Helene Aftermath…Are You Ok?

[Pink Partridge]

Keep in mind dbl P, that was as of 3 days ago. I'm confident that there are many more as of tonight. That was the first number I came across on a simple G search.

I promise you, it's still not enough. I want better for these people. 600 Americans are missing. This should be wall to wall soldiers on location.

(Love my dbl P moniker! Thank you, DM )

 

[DCLMP]

Keep in mind dbl P, that was as of 3 days ago. I'm confident that there are many more as of tonight. That was the first number I came across on a simple G search.

The state governors send in the national guard. Not the federal government.

 

[luvthatduke]

I read this tonight:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/hurrican...lping-bring-supplies-residents-north-carolina

"One of the first families helped yesterday were in desperate need of insulin,
and Mountain Mule Packers was able to get it up this otherwise impassable road!!" the group wrote.

 

[Southernmiss]

The September 30th White House briefing on Hurricane relief efforts

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...tions-continued-response-to-hurricane-helene/

I picked out just 2 paragraphs that answer some questions. Article is much longer.

Search and rescue efforts by state, local and Federal partners are ongoing, and hundreds of additional personnel are arriving in the region in the coming days. Over 1,250 Urban Search and Rescue personnel are deployed across Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Together with local and state responders, teams have rescued or supported more than 1,900 people, including nearly 900 in North Carolina.

The U.S. Coast Guard crews have saved 19 lives and five pets in the response so far, with rescues continuing in North Carolina. They have thousands of personnel working on response efforts and are providing surface and air rescue assets to support search and rescue missions. Personnel continue addressing transportation concerns by ensuring ports and waterways are reopened safely.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

I didn't realize we had some disaster response and recovery experts on the boards! I hope they can volunteer their services to the federal and state agencies and civilian volunteer organizations currently coordinating the response. I've always thought the role of disaster response logistics would be a fulfilling job, though also stressful and sad I'm sure.

I've read not to head there to help unless you're prepared to camp, pack in all of your food, water, and fuel, be entirely self sufficient, and be prepared to hike in for miles and miles over broken unstable dangerous terrain strewn with debris. As I'm not prepared for or trained for anything like that, I'll donate $ and resources and stay home.

 

[Pink Partridge]

I didn't realize we had some disaster response and recovery experts on the boards! I hope they can volunteer their services to the federal and state agencies and civilian volunteer organizations currently coordinating the response.

Thank God for our volunteers in this country.

 

[DCLMP]

Thank God for our volunteers in this country.

Every time I see one of these disasters it highlights the fact that you can’t depend on help coming for days. It’s really important that people have some preps for an emergency. At a minimum 2 weeks of food and water, first aid supplies etc…etc.

 

[Dan Murphy]

(Love my dbl P moniker! Thank you, DM

The state governors send in the national guard. Not the federal government.

Standard operating procedures. State National Guards are within the states, their response is always much more immediate and first line of rescue and recovery efforts. Federal, active duty personnel are ordered in, as our President did, if the need is present. Rare situations for active duty to be used.

Every time I see one of these disasters it highlights the fact that you can’t depend on help coming for days. It’s really important that people have some preps for an emergency. At a minimum 2 weeks of food and water, first aid supplies etc…etc.

Again, standard suggestions from various governing bodies on an ongoing basis and in the days before expected disasters. People are told to expect to be on their own for possibly days before rescue personnel can reach them. Just smart sense to do that and be personally prepared.

 

[Southernmiss]

Today's update

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...onse-efforts-in-response-to-hurricane-helene/
As part of this coordinated response, today, President Biden is announcing he has directed the Department of Defense to deploy up to 1,000 active-duty soldiers to support the delivery of food, water, and other critical commodities to communities impacted by Hurricane Helene. The announcement is effective immediately, and these forces will be available for deployment starting today. This action will provide additional manpower and logistics capabilities, enabling FEMA and other interagency partners to reach the hardest hit areas as quickly as possible.

 

[Pink Partridge]

Today's update

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...onse-efforts-in-response-to-hurricane-helene/
As part of this coordinated response, today, President Biden is announcing he has directed the Department of Defense to deploy up to 1,000 active-duty soldiers to support the delivery of food, water, and other critical commodities to communities impacted by Hurricane Helene. The announcement is effective immediately, and these forces will be available for deployment starting today. This action will provide additional manpower and logistics capabilities, enabling FEMA and other interagency partners to reach the hardest hit areas as quickly as possible.

Hallelujah!!!! So many people dead. So many people missing. They need help.

 

[DCLMP]

Standard operating procedures. State National Guards are within the states, their response is always much more immediate and first line of rescue and recovery efforts. Federal, active duty personnel are ordered in, as our President did, if the need is present. Rare situations for active duty to be used.

Again, standard suggestions from various governing bodies on an ongoing basis and in the days before expected disasters. People are told to expect to be on their own for possibly days before rescue personnel can reach them. Just smart sense to do that and be personally prepared.

I think our standard operating procedures need to be improved. It’s really not a good excuse.

 

[Kennywood]

Douglas Lake rose over 21 feet. As expected, water made its way from the Nolichucky, Pigeon & French Broad Rivers after the insane flooding in the mountain towns. Look at the debris sitting in Douglas Lake now. Trees, propane tanks, people's homes & lives from up in those mountains...and we can only imagine what else. That amount of water equates to 182 billion gallons.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I think our standard operating procedures need to be improved. It’s really not a good excuse.

Write your congress person, take the initiative, change procedural operations, get involved beyond a Disney message board. Go DC, you can do it!

 

[DCLMP]

Write your congress person, take the initiative, change procedural operations, get involved beyond a Disney message board. Go DC, you can do it!

You don’t need to be condescending Dan. Anyone with half a brain knows that’s useless.

 

[sam_gordon]

Even with a Hurricane where you can predict the path, don't TPTB need to wait to see what areas actually need disaster relief? They can put some people closer (which it sounds like they did) before the event, then it will take a couple of days to figure out A) where the problem areas are B) how many problem areas there are C) what kind of problem areas there are and D) what kind of people they need to solve the problems.

People are complaining literally within days that "not enough is being done"? Yea, I also didn't know we had so many experts in Disaster Recovery on here.

 

[HeatherC]

Hallelujah!!!! So many people dead. So many people missing. They need help.

Today's update

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...onse-efforts-in-response-to-hurricane-helene/
As part of this coordinated response, today, President Biden is announcing he has directed the Department of Defense to deploy up to 1,000 active-duty soldiers to support the delivery of food, water, and other critical commodities to communities impacted by Hurricane Helene. The announcement is effective immediately, and these forces will be available for deployment starting today. This action will provide additional manpower and logistics capabilities, enabling FEMA and other interagency partners to reach the hardest hit areas as quickly as possible.

Took long enough! Always, always, always too little too late.

 

[Pink Partridge]

People are complaining literally within days that "not enough is being done"? Yea, I also didn't know we had so many experts in Disaster Recovery on here.

I am not an expert, but I do know that volunteers (skilled and unskilled) were there within 24 hours.

It should not take 5 days to save dying Americans.

 

[sam_gordon]

I am not an expert, but I do know that volunteers (skilled and unskilled) were there within 24 hours.

It should not take 5 days to save dying Americans.

So no one has been saved in the last 5 days?

 

[Southernmiss]

Those who say it shouldn't take several days have you been in a large catastrophe like a hurricane?

 

[Dan Murphy]

Those who say it shouldn't take several days have you been in a large catastrophe like a hurricane?

It's always easy for the proverbial Monday morning, armchair quarterbacking folks to voice after the fact shoulda, coulda, woulda solutions.