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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan, with iconic City Hall in the distance, on left, in Kungsholmen. In my previous life, I was definitely born there.
A reminder of why I and my savvy, sensible friends -like @UdenCatherine - push back vs. the serial nonsensical public policy + misanthropy fm #HollywoodFL City Hall, both the City Comm. as well as its often imperious, feckless, highly-paid, thin-skinned bureaucrats. THIS! ☀️🌴🏖️😎. Hollywood Beach, March 2025
President Trump REALLY in his element as Commiserator-in-Chief, hearing western North Carolina hurricane/storm survivors tell their tales of struggles, resilience and FEMA apathy.
When Trump said much the same re FEMA's feeble performance in Sept., multiple reporters at PBS' "News Hour" show said that his words were "unfounded"🤨.
Especially the always-loathsome Laura Barrón-López!
This video from earlier today puts the lie to that unfounded criticism!
Seeing is believing.
President Trump Delivers Remarks in Asheville, North Carolina
After hearing this from a mentally-exhausted and frustrated hurricane survivor in western NC today, do you think President Trump wants to hear from whiny, self-serving, and self-pitying shirker of responsibility #GavinNewsom, who was part of the problem and not part of the solution?
No.
My comments below are particularly relative to the comments that come at about the 34;39 moment in the video above.
A Fairview, NC area woman who lives in Bat Cave Lake Lure area details her experience riding the hurricane night out alone w/o her husband, who was in town looking after a 98-y.o. woman who lived by herself. Her area was hit really hard. The next morning she goes out to check the roads and the bridge into town -there is NO bridge.
Suddenly - isolated like on an island. Later, the local FD arrives to tell them they have to evacuate because of a high possibility of a mountain landslide.
A few minutes later, her 21 yo son Nathan arrives, after hiking 5 miles, to tell her to grab her bag of stuff because they have to go - NOW!!!
On her way out, hiking back towards her son's car 5 miles away, they run across one of her neighbors, who is battered, black-and-blue, with dirt covering the unbruised areas. And the neighbor is wearing no clothes
because she'd been carried away by the power of the water toward parts unknown... and the power of that water had literally torn off her clothes.
Eventually they came to an area of Craigtown, where members of various families were doing a search by themselves for some missing family members, knowing that there were already reports of dead bodies in the area.
Her son turned to her and said, "Mom, you're going to see things that you DON'T want to see."
(Apparently, 11 people died from one family they encountered. See the heartbreaking November 13th, 2024 Asheville Citizen Times newspaper story at bottom)
Eventually, she was reunited with her husband, and they lived in a part of a nearby church that was not completely destroyed.
But they had no electricity for two months.
And they have "been fighting with FEMA since Day One."
The road and bridge that had existed in their 32-home community is GONE, and they have to get around by driving through what used to be each other's front and back yards.
(The area no doubt looks like a giant endless bog or mosh pit by now.)
She told the President that she had told the local EMS that because of the lack of roads, in case of a future fire or other emergency, she and her neighbors know that the EMS personnel will be UNABLE to get their larger vehicles and apparatuses into the area where they're needed.
She keeps calling FEMA and reminding them that the hurricane hit their area on September 27th. "For us, it's STILL Sep. 27th... we haven't had any help."
And then it only gets WORSE when she tells the President what FEMA is demanding of the community...
'It's changed forever': Tropical Storm Helene destroys Craigtown, kills 11 in same family Evan Gerike, Asheville Citizen Times
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