The death toll from Hurricane Helene has risen to 200 as rescuers continue to search for survivors from the storm that tore across the US south-east.
More than half of the deaths were in North Carolina, where entire communities were uprooted and devastated by the deadliest mainland storm since Katrina in 2005.
Hundreds of people are still missing and nearly a million homes are without power nearly a week after Helene made landfall.
There’s been a 40% chance of another storm right in the gulf for the last week. It’s possible that the same devastated area gets hit again before they’ve even had a chance to figure out what happened last week.
Here’s the thing: I think the Republicans are going to try to human sacrifice in Florida for votes.
They’re already spinning the FEMA funding issue as being because FEMA “spent all their money on immigrants,” and another devastating hurricane where FEMA can’t help as effectively would allow them to run with the idea they’re already currently (ineffectively) trying to push, which is that FEMA isn’t helping.
They’re already saying they won’t vote for additional FEMA funding due to the bullshit “immigrants” thing. So they’re going to try to flat-foot FEMA, hope for a horrifying national disaster, blame FEMA for letting people die while spending money on immigrants, and then attempt to pin it on (Biden) Harris.
They’re trying to position themselves so they can let people die in order to win an election. And it’s very possible it will work.
Well they sacrificed 4,000 of my friends for votes so that tracks.
I’m fully confident that Republicans in Florida would support this idea. I think they’d literally be willing to die to make Biden look bad. Fucked up world.
Most of these places are so devastated that there is no infrastructure left to allow voting to happen with. Many of the hit places are republican strongholds. Withholding funding will only hurt Republicans.
So let them try this, it’s their own asses on the line
Asheville is the hardest hit area from what I understand and it’s extremely blue.
The worst of Helene hardly scratched Florida compared to what happened in Western North Carolina. Cities and towns entirely wiped out.