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    Kitsuma: you seem well established, and I'm grateful for that. If that changes and you need help, then let me know. We can coordinate a drop off somewhere. I have the means of both security and conveyance to get it over there, and probably one or two buddies to ride shotgun. Might take me a couple of days to get conops established because we have a three week old baby, but I can make it happen.

    Hope this still finds you and yours well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David A. Rowe View Post
    Kitsuma: you seem well established, and I'm grateful for that. If that changes and you need help, then let me know. We can coordinate a drop off somewhere. I have the means of both security and conveyance to get it over there, and probably one or two buddies to ride shotgun. Might take me a couple of days to get conops established because we have a three week old baby, but I can make it happen.

    Hope this still finds you and yours well.
    I saw on X quite a few reports that Fema/other federal agencies are turning citizens around/blocking access to people trying to run supplies in. While they're are good reasons for stopping anyone to just go into places and do whatever, combined with everything else I wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt.

    What I haven't seen is any evidence of this, so naturally I don't believe it. If you do go and if it does happen can you please take at least a phone video of it.

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    In fairness to FEMA, they assist the state and local governments, but it's state/local that's responsible for the physical response. Even the FEMA search and rescue teams are only sponsored by FEMA, but are trained and staffed under local organizations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    You're a good man, Kits, so you'll be okay. If you need anything we can provide, let us know when you can.

    Mark, I have intermittently browsed this forum for a few years, and finally decided to register so I could say this:
    I applaud your care and concern displayed here, along with the genuine offer to help if you can. Big picture, that's what it's all about. Well done.


    Quote Originally Posted by David A. Rowe View Post
    Kitsuma: you seem well established, and I'm grateful for that. If that changes and you need help, then let me know. We can coordinate a drop off somewhere. I have the means of both security and conveyance to get it over there, and probably one or two buddies to ride shotgun. Might take me a couple of days to get conops established because we have a three week old baby, but I can make it happen.

    Hope this still finds you and yours well.

    @David A. Rowe, I have admired your contributions, and your heart, for a while as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerald Boggs View Post
    In fairness to FEMA, they assist the state and local governments, but it's state/local that's responsible for the physical response. Even the FEMA search and rescue teams are only sponsored by FEMA, but are trained and staffed under local organizations.
    Good points. Civilian do-gooders and LARPers need to stay out of the way. Coordinating with local authorities is essential. The mountain people are pretty resilient and resourceful. (Transplanted Yankees not so much- they will need FEMA.)

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    Instapundit >> Blog Archive >> WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL, PART II: https://twitter.com/graduatedben/status/1841858630376681872

    NEW - Federal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has shut down aid flights into Western North Carolina.

    A NOTAM has been issued by the FAA that won’t allow anyone not approved by the state to fly aid missions. They said they would give permission but they’re not being cooperative at all. At least six m pilots from Virginia are being prevented from getting their aid shipments into Asheville Regional Airport.
    David, if "civilian do-gooders and LARPers stay out of the way," then Pete Buttigiug is your only hope? The state is devastated, and everybody working for the state has their own problems right now. And they are restricting drone flights -- wonder why that might be? Fuck FEMA, and fuck the DoT. And most importantly, fuck the state media for trying to keep this out of the public awareness before the election we may be allowed to have.

    There is a war in the Middle East, a war in Asia, the extreme devastation of 5 states, and a longshoreman's strike, all in the presence of a $35 trillion national debt, and this woman who has been 2nd in command for 3.5 years and her buffoon running mate want us to vote for her, while the media dutifully carries the water and runs cover.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Instapundit >> Blog Archive >> WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL, PART II: https://twitter.com/graduatedben/status/1841858630376681872



    David, if "civilian do-gooders and LARPers stay out of the way," then Pete Buttigieg is your only hope? The state is devastated, and everybody working for the state has their own problems right now. And they are restricting drone flights -- wonder why that might be? Fuck FEMA, and fuck the DoT. And most importantly, fuck the state media for trying to keep this out of the public awareness before the election we may be allowed to have.

    There is a war in the Middle East, a war in Asia, the extreme devastation of 5 states, and a longshoreman's strike, all in the presence of a $35 trillion national debt, and this woman who has been 2nd in command for 3.5 years and her buffoon running mate want us to vote for her, while the media dutifully carries the water and runs cover.
    Rip the governors of each state, TN and NC, have resources to be deployed to bring relief to the affected people. Both have plenty of National Guard helicopters and all terrain vehicles that are needed for the effort. Having the skies filled with do-gooder pilots- untrained for the mission is dangerous. A TFR will prevent aerial confliction with do-gooder pilots and YouTubers (LARPERS). Having roads blocked by do-gooders on the ground slows the process also. Local LIOs need to control access to eliminate would be looters.

    Pete Buttigieg is a non-factor. The Governor's use of the National Guard is the correct approach. Blaming the Feds is silly- they can only be relied on to print the money needed to write the checks to pay for the cost of Activating the Guard.

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    This is just like the fires in Maui.

