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.
It’s absolutely wild that the brunt of the impact was clear on the opposite end of the state from the coast.
How many more are predicted this season? I thought I read they feel it’s probable at least another hurricane will hit the US this season. Isn’t that why FEMA is freaking out because they don’t have the money/resources to handle another?
It would be great if more people could look at this as “there but for the grace of God go I” and less as an opportunity to take a fat fucking dump on the unburied corpses of people they know nothing about.
I hope to shit people aren’t dunking on the victims - it fucking sucks.
Most people with an axe to grind on this story that I’ve seen are pissed off about constant climate change denial from GOP politicians and how much worse it’s making this situation… or about fucking clowns like Matt Gaetz who voted against continued FEMA funding less than 48 hours before landfall.
I’m quite sad people lost their lives due to a storm that our shitty fucking politics absolutely made more deadly than it had to be - its the same with antivax shit… those fucking clowns in the GOP directly killed hundreds of thousands by making masks and vaccines political.
Literally had someone tell me they loved (exact words) seeing towns in Tennessee flooded out response to my recent microblog memes post 🙃 I also can’t tell you how many snide ass Dems I see saying that they brought it on themselves by living in a red state, like there aren’t people voting Dem there anyway, or like voting Dem is a magic ward to stop climate disaster from affecting you.
Well that person is a fucking asshole. I’m glad they’re an asshole voting for Harris but they’re still an asshole. I’m sorry you ran into them. I’ve got liberal family in deep red states and nobody is more fucking pissed off than them.
It’s more, “they know not what they do.”
Many are too shortsighted to grasp that their own beliefs fuel their own pain.
Still, I don’t blame the grifted as much as I do the grifters.
