Why did it take seven days for troops with helicopters, equipment, supplies, food, and water to be dispatched to southeast storm zones?
Last Updated: 22.06.2025 02:46

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