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

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 John Curtis of Utah

Representative Roger Williams of Texas

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Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina

Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

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Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

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.

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Representative Keith Self of Texas

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

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

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Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

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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.

Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

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Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi

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Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

Representative Tom McClintock of California

Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

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Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

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Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

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Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

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

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

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Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

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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

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

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than the blue routes.

Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

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Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

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Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama

Representative Bob Good of Virginia

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

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.

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 Daniel Webster of Florida

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Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

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Senator James Risch of Idaho

Representative Max Miller of Ohio

Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

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

Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

Representative Bill Posey of Florida

Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

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

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio

Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

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.

Senator Mike Braun of Indiana

Representative Cory Mills of Florida

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

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 Clay Higgins of Louisiana

Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

Which is almost 300 miles farther

to the new staging areas (red area).

Senator Mike Lee of Utah

Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

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 Randy Weber of Texas

Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

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 John Rose of Tennessee

Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma

Representative Chip Roy of Texas

Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

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.

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

House members

Representative James Baird of Indiana

Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona