'BIBLICAL Devastation', Unhinged Conspiracies As Hurricane RAMPAGES

[@Tylervrooman]

Our community burnt down. Federal government: Whats that? You want more war funding? Our town flooded. Feds: Did you say defense budget? Our water is poison. Feds: Best we can do is more war...

[@martinwoollett8468]

Don't you have a state gov?

[@McP1mpin]

We have to keep looking forward and vote for the current administration!

[@Cj2o]

@@martinwoollett8468 Doesn't Ukraine have their own government? So what's your point?

[@insanittiez4860]

You practically proved Krystal statement of how you guys will believe absolutely anything that is anti government. We have FEMA, state governments also have their own funds for these and the federal government still allocates funding for situations like this. But don’t let that get in the way of your braindead beliefs

[@josephnolan8217]

100%

[@clarktownsend8991]

I ate at the Wendy's 3 weeks ago 😢 I wonder when Israel will send aid to these people?

[@PurpleMonkeyDishwasher88]

Money and aid only flows one direction with Israelis

[@Kevin51611]

lol

[@pokeredandblue2383]

@@chemtrails8404what’s your name so we can write it down?

[@jobarmure6169]

US politician : "after this Hurricane Devastation, we decided to increase the annual military support to Isra*** from 5 billions to 6 billions"

[@LongDefiant]

No socialism for hurricane enjoyers

[@dojan]

That was my niece's house (a rental) washing down the street in Asheville. She is safe, but as an artist, she lost all her work, and worse yet, her studio is also gone. She is fortunate that she has family who can help and is able to stay with my brother while she gets back on her feet. Most people outside of Ashville are too poor to get back on track.

[@frevazz3364]

Having visited Asheville area twice in recent years you are correct, there is a lot poverty and not much infrastructure and this was before this disaster.

[@WinginWolf]

I hope she can recover a lot of her life. Best wishes to you, her, and your family.

[@LongDefiant]

She's a strong individual. She doesn't need help. Just bootstraps.

[@frevazz3364]

@@LongDefiant bootstraps can’t rebuild roads and businesses

[@ldIezz]

@@frevazz3364so true those roads in the Smokey mountains on a good day are sketchy so many homes just hanging off cliffs this is gonna be very bad

[@thetaoist8]

In Tennessee, despite the efforts that have been needed in East TN, they just sent hundreds of our own National Guardsmen to Kuwait this weekend...

[@joshuaortiz2031]

Typical

[@LongDefiant]

BOOTSTRAPS!!!

[@ab8588]

Thank you: Bebe Netanyahu

[@TreiberSeptim]

Average red state

[@justinlumpkin1874]

in the wake of this natural disaster in North Carolina, we must send more aid to israel - Biden tomorrow probably

[@cris471]

And don’t forget Ukraine, they need our money too

[@pragmaticparadox5981]

He already said it. $8.7B more to Israel, $8B to Ukraine, and $570 miliion to Taiwan. He also said there will be no additional hurricane relief funding. Video came out yesterday as he was boarding AF One. Flint's water is still poison, Palestine, Ohio's train derailment is still poisoning the groundwater, and natives of Lahaina are still sleeping in tents in the ashes of their former town. Yet people will still vote for this insanity.

[@danfors676]

And all the republicans in both chambers of congress.

[@aesop1451]

@@cris471 Except a Ukraine lobby doesn't exist. These two wars are not identical.

[@antistupid4712]

​@@aesop1451the Democratic party? I remember when the Dem party didn't unilaterally support wars with endless spending. It shows that both parties can be infiltrated by the military industrial complex. Wake up everyone.

[@reaperdragon1]

How many of these people do you think will have to file lawsuits against their insurance because they won't cover them since they didn't have flood protection

[@markUTview]

I’m sure Biden is getting $700 checks ready for them.

[@tucfoto]

After the house was washed away. Please show me your house and the damage.

[@fwdcnorac8574]

Flood protection is mandatory for every insurance company and is underwritten by a third-party insurance company. Also, it only costs about $10/month. The fact is most people waive flood insurance. Proof? I'm an insurance broker with over 1100 clients. Most of my clients sign the waiver to get their premiums down.

[@IronmanV5]

How many will have to do so because the insurance company will lie and claim that the damage is from flooding

[@zachbarnes2538]

@@fwdcnorac8574not to mention….why keep offering flood policies for areas in hurricane paths. Not saying this area fits that description but some places particularly in Florida get hit regularly.

[@Coats2112]

How many politicians took bribes to allow contractors to build subdivisions on known flood plains? Don't make the Insurance Company the ONLY bad guys in this situation. They play their part, but so do other unaccountable persons...

[@austintrousdale2397]

Understood, but may we also be honest that “the red tape” and regulations that prevent more things from being built “anywhere and everywhere” are sometimes actually necessary? ✌️

[@anthonytwohill9726]

Idk but Republicans in Red States stop any measure trying to regulate home building. There was a measure brought to the Florida state house to force new buildings in disaster areas to be fortified against hurricanes and that measure got squashed by Repubs.

[@Swampratatta]

that’s not how floodplains work

[@FlJean55]

- Not a flood zone issue as many towns where built next to rivers for transportation

[@DamianBadalamenti]

Mountain towns historically are built on rivers for obvious reasons.

[@trumanpeyote5876]

Thank you for reporting on this. I have been in the Asheville area for 10 years and this will change WNC forever. Please help Asheville and the surrounding towns as there is no water, groceries, or gas for many. The response from the federal government has been virtually non existent. Our small communities are strong and banding together, but we need help. Whole towns are gone.

[@frevazz3364]

Probably the complication is the mountainous terrain and the roads washed away, hard to get help in.

[@SecretMarsupial]

Cover the biochemical lab fire in Conyers, GA. Just east of Atlanta. I feel our officials are lying to us about the severity of this and given the corruption here and demographics of the community i feel as though we may be denied due attention, honesty and justice. Many feel as though we have just been poisoned like East Palestine, OH but likely wont get the same attention. There were reports of clouds of gas descending on certain communities and this could cause some nasty, widespread health issues.

[@talyahr3302]

Sounds like you should contact local news about that. It's a lab fire.

