Elon Musk says FEMA blocking, confiscating aid then claim it is their aid

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My wife told me she was talking to someone in the impacted area last night. She was told they were stopping entire truckloads of supplies from delivering any help. From what she was told, the people who are hit the worst can't get what they need; much of it is just sitting in trucks, unable to do anything.

This is just like what we were hearing about how it went after Katrina. FEMA is just as messed up as it's always been.

It is worse than Katrina the geography makes it impossible to get to people, in Katrina they had boats helicopters, and high-water vehicles that could help with access. Plus lots of people could get to aid centers or evacuate this did not happen at all in WNC. 

The Area affected is enormous, hearing stories of 600 plus missing and more trapped in the mountains, valleys, and hollers of Western NC. and that's just western NC, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina all had deaths and damaging storms. 

Both were almost worst-case scenarios for the regions but Helene's path hit more people and seems to have affected a larger area.

 

CRS estimates that 700,000 or more people may have been acutely impacted by Hurricane Katrina, as a result of residing in areas that flooded or sustained significant structural damage. This estimate is based on geographical analysis of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood and damage assessments and year 2000 Census data. The estimates in this report are subject to the methods and assumptions used. Other agencies and organizations are conducting assessments using alternative and complementary methodologies; estimates may differ depending upon the specific methodologies used. In the case of this analysis, the estimates reflect the numbers and characteristics of people, families, and households in 2000, who lived in areas that suffered damage or flooding from the hurricane in 2005.

 

The population of the 23 most commonly associated counties for the region, as measured by the 2020 U.S.
Census, is 1,149,405.[sup][1][/sup] [sup][2][/sup] The region accounts for approximately 11% of North Carolina's total population.