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

Last Updated: 30.06.2025 01:57

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

Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

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Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

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Representative Chip Roy of Texas

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Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

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

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Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

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Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

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Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

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Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

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Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

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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 Lauren Boebert of Colorado

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Senator Mike Lee of Utah

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Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

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Representative Cory Mills of Florida

Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

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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 Warren Davidson of Ohio

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

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Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

They are listed above.

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama

Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

Representative Bob Good of Virginia

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

Senator Mike Braun of Indiana

Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

than the blue routes.

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

Representative John Rose of Tennessee

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 Keith Self of Texas

Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

Representative Bill Posey of Florida

Representative Max Miller of Ohio

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!!!”.

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

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 Kat Cammack of Florida

Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

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 Dan Bishop of North Carolina

Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma

Representative John Curtis of Utah

Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

Representative Tom McClintock of California

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

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 Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

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 Michael Guest of Mississippi

Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

Representative James Baird of Indiana

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

to the new staging areas (red area).

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)

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

Representative Roger Williams of Texas

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

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

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Senator James Risch of Idaho

Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

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

Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

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 Andy Ogles of Tennessee

Which is almost 300 miles farther