[@mvondoom]

wow thanks for flagging this

[@SecretMarsupial]

@@talyahr3302certain local outlets are covering it but the coverage leaves something to be desired. While this event is very recent i hope as much attention could be brought to it as possible

[@creameedwards9518]

17,000 evacuated so far

[@BajatheChickenMan]

East Palestine, Ohio 2.0. in the making.

[@pwetty4r4]

Another key piece of the story: America's infrastructure is failing and we're spending money on everything but what we need to 😃

[@kinglmao6210]

There was literally a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill passed. 500 billion of it went building roads, bridges, water systems and more. I hate when people comment stuff like you did. Either you’re malicious lying by saying that we’re not spending money to upgrade or just so damn partisan that you don’t care.

[@peterroberts4415]

It doesn't matter if bridges and roads were brand new. They would have been washed away from these catastrophic floods

[@jackied962]

We spend the money, it's just corruption that prevents that money from ever doing anything. That money just gets caught up impact studies and reports for a decade.

[@pwetty4r4]

@@kinglmao6210 new dams don't just break like the one in Tennessee did. New bridges don't just break. Even before the storms we've seen an increase in power outages that last way longer than they ever had in the past

[@criticaloptimist]

@@pwetty4r4no, we’ve seen more extreme weather events. My friend works for my local power company and she said technology has improved to where they can better identify and isolate outages and quickly respond. So regular power outages are way less common here these days, but it doesn’t matter if a severe weather event hits. Same with our roads. Yes, we have a huge problem with our bridges, but this type of weather event is beyond what most of these things are built for. In 93, a part of the levee broke and washed out a massive area in missouri. It was pinned on a guy that very likely had nothing to do with it, and engineers say it was a design flaw. 100 year floods test everything. But are any dams really designed for three feet of rain in 24 hours? Power outages and extreme weather go together. But in other situations that aren’t weather, that’s different. Texas has a messed up system in general. California doesn’t have enough infrastructure to handle the demand. Power lines in an Oregon were too old and during a massive wind storm were not turned off in time to prevent massive wildfires. Those situations are different.

[@Redwd-CROW]

WNC resident here, the damage is catastrophic. It will be a long recovery. First time I’m now able to get cell service to see the damage around us. Never thought Asheville or this area would ever face this kind of catastrophic flooding.

[@katelady1370]

Musk stated he would send starlink to Florida and Trump stated NC needs it too. At least someone is thinking of NC. It’s not the people running the current government that’s for sure

[@Free-g8r]

The government won't help these people much but at least the US just gave another $8.7 billion for Israel to restock their missile stockpiles!

[@Scallers813]

Oh, well helping American people doesn’t enrich lobbying defense contractors so they don’t really care.

[@JKnksrsly]

It's actually for the foreskin harvesting factory/nursery

[@BurtTurbo]

and on and on it will go until Americans realize BOTH parties don’t work for them.

[@bighoss4189]

Don't forget the $8 billion to ukraine

[@caseyb1346]

@@bighoss4189 that too!

[@talyahr3302]

As an NC native, I never expected Asheville of all places to be hit like that. And theyre saying theres multiple damns about to break in Appalachia. So it may get worse very quickly. We're going to need a ton of resources to help rebuild.

[@carlozcabrera]

Sorry no socialism here. Biden is about to toss toilet paper at ppl.

[@RandomHajile-j7z]

If this is just gonna happen basically every August / September from now on, we may have to rethink what areas can realistically be considered safe for humans to permanently live in.

[@PnoidNews123]

its appalachia they aint gonna help us and if they do they will never leave and corrupt our children more don't ask for these peoples help

[@RandomRabbit007]

@@RandomHajile-j7z This is true. Doesn't make sense to rebuild a place that's going to need yearly rebuilding. Gotta move to places that are less likely to be completely destroyed by nature (or pay for that risk yourself). Alot of Florida and Louisiana is going to have a problem with this in the coming decades.

[@ash231]

​@@RandomHajile-j7z asheville is 300 miles from the coast.

[@Earwithfoot]

The term “Once in a lifetime storm” needs to be retired.

[@jeffreywitty3088]

you can do "once in a lifetime" 3 times a year in America! (but this is not what I envisioned)

[@nextinstitute7824]

Biblical floods? Scrapped from the bible?

[@GS-kj5pc]

Perhaps we should start naming these storms after big oil execs

[@fwdcnorac8574]

Maybe people should purchase full coverage instead of waiving coverage like flood insurance. It's no different than auto insurance. People, no matter how much you tell them not to, will only get state minimum coverage to keep their premiums low. Then, when disaster hits, they want to know why the insurance companies aren't covering them.

[@GlutenEruption]

@@fwdcnorac8574 you can't even GET flood insurance in most of Florida anymore due to climate change. What are they supposed to do?

[@Yaboiii_123]

Krystal seems legitimately surprised by how conspiratorial our politics have become as if she doesn’t realize the way the Covid era broke almost everyone.

[@kevmat8163]

Krystal played a giant role in the Covid 19 conspiracy. She was wrong and atrocious and never apologized for her delusional stances

[@NewEarthAwakening]

I’m also surprised she’s never even heard of H A A R P. The purpose of the whole thing is to stimulate and direct weather patterns. Yeah, people are going to find that sinister, duh! Harvard and MIT were running stories about how dangerous of a technology it was back in the early aughts. It’s pretty naive to thing massive government DOD projects like this or gain of function research are just built for scientific curiosity.

[@seanzibonanzi64]

It's the worst when flooding happens in a place where flooding isn't normal and none of the infrastructure is prepared.

[@brandonhultgren5776]

Just like how no one knows what to do when it snows south of Atlanta.

[@nikkio.9990]

Especially unexpected flooding in a mountainous area. mountainous areas are hard to traverse as it is.

[@frevazz3364]

Western NC is mountainous and hard to get around in normal conditions so with roads washed away its a nightmare.

[@ldIezz]

@@brandonhultgren5776south of Asheville is where the cut off is for good drivers in the snow 😂

[@bapbap22]

I used to work in disaster resilience. We knew this was going to be an extremely destructive storm. I left the field two years ago because in my professional experience people don’t care about natural disasters beyond the media cycle.

[@lennyjenkins9931]

Including the victims.

[@writerconsidered]

What the pathetic losers will do is bailout the insurance companies with no mandate to help to help the insured. And the insurance companies will pocket the money and pay off their shareholders and still screw over the insured and bail out of the region.