    Why are they blocking civilian relief efforts?
    1. They don't wan't civilian journalists to document the clown-world incompetence and corruption.
    2. They don't want civilian relief efforts outshining the government programs.
    3. They don't want competition for the money flowing into the pockets of foreign NGOs.
    4. They want to foster dependence on government welfare.

    If you want to take a logical approach to the situation, you must also add reason number 5; several senior politicians, such as Myorkas, harbor a deep and profound hatred for rural White Americans affected by this disaster.

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    JONATHAN HOWARD, FLORIDA STATE GUARD: I really don't want to make this video, but it is literally a matter of life and death for the people of North Carolina. So, my name is Jonathan Howard. I'm a member of the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit.

    I'm also up here with Aerial Recovery, a non-profit. I came up here on Sunday with Aerial Recovery before we even got activated. We flew up here and then we got activated, which was great.

    I had my team up here working as well. Here's the problem. I'm going to tell you everything that's happening from the ground, what I'm actually seeing, because what they're telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news and these politicians don't have a f*cking clue and they're lying.

    I'll say this now. I'll say it at the end of the video. The only thing I need from this video is helicopters.

    If I have helicopters, I can save lives. Without helicopters, I can't reach these people. It doesn't matter how many chainsaws and trucks I got, I can't get to them.

    They're 10 miles in, 20 miles, 40 miles in the mountains. There's no way to get with them or even communicate with them. I am literally flying around in a civilian helicopter looking for SOS messages carved in the mud or painted on the ground and we're dropping down and saving them.

    What got me fired up about this was yesterday, me and my team did the rescue of that 11-day-year-old baby and all these government officials and social media, they're showing that video, that pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that they have some government help with that. Even USA Today wrote an article about it saying it was a Florida National Guard that went and got it with a helicopter. No, it was me, my buddy Charlie, and a civilian named Zeb with his own personal helicopter out of Wilmington, North Carolina.

    Without that civilian, that baby would be dead. And the old lady we went and rescued after that, she'd be dead too because she had one day left of oxygen. No one was going to go get them.

    I will tell you when we go up in the air, I probably see 40 civilian helicopters. I might see two Blackhawks, National Guard, military, whatever they are. That's it.

    No one's out there doing rescues. I have my entire team up here from Florida right now and they have no ability to go rescue these people other than what they can drive to. And the people that are in dire need, they're out in the mountains.

    They are completely cut off. Now I will say I spoke to my Congresswoman down in Florida and she's a badass and she made a bunch of phone calls and now we got two contracted 60s coming up here tomorrow, which is great. I love that, but like I still don't understand why we don't have more helicopters.

    Like we'll get a lot of work done with that, but there's no, there's no military. There's no, no one's doing nothing. I just, it blows my mind.

    And they're not even allowing people to see what's really going on. One of our friends yesterday, they were actually escorting CNN down to Lake Lure and they wouldn't even let CNN, the sheriff department would not let them go videotape the bad areas of how destructive it is. I don't know why they don't want to show you all that, but I mean, it is bad.

    I should also say when I flew here on Sunday, they actually stopped us from going in the sheriff department. And it was because of a bunch of politics that they were claiming was a speaker of the house of North Carolina that was preventing us from even going in and trying to kick us out, which I have clarified today with North Carolina politicians that reached out to me good on them. And they were like, that's complete.

    Speaker of the house has nothing. He wants you guys there, but this is a kind of political BS that is happening here right now. Like everyone's trying to be in charge without taking any type of action.

    Nobody wants to coordinate with anybody. Everybody wants to pretend like they're being the hero while these people are literally f*cking dying in the mountains. And these people, I'm saying these people are limited medication.

    They're running out of oxygen and there's no one going to get them. The most effective way I have found to go find these people is by getting in a helicopter and flying down the rivers and roads and looking for SOS messages or people waving us down. And then we dropped down and get them.

    We have all these people here. We have law enforcement. We have state guard, national guard.

    They have no way to go get these people. Yesterday when I was at the Asheville airport, refueling, which by the way, the civilian is paying all this out of his own pocket. He's not even looking for a reimbursement.

    I think we did four refuelings yesterday and that was like just in half a day's work. We're in Asheville. And I saw two air force helicopter sixties and I knew there were PJs just looking at them.

    And I went up to him like, Hey guys, like what are y'all doing? And like, this is what you need to be doing. This, this, this, this is how I'm finding people. And they're like, we can't go.

    We're waiting on title 10 orders. And I'm like, what? They just, they can't get any afforded. There's military helicopters all over here sitting on the ground and they can't do nothing.

    Even my JSOC boys in Fayetteville, they can't get orders to come out here. It is just the most disgusting thing. And they're killing these people.

    And I don't know why they're doing it. I don't know what kind of conspiracy I've heard so many things, whatever you want to come up with, but they are literally allowing these people to f*cking die in the mountains right now because we can't get helicopters. They got money for everything else in the f*cking world right now.

