Why did it take seven days for troops with helicopters, equipment, supplies, food, and water to be dispatched to southeast storm zones?
09.06.2025 07:55

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