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

Last Updated: 17.06.2025 12:18

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

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 Roger Williams of Texas

Representative John Curtis of Utah

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Representative Ralph Norman 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.

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

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Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

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Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

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.

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Representative Randy Weber of Texas

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

Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina

How many boxes 600 x 400 x 200 go into a 20ft container?

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

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than the blue routes.

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma

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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 Tom McClintock of California

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

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Representative Bob Good of Virginia

Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

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.

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Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

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 Gus Bilirakis of Florida

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Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio

Which is almost 300 miles farther

House members

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Representative Max Miller of Ohio

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

Representative Keith Self of Texas

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Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

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Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

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Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

Representative John Rose of Tennessee

Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

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

Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

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 Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

Representative Chip Roy of Texas

Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

Senator Mike Lee of Utah

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

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

Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi

Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

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 Russ Fulcher of Idaho

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Senator James Risch of Idaho

Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

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 Jim Banks of Indiana

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

Representative James Baird of Indiana

Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

to the new staging areas (red area).

Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia

Representative Bill Posey of Florida

Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

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

Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Representative Cory Mills of Florida

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Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama

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 Mike Collins of Georgia

Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

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 Barry Moore of Alabama

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

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 Troy Balderson of Ohio

Senator Mike Braun of Indiana