Helene continues to be a homewrecker. The hurricane that swept through western North Carolina in October, ravaging towns, destroying roads, burying people, and ruining lives, continues to haunt North Carolinians. Is the government doing what it should to help? It doesn't seem so.   

We tend to forget unless reminded, but people are still suffering in North Carolina. America was assured that FEMA was there to help. And maybe they were, but we were also told that claims of FEMA slow walking desperately needed help and aid were nasty, baseless rumors. Until they weren't rumors. A FEMA crew leader told her team to avoid houses with Trump signs. She was fired, but she had a lot to say. 

[N]ow that unemployed official is talking, and she's revealing there's much more to the story. Her name is Marn'i Washington, and she was a reservist disaster assistance crew leader. She spoke to Roland Martin on his show "Roland Martin Unfiltered" on the Black Star Network on Monday evening and said the avoidance in question was "not isolated" and was part of a broader agency approach. 

She alleged it was a "colossal event of avoidance not just in the state of Florida" but that it also happened "in the Carolinas." She said, "Senior leadership will lie to you and tell you they did not know." But she said if you asked the people in the field, they would tell you.  

She claimed that the avoidance was about keeping teams safe.

Before that, we watched as FEMA employees gave each other virtual hugs on a Zoom call demanding that FEMA prioritize help based on DEI.   

FEMA Disaster Preparedness Meeting:

"We should focus our efforts on LGBTQIA people… they struggled before the storm"

"FEMA relief is no longer about getting the greatest good for the greatest amount of people…. It's about disaster equity." pic.twitter.com/IqXeKI8OTT

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 7, 2024

We learned that rebuilding roads that were destroyed might take a year. Coal miners from West Virginia said, “Not on your life.”  

A group of coal miners from West Virginia have finished building a road from Big Chimney in under a week.

A road that North Carolina Government Officials said would take several months to a year for them to do. #appalachianstrong pic.twitter.com/Y5E9BWbcAM

— Appalachian Liberty (@Liberty_Xtreme) October 26, 2024

I mused about the coal miners not pulling permits and maybe not submitting an environmental impact report (in triplicate). I guess I wasn’t far off. 

Remember when a group of men from West Virginia worked 16 hour days to build the road back to Bat Cave North Carolina so people affected by Helene flooding could access their homes and supplies? Local government installed a gate to prevent access and some patriot has removed it… pic.twitter.com/DpSQQzR2F9

— Nashville Angela (@angelanashtn) November 19, 2024

No doubt that government officials are claiming that the road built by coal miners wasn't constructed to last, and someone might get hurt driving on it. 

Then fix it. 

When America was brought into World War II, America ramped up. American workers got it done. By example: 

Liberty Ships, the "Ugly Duckling" workhorses of World War II, were built in 13 states by 15 companies in 18 shipyards. The first of 2,710 Liberty ships, the SS Patrick Henry, was launched in September 1941, after 150 days of construction. (The shipyard was built at the same time as the ship.)  

The Liberty ship Robert E. Peary was built in four days, 15 hours, and 29 minutes — entire ship built in under a week. If government wanted to get things "done" in North Carolina, things would get done. Government in western North Carolina isn’t solving problems; it is doing what it does best: It’s putting up roadblocks. Literal roadblocks. 

We had the same game going on 321 in East TN (Poga and Elk Mills area) with TDOT and the Tennessee Highway Patrol putting up barricades then gates then concrete blocks to try to stop us from accessing our own road 4 weeks after storm. The game went on for 2 weeks of them putting… pic.twitter.com/RlqMZqg9p8

— Ryan - Wake up America (@RyanLayne17) November 20, 2024

Is government helping to house people who lost everything? 

While federal employees are mostly working from home, people in western North Carolina don’t have homes. FEMA people are cutting videos and claiming they are doing their best. Are they? 

🚨#BREAKING: Officials at FEMA have just posted a new video touring brand housing units they say are available to #WNC.

What they fail to mention in the video is that in the 2 months since in the hurricane... only FOUR UNITS have been delivered.

You read that right.

Four. pic.twitter.com/9X5HXllmqA

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) November 20, 2024

Why the delay? Why is FEMA producing videos but not delivering housing to people who are living in tents? 

I hate that I even have to post this.

Here is aerial footage I shot this morning of one of the many "tent cities" in #WNC due to Helene.

FEMA says these don't exist. Yet, here it is.

So, where are you FEMA? Why have you abandoned us?

I don't understand. pic.twitter.com/afH5mLobpp

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) November 18, 2024

Is there a reason — a legitimate reason? Or is FEMA doing what government always does? Nothing productive. Winter is right around the corner. Units are waiting. And for what? 

🚨BREAKING🚨

Whistleblower from NCGA reveals there are FEMA trailers sitting in Hickory right now and FEMA has no timeline on when those will be deployed to those who need them.

Meanwhile, people across the region are sleeping in tents. Tonight it will snow - and the temps will… pic.twitter.com/wUkpkNULj1

— Cassie Clark (@dogwoodblooms) November 20, 2024

Everyone recalls what happened in New Orleans, and a lot of the stories turned out to be myth. Here is actual evidence of people in desperate need and FEMA is sitting on its hands.