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

Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona

Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

I keep hitting my front tooth with my glass while bringing it to my mouth unintentionally and the nerve in the tooth keeps pulsating. Does hitting the tooth like this cause damage enough that I could lose the tooth?

Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi

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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.

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 Jim Jordan of Ohio

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Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

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.

Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

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Representative Max Miller of Ohio

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

Representative Roger Williams of Texas

Why am I not losing weight despite eating 1500 calories daily? Male 24y 161kg 174cm and obese. My calorie tracking is on point, I mostly eat prepackaged food and occasionally cook for myself measuring only the raw ingredients, yes including the oil.

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

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Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

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.

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Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

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to the new staging areas (red area).

Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

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Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

Senator Mike Lee of Utah

Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

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Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

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Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

What disturbed you today?

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

They are listed above.

Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

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Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

Representative Cory Mills of Florida

MAGA talking heads are saying that no MAGA child would publicly cry for their father, and want Gus Walz investigated as a crisis actor. I cried for my father and mother when they won or lost in life, am I a weird conservative or is MAGA messed up?

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

Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

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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 Beth Van Duyne of Texas

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 Andrew Clyde of Georgia

Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

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 Daniel Webster of Florida

Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

Representative Keith Self of Texas

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

Senator Mike Braun of Indiana

than the blue routes.

Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

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:

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

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

Representative Bill Posey of Florida

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

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:

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma

Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Representative Randy Weber of Texas

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

Representative Chip Roy 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 Troy Balderson of Ohio

Representative John Curtis of Utah

Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

House members

Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

Representative Tom McClintock of California

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Representative John Rose of Tennessee

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

Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

Representative Bob Good of Virginia

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

Representative James Baird of Indiana

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.

Senate

Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama

Which is almost 300 miles farther

Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

Senator James Risch of Idaho

Senator Ted Budd of North 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 Barry Moore of Alabama

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.