses?

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 Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama

Scientists Detect Radio Burst From Deepest Space, Then Realize It's Just A Satellite, Then Realize The Satellite Was Signaling From Beyond The Grave - Jalopnik

Which is almost 300 miles farther

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

Why did Britain steal Gibraltar from Spain?

Representative Roger Williams of Texas

Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

Senator James Risch of Idaho

How do scientists behave?

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.

to the new staging areas (red area).

Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

NASA warns: massive anomaly spreads across Earth, linked to mysterious forces beneath the surface - Glass Almanac

Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

Representative Chip Roy of Texas

Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

Ananda Lewis’ sister reveals former MTV VJ’s dying wish - New York Post

Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

Representative James Baird of Indiana

Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

Do older women know what they want?

Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

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

Representative Randy Weber of Texas

Can whey protein cause allergies in people sensitive to milk?

Representative Cory Mills of Florida

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

House members

What is a partner in crime?

Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina

Representative Bob Good of Virginia

71-year-old man makes history with world record for bench pressing - 11Alive.com

Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

Representative John Rose of Tennessee

Senate

In Dan Muse, Penguins pick coach with uncommon resume, knack for development - TribLIVE.com

Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

What are the strangest feeding mechanisms found in sea creatures?

Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

Senator Mike Lee of Utah

Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

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.

Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

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 Warren Davidson of Ohio

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia

Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

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

Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

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 Rand Paul of Kentucky

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 Troy Balderson of Ohio

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

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 Claudia Tenney of New York

Representative John Curtis of Utah

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma

Representative Tom McClintock of California

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

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 Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

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

Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

than the blue routes.

Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

Senator Mike Braun of Indiana

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

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

They are listed above.

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.

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 Morgan Griffith of Virginia

Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

Representative Bill Posey of Florida

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

Representative Max Miller of Ohio

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi

Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

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 Byron Donalds of Florida