[@user-xm3wd8tz6d]

Don’t pay attention to the kooks. Pay attention to why the media isn’t covering this like it should. It bums me out the same way Katrina did. No people in our country should be suffering like this with no help and attention to get help. Those poor people. 😢

[@sergiolopez0407]

It was literally all i saw on the news from Thursday to Sunday

[@assertivekarma1909]

If it's not one of the big coastal metros, don't expect the corrupt/incompetent Gov behemoth to become fully mobilized.

[@seanwhelan6960]

So how SHOULD the media cover it? I live far away from NC, but it’s all that’s on my news. Some people just want a conspiracy they can latch onto because it makes the world make sense. And anyone in the hurricane zone will never (understandably) think enough help or attention was given them. But a vast hurricane making machine government conspiracy this is not.

[@DamianBadalamenti]

WTF, they were talking about it everywhere and everyone is talking about it. The national guard is on the ground now. There's no magic wand to make this stuff go away. How has reality become so difficult for so many.

[@mr.mr.3301]

I live an hour south of Asheville. The mountains got it worse 30 plus inches of rain. It rained almost 24 hours before the eye and the highest winds got here.

[@zanzibarzy2877]

why tf are people instantly politicizing this so much? There are substantial resources being devoted to recovery efforts happening at every fed, state, local level. I live in Johnson City, TN, fortunately we're mostly fine as our city isn't on a river, but every major river around flooded severely, just 10 minutes north of me Elizabethton was badly flooded. The storm was not expected to be a big problem, but it rained for 2 days straight before the storm even got here causing way more flooding, and the storm moved very fast from Florida up to TN. We don't need politicians flying in to do photo ops and make speeches, we need to let emergency services do their job, which they are

[@pickettmandi]

Probably because we spend a trillion a year on our "defense" not to mention the billions that have gone to Ukraine and Isreal for war. Americans are fed up and some of that money....a fraction of that money could help tremendously.

[@GoofusPlays]

Infinite money for ukraine, nothing for american citizens

[@platoniczombie]

The cities get bailed out, just not the citizens. Only rich people get socialism, not us peasants

[@insanittiez4860]

You realize FEMA exists right. Plus which party keeps trying to defund them

[@Deeplycloseted435]

NATO and AIPAC are more important, of course.

[@fwdcnorac8574]

Americans should have purchased flood insurance instead of signing the waiver to lower their premiums. Those homeowners who signed the waiver don't have a leg to stand on. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

[@kajagoogoo9613]

​@platoniczombie oh no, the peasants get socialism too. Socialized LOSSES!

[@Marchofthefireants1]

I wonder if any other country going to send is aid?

[@mrfarax4944]

Israel will don't worry

[@insanittiez4860]

If we ever experience something like Ukraine, then yes

[@Memetic-Info-Hazard-Handler]

​@@insanittiez4860If we ever experience anything like Ukraine, it's because all our allies have failed.

[@jeffreywitty3088]

Canada does, every time, without request. Volunteers, you can tell them by the use of Robertson screws (square slot, not a star like Phillips) Years back I believe Tim Hortons (Canadian Starbucks) shipped/provided unlimited coffee to aid workers & literal metric tons of bottled water (b4 the Wendy's merger)

[@IronmanV5]

Mexico sent aid after Katrina

[@jameshaluska7644]

Why is the US deploying 700 of the Tennessee National Guard to the Middle East?

[@ReyMy-dx3ku]

To protect Israel, because that's the American capital. I mean don't you know your own country?

[@PendulumCancel]

You make it sound like the American government is supposed to work for us go eyms. That ain't the way it works, bud. We were not chosen.

[@jessicabosco3009]

There have recently been national guard or something sent to nc I'm pretty sure

[@bradbesco6595]

Sorry, we can’t afford to help you. We gave all your tax dollars to Zelenskyy and Bibii 😢

[@MoCsomeone]

Helping poor working class Americans is pure evil known as socialism. Can't do that under any circumstance. That psychotic mentality has absolutely nothing to do with Ukraine or Israel...

[@MoCsomeone]

Lol as if that makes any difference at all. There will never be money for the working class, that's soshullism. We would never ever be able to afford that lol. It's really cute though that you think there is a possibility that without Israel and Ukraine that America would willingly do anything to help working class Americans disaster or not. It's kinda adorable really ngl

[@TommyBNSF]

@@MoCsomeone Still shouldn't be funding them.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

Funny how they are both from a certain abrahamic sect

[@RayCromwell]

Americans got $3.1T drumped on them by Trump and $2.4T dumped on them by Biden in terms of COVID relief funds. Ukraine, Bibi, illegals, and whatever other distractions people bring up are irrelevent to our ability to spend when there's a disaster. Stop trying to use people's hurricane misery to push your pet agenda. If there's no spending on Ukraine, you'd just come up with some other excuse. Then it would be welfare queens.

[@taiwanjohn]

Some of us have known about HAARP all along just because we're science geeks. Another helpful aspect of being a science geek is having a pretty good "gut feel" for the relative amounts of energy involved in a massive hurricane and an elaborate research project. The idea that HAARP could be used to create, or even to "steer" a storm like this is quite frankly RIDICULOUS.

[@austintrousdale2397]

👍 If we’re going to invoke HAARP, how about we not pick and choose which disasters that it supposedly caused? GW Bush was ofc in office when Katrina happened, and the hurricane aftermath was arguably as damaging politically to that administration as was the Iraq occupation.

[@nybe]

derp.

[@carpediem44]

We have a scientifically illiterate population. A lot of people are illiterate, period.

[@lindsaymcguire8619]

What about cloud seeding?

[@Helios--]

@@lindsaymcguire8619 Guardian 2020: *China plans rapid expansion of 'weather modification' efforts* "Ambition to cover area more than one and a half times size of India likely to concern country’s neighbours China is planning a rapid expansion of its weather modification programme to cover an area more than one and a half times the size of India, in a move likely to raise concerns among the country’s neighbours. The decision, announced by the cabinet on Wednesday night, would increase fivefold the world’s biggest cloud-seeding operation, which already employs an estimated 35,000 people."

