Devastated

North Carolina has been badly ravaged by Hurricane Helene. The extent of the damage in the western Mountains will take weeks to access, but the videos I’ve seen already are devastating. It wasn’t just the Mountains, but Rocky Mount in the eastern part of the state had an EF 3-4 tornado that took out a shopping center. This after they had a huge tornado last year take down a warehouse. Thankfully in Durham we just got more rain to add to the already record breaking rain we have had in July, August and now September.

For those climate deniers it’s time to wake up and smell the storm. Man has had an affect on the climate. Project 2025 wants to do away with NOAA, the people who tell us about forming hurricanes and the paths they may take so people can get out of the way.

If you own vacation property on the coast of North Carolina you should be especially interested in voting for candidates who don’t deny what is happening. Trump made the flippant remark that they will just be more beach front property as the sea levels rise.

The man truly does not understand if the water gets higher we have less beach front because the circumference gets smaller. On the outer banks ten houses have fallen into the ocean in Rodanthe. I bet those people who lost their houses believe in climate change, but then again the fact that they had these houses might mean they didn’t believe things were changing.

Thoughts and prayers are not going to fix the roads and bridges washed out in Western North Carolina. People who had their houses wash away are going to need help. Those emergency services come from the federal and State government. If you let the project 2025 people come into office there will not be a federal government agency to help in these times of disaster.

This is a wake up call to believe scientists and do what we can to build back in safer ways, in safer places and do what we can to slow climate change. Oh yeah, some of those people in mobile homes, which easily float down flooding rivers are the same people who did not believe doctors and scientists about vaccines and had relatives die unnecessarily from Covid because they thought the government was out to get them by requiring vaccines.

The government is not out to get you. The government is out to help you If you chose the right government. Those of you who listen to the crazies who want to sell you bomb shelters are doing it just to sell you stuff. Those bomb shelters got flooded in the hurricane and all that survival food you bought is ruined. To survive you need to not elect crazy leaders.