    But if they could just get us helicopters, we could fly out there and rescue these people. So I hope this video goes viral. I hope these politicians get fired.

    I hope people get pissed off. They'll probably kick me out of the state of North Carolina for doing this, but you know what? I don't care. Cause if I can save one more life for it, it's f*cking worth it to me.

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    If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN - you'll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.

    I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help.

    I cannot confirm the reasons why in NC, but i can tell you the reasons in other storms i have worked - i'll explain below.

    Let me share with you the first disaster area that i finally realized that this was all about money.

    In the FL Keys with Hurricane Irma, after Texas got hit with Harvey, we finished our efforts in Texas and were the first citizen team to make it to Key Largo.

    The federal agencies had US1 shut down just South of Key Largo and wouldn't let anyone in or out, even though the road was okay to pass.

    We explained to them that we had boats, Jet skis, food, water, chainsaws and fuel to bring these people.

    They didn't care and wouldn't let us in.

    It was night by that point and you rarely saw the lights of vehicles in the distance on the individual keys, meaning the emergency response teams from FEMA weren't even working, it was all quiet.

    We decided that we would go in anyways.

    We filled up the boats and jet skis with all that we could reasonably carry and went by water, around all their BS blockades and around their law enforcement presence on the water.

    It was 87 miles by water to get to our first stop, Cudjoe Key and Sugarloaf Key.

    When we arrived there we were greeted by a homeowner (for privacy, I won't name him, though we have video) who was elated to see us and all the supplies we brought, his house was in shambles.

    We started offloading supplies on the shoreline and helping to get them into what was left of his house.
    During that process, he explained to us that FEMA had set up a command center at a local high school on the island, but that they weren't doing anything to help the residents, not even bringing them WATER!

    Instead, he explained that they were driving around using a loudspeaker, telling people to stay in their homes. They weren't even helping the home owners with supplies.

    I was skeptical at first while he was telling me all of this, but then he said something that broke my heart....

    He told us that the people of the keys were all in despair, because they had just seen, weeks before, the overwhelming support for Texas with Hurricane Harvey, by the citizens of this country. He, and his neighbors on all of the keys, felt like Americans had forgotten about them completely, because at this point, FIVE DAYS after landfall, all they had seen was FEMA, and they were of NO HELP.

    The residents were cut off from the outside world, no cellular, no internet, no way to contact anyone or hear of any efforts to try to help them.

    The ONLY communication they had was from a local radio station on Sugarloaf Key, that was broadcasting on AM to the surrounding keys.

    The man, after hearing that there were citizens trying to bring them help, but being refused entry by federal law enforcement was visibly upset. He, and his neighbors, really thought the country had abandoned them.

    He insisted that we get into his waterlogged truck and that he would take us to that radio station so that we could go live on air, to tell the citizens trapped in the Keys that we, the American people, were there to help and that the government was trying to stop our efforts.

    And that is exactly what we did.

    After that, we were determined to help as many people as we could, but we were met with red tape throughout the whole process and time we were in the keys.

    We finally we able to talk some authorities to let us down to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon towards the end of Boot Key. This was the same hotel where state and local authorities were staging their personnel and they were happy to see us.

    I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down to the EOC in Marathon. I was privy to the EOC meeting, BUT was informed in that meeting, that all of the semi trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around and not allowed to be offloaded for distribution by the EOC.

    THE REASON they gave us, was that these donations were not from companies on their "preferred vendors list" and that they would not accept them or give them to the residents of the keys impacted by the storm.

    It was at that point that I realized, this is ALL ABOUT MONEY.

    These 'preferred vendors" are getting part of the money being released by the state and federal govt for each disaster. In turn, some of the "vendors" make it on the list because a friend gets them on the list, and in return for getting ridiculously outlandish amounts of compensation for the services they render, they give kickbacks.

    So accepting outside donations, even though they are on location and can help people NOW, they would rather let people suffer so they can get their kickbacks.

    This meeting solidified my resolve to help these people, regardless of what the greedy officials wanted, we were going to feed the lower keys that were being neglected.

    I diverted ALL SEMI TRUCKS to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon and filled the entire first floor with pallets upon pallets of food, water and essential supplies and created a food pantry for residents to come and get anything, and however much they needed.

    From local state troopers to the homeless, all were given wheel barrels and free reign to get anything they needed.

    We also delivered supplies down to Big Pine Key. We helped establish the tent city on Big Pine Key. Big companies like Titos Vodka and Whelen just kept bringing trucks full of everything that was needed. When FEMA FINALLY started handing out boxes of canned goods (limited to one per household), we were filing cars full of food and supplies for people and pets.

    There is so much more to the story in the Keys and further from there in other storms we worked- the common theme though, is that the federal government always tries to keep citizens from helping and the local authorities, the ones that live and work in the area are always happy to have outside help.

    I call out to Elon Musk and anyone else who can monetarily help people like myself and those that work with me, who have the knowledge and the will to help those devastated by these disasters.

    Help us side step the red tape and get the people the relief they need.

    We are willing, and we are many, and we are ready.

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