[@Opsilverback]

*media lies about everything for years* Krystal: “I just don’t get the conspiracies about the media…”

[@lindsaymcguire8619]

It was a slap in the face to the victims to even mention the conspiracies around the storm if that’s what they are-conspiracies. It pissed me off that she and Emily focused on that angle of the story instead of the tragedy itself.

[@jonniewesterop2478]

The Democrats have stolen 3 primary elections at this point - the electorate is genuinely worried about their democracy, republic - January 6th storming the capitol was a result of this as well. I am a lifelong Democrat leaving the party with RFK Jr.

[@tk80mufa5]

Krystal is the biggest hypocrite under the sun. An accountant & economist posing as a socialist. Everything for the clicks & the money. Classic champagne socialist.

[@niloticnya]

My sister is at Western Carolina University & I’m lucky she’s safe. She told me it was apocalyptic & I want to pick her up but can’t bc of the roads

[@RayBlakey]

Dont worry americans, ukraine and israel is putting together an infrastructure bill and will send money to america 😅😅😅

[@Gettothegone]

Wait until our currency is devalued further. Weimar Germany is right around the corner

[@goldilox369]

Don't I know it! 😂 But seriously, they'll probably get a check from FEMA for $500 per family AFTER the elections. Not even $700, because Hawaii costs more to live. The East Coast can just deal. 🤬,😒

[@assertivekarma1909]

Aid to Ukraine is justifiable, Israel less so, many other foreign expenditures should be cut first & better accountability is needed everywhere.

[@kevmat8163]

@@assertivekarma1909 justify Ukraine help?! They are not a nato country not even in EU. Ukraine is absolutely useless and irrelevant country to an average American

[@richardfuller3566]

Maybe other countries should chip the fuck in instead of America having a proxy war with Russia. Only Democrats will have this pro-war attitude, and I cant believe it. ​@assertivekarma1909

[@BennyHarassi]

Emily: "Sir this is a Wendys"

[@mastercabbage]

More like used to be a Wendy’s.

[@JJones-zg7yz]

"to the ROUFE"

[@iucp101]

The media is ignoring western NC. Everything is all about Asheville, but there are many more small towns that got hit MUCH harder. Many communities are totally cut off with no way in or out, no power, water or cell service. Rescue crews cant get into all these communities. Some communities have been totally washed away and many more deaths are to come. This is way worse than what you are seeing on TV. Asheville is one of the most liberal towns in the country, so I dont think HAARP had anything to do with this. I wish the media would get boots on the ground out into the smaller mountain towns and report truthfully on this devastation.

[@IronmanV5]

You yourself said it "totally cut off with no way in or out"

[@kyleandrews9500]

'I wish the media would get boots on the ground out into the smaller mountain towns and report truthfully on this devastation." How are they supposed to do that when "Many communities are totally cut off with no way in or out," ?

[@petercollingwood522]

HAARP has nothing to do with it period. It has nothign to do with wether a liberal or consvative area gets hit.

[@carpediem44]

We are in an election cycle, and bad news drags on political campaign. JOY.

[@carpediem44]

​@@kyleandrews9500HELICOPTERS. DRONES. Quit pretending this is 1824.

[@CrypticFoxGaming]

The conspiracies make me laugh. Somehow people simultaneously believe that the government is super incompetent while also assuming these insane super villain type coordinated plans. Zero chance there’s enough competence and expertise there for this kind of conspiracy theory 😂

[@jherekhallett9742]

the only thing scarier than thinking a secret cabal control the world, is thinking that actually no one controls anything.

[@paulpeterson4216]

Absolutely. The government that they believe could not find their butt with both hands can also orchestrate a biblical flood out of imaginary global warming.

[@davidhamilton7628]

Weather modification has been in practice since Vietnam Nam era look in to it bro. Here is a place for information. Dane wighinton

[@CrypticFoxGaming]

@@davidhamilton7628 Yes the government totally has a big weather altering machine they use to generate hurricanes to cause havok in their own county...definitely legit...

[@lennyjenkins9931]

​@@davidhamilton7628 Weather Modification =/= Total weather control. Y'all would rather believe some Kookie shit than just accept that Global Warming is real.

[@JGfromSpace.]

It’s almost as if the scientists and experts were correct when they warned us of the escalating dangers of climate change.

[@b3dazzl3]

If you look at the world, and historical events through a pinhole then you might have a point 🤷‍♂️

[@amraceway]

@@b3dazzl3 A pretty big pin.

[@naijaplayer]

@@JGfromSpace. 🎯

[@MrComeaucmc]

I’m in Augusta Georgia area and we are still without power. 3 days of clearing trees and still plenty more to clear. As a Floridian I haven’t seen damage like this since Irma 8 years ago. Never imagined we could get hurricane damage this bad this far inland. Still 3-4 hour wait at most gas stations that have gas until they sold out. Luckily some stores and restaurants have gotten back to providing services for the community. Most people are still out of work and trying to recover from the disaster

[@roblarson2240]

the federal gov doesn't care about its citizens, here or abroad. They care about donors. Are any key donors in this hurricane area? i assume no.

[@assertivekarma1909]

Asheville has some wealthy people, and is a popular excursion destination...

[@ldIezz]

Lake lure has mega mansions with heli pads there are defos donors their

[@matthewrichard08]

To put in simple terms, us here in NC are getting Lahain'd.

[@esotericevan]

So true. Another “natural” disaster

[@seanwhelan6960]

@@esotericevanyes the big bad government spun up its weather machine to cause a bunch of damage to NC? Or could it be the weather pattern shifts that have been talked about for decades? The simplest answer is usually the wrong one😂

[@esotericevan]

@@seanwhelan6960 You’re right. It’s just a coincidence that it wiped out the land adjacent to the largest lithium, silica, and Ultrapure quartz mines in the eastern US

[@seanwhelan6960]

@@esotericevan oh no, a connection, get some red string for your big board. Follow the money! Real people are dying and you’re making up dumb conspiracy theories. Hurricane hit in an area that is not usually hit by hurricanes, scientists have been saying for decades this will happen, but you don’t believe them. Instead you think the gubermint has a targeted weather machine that can shoot hurricanes wherever they want. And all that to clear the way for your mining project. But it’s the same government that is too stupid to run or fix the country. Checks out!

[@SuperGreenSmartie]

⁠@@esotericevanI mean it legitimately is a coincidence. Not every single thing that happens is part of a conspiracy.

[@InterestedAmerican]

Hurricane Helene was no last minute arrival. Before it even become a hurricane East of the Yucatán Peninsula, it was forcase to be Cat4 on landfall, and the amount of rain it would drop inland (Georgia, SC, NC, Virginia, Ten, etc) was absolutely known it would happen. 4 days out there were predictioons of over 20" of rain falling exactly where it did. All day I watched live streams as it approached landfall, right up until midnight. This should have been no surprise to anyone. If anything, it was because people did not understand what 20"+ of rain meant to them and the area they lived, that caused this to be more deadly than should have been.

[@lennyjenkins9931]

Easy, it's Florida. People don't pay attention to the news and then they blame it on the news.

[@paigeh1670]

It's great that you're a weather Buff and followed along. For those of us who live in western north carolina and only watch breaking points, we didn't get notice from our officials that we were in trouble until 24 hours before.

[@InterestedAmerican]

@@paigeh1670 Then blame your local media for dropping the ball. They have no excuse for not informing you and your local government authorities to the dangerous nature of the rains that were forecast well in advance. NOAA and the National Hurricane Center forecase this DAYS prior.

[@InterestedAmerican]

@@paigeh1670 Don't you think that your local media shares some blame for the last minute warning? NOAA and the National Hurricane Center forecasted 20"+ of rain DAYS in advance. Local media has no excuse. It's their JOB to report forecasted catastrophic weather events that could endanger the public they serve. They are the ones that should, at minimum, force local government to take seriously the massive rains that NOAA and the National Hurricane Center forecasted for your area, and ensure they act upon the information to save lives. I live in the Wyoming Valley of northeast PA. We've had the kind of flooding you're now experiencing. Since then, local weather shows river height guages every time we're forcase to get excessive rains to show what height the Susquahanna River is forcast to crest, and how severe, if at all, flooding will be. I'm used to how our local media reports possibly catastrophic weather events in our area, and perhaps naively think everywhere local media does similar. I feel horrible about what happened, not only to you, but in other states/areas as well. God bless all of you as you struggle through this horrific time.

[@paigeh1670]

@InterestedAmerican I'm under 75 so I don't have cable or read newspapers. I have no idea if they were covering this or not. I think the government officials who sent out a mandatory evacuation notice at 8am on Friday morning during the worst of the storm to all of Buncombe County should have been sending emergency alerts about Helene days before so we knew to look for this information. Again, not everyone is watching the news or reading the local newspaper daily. Most people aren't. Most people have kids and multiple jobs and not enough time and energy to be the most informed person ever.

[@hudson2441]

Hmm think Congress will stop representing Israel long enough to do something?

[@lennyjenkins9931]

What can congress do?

[@kevmat8163]

AIPAC has your back.

[@PendulumCancel]

I'd try to answer your question, but we all know what youtube moderation will do.

[@commonman317]

If we all move to Israel or Ukraine, then we would finally get aid from our government, right?

[@DemantoidGreen]

Crazy that Krystal has never heard of HAARP. I mean, I DO watch a lot of conspiracy shit, but it seems even outside that circle, she’d have heard it’s name before

[@user-hx1cz8lm2s]

Pretty sure she has but her dumb brain ignores it

[@StrugglerIndeed]

Destruction on par with Katrina. Absolutely wild.

[@souljahroch2519]

I survived Katrina. What I'm seeing is worse. Total devastation of a wonderful community that I almost moved to after Katrina. Prayers to those in the Region 🙏

[@StrugglerIndeed]

@@souljahroch2519 Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles was awful too, but this is another level. Prayers outbound, indeed!

[@EnPatrolle]

Weather extremes becoming the norm... if only someone had warned us.

[@user-hx1cz8lm2s]

It was tracked for more than a week

[@SpaceshipEarth]

its being downplayed severely. I have 100s of friends there and they are saying 10k could be dead. Nearly all the roads are destroyed and the town is battered beyond belief!!!

[@lennyjenkins9931]

The NWS and the NOAA have been warning those areas for a while, why didn't they prepare?

[@FooshNick064]

Yeah, no. The death toll will likely be 150 nationwide. It's at 100 now and most have been accounted for.

[@JayPeff1]

⁠​⁠@@FooshNick064most have been accounted for ? You obviously have not experienced what WE have in Asheville. With areas still completely flooded like Swannanoa, chimney rock, lake lure, and biltmore village. Never want the number to be higher but do not downplay the situation that we have to live with

[@FooshNick064]

@JayPeff1 I live in Florida. I experience this multiple times per year. 10k dead is an absurdity. No shot.

[@JayPeff1]

@@FooshNick064 most destruction since Katrina but you see it multiple times a year? Stop trying to downplay the destruction that has hit our city and others in the region. You said most had been accounted for. It will be months before “most” is accounted for. Don’t be ignorant just because someone said an ridiculous number for the death toll

[@midnitepostman]

Just wait until Krystal learns the truth about birds

[@Bekayvd]

Underrated comment

[@Swampratatta]

Basic Information Recording Drones

[@mythicalfelix]

In South GA we got little to no warning. Kemp waited way too late declaring a state of emergency, we should have had mandatory evacuations here instead we woke up to our town being tore the fuck up. Never seen something like that in my life, the wind was literaly shaking the ground.

[@timcardona9962]

That’s terrible. It should make you think twice about who to vote for in the future

[@mikedmoon2]

CNN top story: Israel Fox News: North Carolina MSNBC: Trump being mean to Kamala. In fact North Carolina doesn't appear until I swipe down 5 times. 3 Diddy stories before NC

[@timcardona9962]

NC is the front page story on CNN’s website. What are you babbling about

[@threeofeight197]

People don’t think about it but the mountains are just as susceptible to being destroyed by hurricanes as the coasts are. Maybe not just as but a very close second. The weather systems can get “stuck” by the mountains and end up just dumping on one place for hours. Then these valleys basically become giant rivers. It’s so awful.

[@keiththoma2559]

Other issue is what is downstream of the mountains. Mountains have a lot of land. Water across a mountain will drain down to the same streams etc which will lead the amount of water to become significant.

[@josephfisher426]

​@@keiththoma2559 I don't know if they've changed the tune, but the National Weather Service's evaluation of the large river flooding on late Friday or Saturday, after the storm had pretty much dumped, was "moderate to possibly major." Floods spread out as they go downstream.

[@keiththoma2559]

@@josephfisher426 I guess my point is like this. A mountain that is 500 ft X 500 ft for example will cover a significant amount of area. All that water will quickly come down the mountain and go down shortest paths to ground etc

[@josephfisher426]

@@keiththoma2559 On the other hand that faster-moving water doesn't linger to get in the way of the water behind it. But what mountains DO do is squeeze out a lot more rain than flat land.

[@MattBuild4]

Its not really the same. Most often than not the real issue of hurricanes on the coast isnt actually the wind or the rain, but the storm surge. Youre not going to have a storm surge in the mountains. You can have torrential flooding and boxed in areas, but to say the risk is the same isnt really true because in reality the focus is on two wholly different variables.

[@1massboy]

12:25 Emily from the top rope with the elbow. 😂

[@talyahr3302]

That was funny 😂 And Krystal's reaction was so cute 😂

[@ayeewtasko2601]

Pure gold 😂

[@tsnorquist]

I feel sorry for the people impacted by this. I also feel sorry for them a year from now when the insurance companies will decide to raise their rates by 500% and or simply leave the markets.

[@pattysmith5989]

After refusing to pay their claims.

[@JimJWalker]

I was taking "Media and Politics" for my PolySci undergrad when Katrina hit. The storm dominated the entire semester's focus. The professor threw the syllabus into the garbage.

[@frumpd63]

(Don't look up)

[@kajagoogoo9613]

No. This isn't unheard if when you consider geological history, not just the last 60 years.

[@Kitajima2]

@@kajagoogoo9613In the past decade, there have been multiple 500 year and 1000 year floods. Like, the odds of those severities is literally in the name, should only happen once a millennium. Extreme weather events are happening semi-frequently now, but you can go ahead and bury your head in the sand. I'm buying Great Lakes property with freshwater access because I'm don't plan on staying where I am

[@catholicguy3605]

​@@kajagoogoo9613Ashville was flooded by a hurricane in 1919

[@ryandelatte3294]

@@kajagoogoo9613 Look at a graph of the concentration of Co2 in the atmosphere throughout the Earths history and how global temperatures correlate with that. Then take a look at the very end of the graph to today where we have emitted more Co2 in the past few decades than any naturally occurring Co2 emitting process has in thousands of years. We are just seeing the effects of the heating that was caused years ago and this is just the beginning. The climate is going to change faster than most life on Earth (maybe even most humans) can adapt to.

[@cc8751]

🥱

[@jeffreywitty3088]

In light of this tragedy, they have sent $27.5 billion additional aid to the Ukraine

[@Khyberization]

You forgot the 32b to Israel.

[@sniperjared]

@@Khyberization they always forget that

[@christianwestling2019]

The casualties are higher because more people live where the hurricanes happen. A hundered years ago people lived in the (today) rust-belt, and much less by the coast. Today more people live in the sunbelt, by the coast.

[@reiserkeiser]

Literally heard about this storm 5 days before it happened. The news was out there

[@anthonytwohill9726]

The news is the reason I heard of it. Don't know why people are claiming that the MSM hasn't been covering it.

[@theboldandthebeautiful3729]

Same, and they are reporting on the devastation as well.

[@nebula3471]

Yea the reporting on this storm was terrible because the media in general is terrible. I live in Florida and I knew about the potential of this storm 10 days before it made landfall. I have to pay attention to this because my family's lives are at stake. If you didn't know this storm was going to hit or the potential of its devastation, then your just not paying attention.

[@pattysmith5989]

But this was not predicted for Appalachia.

[@lennyjenkins9931]

​@@pattysmith5989There were warnings about it affecting the area. The total extent of the effect wasn't known.

[@timcardona9962]

This is what happens when a reality tv star convinces people that news is fake

[@sankarchaya]

Fish - .... Employee - "sir this is a Wendy's ..."

[@sniperjared]

I was without power for 30 hours, luckily no significant damage in my area.. really sad about western nc and tennessee already poor and neglected regions just got devastated, a lot of these towns will never recover

[@bbjj3805]

1:08 a tesla on fire is the least shocking part of this video

[@autecheee]

Elon can have Tesla activate emergency fire mode on the Tesla’s to provide warmth and a fire source for the Hurricane victims

[@KG9551]

😂 it wasn’t even in the flood, the driver was just listening to a report about the hurricane on the radio and it spontaneously lit up

[@stoneylonesome4062]

I live in upstate SC. I was running my 1981 military-spec Diesel Mercedes G-wagon on waste cooking oil driving on washed out roads while everyone else was waiting in line at gas stations or stuck in the mud.

[@autecheee]

@@stoneylonesome4062 Now you’ll Never part with your Diesel car and save cooking oil. All the Tesla & EV owners who can’t get power let alone try to get gas to run a inefficient generator to try to power it for a few miles of battery life. More reasons not to get a EV!

[@michaelmalangone6138]

You’d be pretty shocked if you stepped foot in that garage

[@youngandrestlessjean3634]

Eastern Europe (Poland, Austria, Romania) just had devastating floods recently where people died, and the scenes there looked just Ashville N.C. This is very sad to see. My state (NE) had 2 terrible tornadoes this past spring, and a couple of neighborhoods were completely destroyed. We hadn't had a tornado cause this much damage in my city since 1975.

[@davidanderson-22]

Cover the Impact Plastics story! Mostly immigrant workers told to stay at work while management left them.

[@kkartha]

Absence of Evidence is always NOT Evidence for Absence.. Talking heads on media always toe the Establishment lines ..

[@pwetty4r4]

Meanwhile, Tennessee's national guard is being deployed to Kuwait 😃

[@anthonytwohill9726]

Cool. Somebody's gotta watch over those oil fields while the federal enlisted get sent off to the Mediterranean Sea.

[@williamwonka020]

My area was affected, the picture you saw where the interstate has crumbled & the bridges that collapsed. these towns were already struggling and now they are picking up pieces of their life. This has been horrible, I just hope we can get the help that we need into these areas. It's going to take months to fix, if not longer, how will the economies of these small towns be affected? I hope aid is on it's way, but I believe more in the community coming together to help more than our government.

[@MuahMan]

More and more people are moving to FL, SC, and NC every year, it's just going to get worse as the population density goes higher.

[@Voxabonable]

Disasters make a lot of people happy, they profit from the needy. Maui's recovery was estimated to be $5.5B by university research, is now past $12B spent for Lahaina alone, with 40 new houses built out of the 2200 destroyed. Baltimore key bridge was initially estimated by engineers to cost $400 million to replace. Politicians, consultants and builders quickly jumped in, citing the twice as long NYC Cuomo Bridge's $4B budget, and concluded $2B is needed, by May $1.7B was approved. The land of plenty, with no way out.

[@matbrown687]

Oh yes the Federal government targeted the conservative strongholds of Atlanta, Asheville, Boone, and Chimney Rock.

[@Old_Man_Dan]

Hey, you guys remember the fires in Hawaii?

[@jos76e831]

They want the lithium and the chip making materials that are on the landscape look at the permits that where being held back !! Bb

[@yesfredfredburger8008]

I don’t understand what’s going on, therefore God has brought judgement upon ye

[@luodeligesi7238]

Mother Nature is conspiring with the Democrats!!

[@produceman13]

Thoughts and prayers.

[@Luna_Boy]

@@produceman13the most

[@mattsreptileroom]

That's the God of the old testament for you ​@@dbptwg

[@yesfredfredburger8008]

@@dbptwg anywhere you want. Fair warning though, you guys might not get along. He’s all about understanding things as they are in the real world instead of hoping for things to fix themselves for you

[@SirCramptonian]

I love Emily bringing up HAARP and Krystal with utter contempt for having to discuss it. 😂😂😂

[@ChrisCommenting]

I wonder if Krystal knows about cloud seeding, or how Dubai flooded.

[@carpediem44]

Documentation? Evidence? Data? Links? I have never heard of cloud seeding producing 20 inches of rain.

[@Squince01]

​@@carpediem44that's because they F'd up, it wasn't supposed to be that much.

[@hark4e78]

Aged infrastructure is part of the problem.

[@macmcelveen1241]

Maui, East Palestine, and fema was huge help...

[@Cloudchopper-x1r]

Maui, East Palestine were man made disasters on purpose. This one can't be totally man made unless we do not yet know what technology government has to destroy some of us.

[@JoeBarrow021104]

This is why I like BP so much, give a true take on our current government and how they been WORTHLESS on supporting American towns that were affected by this hurricane.

[@ELNACHO78]

Authorities had told the people who chose not to leave before the Hurricane to write their information on their arms with permanent markers.

[@anthonytwohill9726]

That's a good idea.

[@paigeh1670]

That was in Florida. Here in asheville, we got nothing at all from our officials until it had already started raining to prepare for a water outage. No recommendation to evacuate. No recommendation to be identifiable in case of death.

[@anthonytwohill9726]

@@paigeh1670 Question: Did any cities in your state get ample warning? Was it a statewide issue or more a problem with your specific county/city government? I ask because I knew a couple days in advance that it was going to be bad (not quite this bad though), and I live in the Midwest. I've seen another commenter saying that they had cancelled a trip to Asheville a day before (cancelled hotel, etc) because he knew it would be bad.

[@paigeh1670]

@anthonytwohill9726 honestly I can't know because the other towns have even worse communications. I haven't heard from anyone who's out of town and contacted me that their officials gave more warning.

[@anthonytwohill9726]

@@paigeh1670 Hmm. I appreciate you getting back to me.

[@spectre244mc]

It actually rained here for like 48 hours straight BEFORE the hurricane hit us. I'm in south Asheville and we just got power on last night. We had no power no running water no cell service since the storm hit. My apartment community was getting pool water to flush toilets and burning sticks from the fallen trees to boil water and cook food. Feels like water has finally gotten through and power is coming back finally. Happy to be safe, we were not in one of the flooded areas.

[@zcorpalpha2462]

Lucky 🍀 Hurricane 🌀 Micheal in Georgia, we don’t have power for 3 weeks Cat 5

[@spectre244mc]

@@zcorpalpha2462 well we were in an area that was very lucky. Other areas had water to the roof of 2 story buildings. So they will probably never have power again since the building is unrecognizable. I'm very lucky.

[@jenilynneful]

Emily secretly believing in the conspiracy she brings up…

[@thescoobymike]

Nah fr tho 😂 she gon be on Megyn Kelly soon talkin all about it haha

[@Luwep]

I strongly believe she's low key auditioning for fox News😂😂😂

[@Cloudchopper-x1r]

Many conspiracy theories of the past have become reality. Just wait a while.

[@Gettothegone]

@@Luwepyea she along with Krystal manufactures consent

[@hannahbotanica3311]

Now that I just got internet ,I am blown away by the devastation here! I lived in Asheville for over 20 years & in these mountains my whole life. I have close friends I still can't contact. People's homes and businesses washed away, we are out of gas, grocery stores are empty, roads destroyed. Where is Biden? Still on vacation?

[@bobweaver9809]

FEMA and potus are almost there, right? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@chaws314]

FEMA was gutted by our previous president... What happened to wanting small government? Some people only want big government when they need it, but small government for everyone else but that isn't how government works... A lot of this flooding is from aging dams not being able to withstand the massive amounts of water being dumped into the region. The infrastructure bill was supposed to help fix these problems but one political party consistently voted against it until it was dumbed down to a mediocre bill at best. If you want to make this political we can, but lets be clear, one political party is trying to help the people and one is only trying to help the corporations and billionaires.

[@zerocool5395]

"But, but, but Trump!!!"

[@ev17dan]

​@zerocool5395 I mean when you deregulate shit yes

[@zerocool5395]

@@ev17dan It's definitely Trump's fault Hawaiians affected by the fires got $600 while Ukraine and Israel get billions. So glad our Black queen will be elected and everything wrong with this country will be fixed.

[@tanakaba]

​@@chaws314 Republicans controlled the Senate at that time, so Trump made his changes easily. Democrats also controlled the Senate during Biden and Harris's first two years, if they felt like changing it back. Instead, they appear to believe Trump is right.

[@capricornicopia4171]

Most all of the roads have been walked away, blocked, or destroyed. So many people are cut off with no way out. People are hiking miles to get supplies to people and supplies are having to be air dropped in. The media isn’t even doing justice to the catastrophic damage. Our NC mountains have been destroyed. Homes destroyed, businesses destroyed, roads destroyed. Lives lost and so many more still missing. Please help however you can.

[@kajagoogoo9613]

You're wrong, Krystal. More people are affected and damage costs add up because there are more people living in those areas than before, not because of your frequency and intensity argument. And, are you adjusting the estimated dollars for inflation since that is the metric you are using? Doubt it

[@Bekayvd]

The Cope is strong with this one

[@IndependenceCityMotoring]

BINGO. Krystal doesn't understand technical analysis.

[@kajagoogoo9613]

@@IndependenceCityMotoring It doesn't fit her dem infused brain narratives

[@evolutionofmaggie]

I live in the Southeast, so thank you for covering this. It is endemic of the larger problem of climate crisis and I hope we rebuild in a way that prepares us better for the next storm.

[@AcmePotatoPackingPocatello]

Pepple love the area they live in ' especially country folk ' . My favorite river has been flooding wildly since the 2000s began. It no longer resembles anything like what it was in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s....

[@Jasper118]

I’m part of a federal deployment team made exactly for these situations and I’m on call this month and I haven’t heard a peep about anything as far as deployment. Looks like it’s going to be another abomination of management.

[@Christian-ip3vz]

*Hurricane happens* Brainrotted people: What if... ANCIENT ALIENS!

[@TastyJester]

My basement has gotten 5 feet of water a handfull of times during weaker hurricanes when the make their way up to Pennsylvania and drop rain for days and my sump pump dies, and i live on a mountain without any water for many miles. Hard rain for many days can do awful things to the land. Luckily my basement is full stone and concrete and nothing is down there.

[@JGfromSpace.]

I can’t believe Emily even gave the HAARP conspiracy the time of day. Well, actually I can believe it.

[@jovoorheescollinsmphbsnbch6245]

I live in Knoxville. Towns north and southeast are destroyed. HUNDREDS of people are still missing.

[@jamesLescobar]

I'm devastated that Krystal doesn't know about haarp... Wait till she finds out about the rest of the stuff

[@bligatron420]

Trip out, I graduated high school in 2006 and I remember my sophomore year teacher explaining to us that HAARP was a government agency that could manipulate the weather. Being in high school at the time I think I just chalked it up to “that’s wild.”

[@ceeIoc]

Let’s see if Dems treat the hurricane survivors as well as they do illegal immigrants.

[@watermage25]

You want them to treat the hurricane survivors to low income poverty housing and hotels?

[@leevy6753]

They won't care. They only operate on bribing minorities and white guilt.

[@ceeIoc]

@@watermage25yes and free food

[@leevy6753]

@@ceeIoc Could you imagine what they will do if they find out an actual immigrant was affected in this storm? They might just give them a house someone already lives in and make that person continue to pay the mortgage. Haha

[@McP1mpin]

I've seen more news stories about Springfield, Ohio than this hurricane so far.

[@Hammurabi84]

I’m sick of watching my tax money go to fund wars while poor to middle class families at home are not getting the protection or help THEY DESERVE!

[@PepeToTheMooon]

It’s better to spend the segment in finding out ways the audience can donate to the victims, and not concentrate on the few looney toons who believe everything they see online.

[@leevy6753]

I know. I was once told "good people on both sides" and "Russi Collusion" was 100% factual and a certain laptop was indeed more Russi disinformation. As long as the media tells me what to think, I will absolutely only believe them. They are always truthful and factual about everything.

[@leevy6753]

@dbptwg Have you ever seen a machine in a field make clouds in the sky? I have. I bet you don't believe that's real either. Point is, we have no idea what's possible. We are also lied to constantly by our government and media. Not sure what's real but I can entertain a thouht without having to believe it's true m

[@anthonytwohill9726]

I've already donated my thoughts and prayers to those Bible thumpers. What else do you want from me?

[@petercollingwood522]

Unfortunately, theres a lot more than a "few" loonytunes, and it's significant because these morons vote, and that impacts the country as a whole. Including this, and future disasters.

[@KimJongWilll]

Conspiracy theorists have a good track record

[@user-hx1cz8lm2s]

Except this time it was tracked for more than a week and if you know anything about hurricanes you should know that once it enters the Gulf it's basically guaranteed to become a hurricane

[@dev_ilmoon]

The audacity to think humans can control the weather 😂

[@Bekayvd]

Only the climate

[@crazyratlady3438]

Control, no but we can absolutely manipulate it. Please do a little research, the info is readily available. We've been modifying weather for quite some time now.

[@dev_ilmoon]

@@crazyratlady3438 yes but we can’t control hurricanes, monsoons, or even common storms. You can influence climate but controlling storm. Do you know what they would do with such awesome power?

[@douglasmcintosh1375]

Where is Biden. Where is Harris?😢😢

[@thescoobymike]

If only there was an educated group of people who had predicted this kind of thing starting to happen more regularly a couple decades ago

[@Khyberization]

I'm told there was but you couldn't trust them because education is evil.

[@ekrenz5268]

There needs to be a policy that states that in order to receive disaster relief, you must acknowledge that climate change is real.

[@letsbuildasnowman7058]

Conspiracy theories are more popular than ever because so many have been coming true.

[@DeathsInverse]

Which ones

[@will9134]

@@DeathsInverse”Covid came from a lab” “Covid Vaccines are safe and effective” “I am the science”

[@pattysmith5989]

911 cover up. COVID Lab leak theory. Geoengineering. All backed up by science.

[@letsbuildasnowman7058]

​@@DeathsInverse The CIA used Weather Modification dating back to Vietnam, The CIA Mind Control Operation (MKUltra), ect ect.

[@letsbuildasnowman7058]

@@DeathsInverse Plenty modern ones too. Hunter Biden Laptop, Russiagate ect.

[@thedripdrop9826]

Please do a story on the helicopter pilot who was threatened with arrest for rescuing people. That chief needs to be held accountable.

[@FreedomAintFree-ol6fy]

They are ignoring the elephant in the room. Is it possible to create a hurricane? How would we know man made weather events vs natural ones. If there is no ability to delineate, that is inherently problematic.

[@carpediem44]

Go back to your first question. "Is it possible to create a hurricane?" No, it is not possible to create a hurricane. Go to the NASA and NOAA websites with your question. An actual scientist will answer.