WEBVTT 00:02.000 --> 00:05.200 You can make your family's life much brighter. 00:05.640 --> 00:08.140 You will find your work much wider. 00:08.500 --> 00:13.800 It's as easy as can be to live better electrically. 00:41.970 --> 00:44.810 Buckthrill Kill, a retired service member from Fayetteville, 00:44.930 --> 00:46.910 has been in Creston for more than a week, 00:47.370 --> 00:48.470 helping clean up efforts. 00:48.970 --> 00:52.170 Debris, trees, everything, and it's under the water. 00:52.930 --> 00:55.650 Any little single piece of rebar sticking up 00:55.650 --> 00:57.870 will catch any and everything that comes by. 00:57.870 --> 01:02.050 He and other volunteers in canoes, excavators, and waiters 01:02.050 --> 01:04.790 have been pulling out items blocking waterways. 01:05.290 --> 01:07.970 Those things are redirecting water in new directions. 01:08.590 --> 01:12.050 The springtime when it thaws, all of this flooding 01:12.050 --> 01:13.630 is going to happen all over again. 01:13.810 --> 01:14.790 The locals know it. 01:15.210 --> 01:16.810 The third part of this report is 01:16.810 --> 01:19.290 going to be a little different as it concerns 01:19.290 --> 01:22.210 something that goes far beyond a hurricane, 01:22.490 --> 01:24.210 flooding the mountains of Western North Carolina 01:24.210 --> 01:25.110 and Eastern Tennessee. 01:26.210 --> 01:28.550 But I just wanted to say up front 01:28.550 --> 01:30.690 that it's already starting to dip 01:30.690 --> 01:32.150 below freezing temperatures there, 01:32.270 --> 01:35.050 and there are people who are sleeping outside 01:35.050 --> 01:37.370 of their destroyed homes and tents right now. 01:37.830 --> 01:40.230 We have been getting messages from people 01:40.230 --> 01:44.590 who are extremely concerned about the toxicity 01:44.590 --> 01:48.230 of the water and mud that has now moved 01:48.230 --> 01:51.410 through Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. 01:51.770 --> 01:54.310 But they don't have water to do the cleanup process with. 01:54.310 --> 01:56.450 So they're moving mud by hand. 01:56.690 --> 01:57.510 They're picking up equipment. 01:58.090 --> 02:00.130 They've been warned that some of what's inside 02:00.130 --> 02:01.910 may in fact even be toxic. 02:02.210 --> 02:03.530 So they're doing the best they have 02:03.530 --> 02:04.770 with some of the supplies they have. 02:05.050 --> 02:06.970 But many of the people behind me here, 02:07.050 --> 02:08.930 these are not experts in this kind of cleanup. 02:09.130 --> 02:11.370 They are the artists, the business owners themselves 02:11.370 --> 02:12.970 doing the best with what they have. 02:13.250 --> 02:15.470 He says a horse from a farm next to this bridge 02:15.470 --> 02:17.990 has died from drinking this contaminated water 02:18.450 --> 02:20.890 and eating hay bales that were sitting in the flood. 02:21.250 --> 02:23.810 There's cattle lifestyles up here. 02:23.810 --> 02:25.950 People raising beef, horses. 02:26.910 --> 02:28.350 Every bit of hay you'll drive down the road 02:28.350 --> 02:30.830 to see round bales of hay go, they're good to go. 02:31.350 --> 02:31.970 No, it's no good. 02:32.690 --> 02:33.510 It can't be used. 02:33.770 --> 02:36.610 Even Madison County Chamber of Commerce 02:36.610 --> 02:39.570 has now put up a warning on their official website 02:39.570 --> 02:41.810 that the mud in Marshall, North Carolina, 02:41.810 --> 02:44.410 just for one example, is absolutely toxic, 02:45.050 --> 02:48.050 that they have hazardous material protocols now in effect. 02:48.510 --> 02:50.210 Downtown Marshall, North Carolina 02:50.210 --> 02:52.350 was swallowed by catastrophic flooding. 02:52.350 --> 02:56.090 Now what remains is covered in a thick coat of mud and debris 02:56.090 --> 02:57.310 that's considered hazardous. 02:57.730 --> 03:00.390 Some of the volunteers that are starting to come in here 03:00.390 --> 03:03.570 are having to wear hazmat suits because all of the mud 03:03.570 --> 03:05.970 and all the debris is now considered to be hazardous. 03:06.610 --> 03:09.750 And that everyone should be using caution anywhere 03:09.750 --> 03:11.510 where there is mud or water. 03:11.850 --> 03:14.690 It says an abundance of solvents or caustic chemicals 03:14.690 --> 03:16.630 is eating people's clothing 03:17.230 --> 03:19.590 and that people are getting chemical burns 03:19.590 --> 03:21.850 from coming into contact with this mud. 03:22.350 --> 03:25.150 And that it's contaminated with household chemicals, 03:25.510 --> 03:28.310 fuel oils, gas, animal and human waste, trash. 03:29.050 --> 03:31.010 They're saying there's syringes in there, 03:31.230 --> 03:35.670 garden chemicals, all kinds of stuff is now in this mud. 03:35.850 --> 03:39.110 And they're saying PPE is now mandated for working with it, 03:39.510 --> 03:40.830 including respirators. 03:41.190 --> 03:42.790 Don't go in the mud, use caution 03:42.790 --> 03:46.230 and avoid floodwater and mud unless absolutely vital. 03:46.710 --> 03:51.050 So there's a secondary issue that is now developing here 03:51.050 --> 03:54.410 and it's also making people ill. 03:54.690 --> 03:57.030 I have people writing me who know people 03:57.030 --> 03:59.250 that are working in Lake Lure that are getting sick. 03:59.690 --> 04:02.670 There are messages being posted on Facebook groups 04:02.670 --> 04:07.350 about people coming down with respiratory illnesses 04:07.350 --> 04:11.270 and pneumonia-like illnesses that are not pneumonia 04:11.630 --> 04:12.870 and they're having lung pain. 04:13.630 --> 04:16.650 I just, I don't think people realize how toxic, 04:16.650 --> 04:20.850 how absolutely toxified this area is. 04:21.010 --> 04:23.830 And you can see how deep it is to the altar. 04:24.430 --> 04:27.550 For 24 hours, four to five feet of water flow 04:27.550 --> 04:29.250 through the church before receding. 04:29.730 --> 04:32.250 I'm sick, but I'm not. 04:32.750 --> 04:34.530 I mean, I have some allergies going on 04:34.530 --> 04:36.270 and I have some internal stuff. 04:36.610 --> 04:38.230 Like I felt like I had food poisoning, 04:38.930 --> 04:40.730 but it's been long enough 04:40.730 --> 04:42.330 that if I had food poisoning, it'd be passed 04:42.330 --> 04:44.230 and my husband's the same way and I'm convinced 04:44.230 --> 04:47.710 we got bacteria or something from somewhere. 04:47.910 --> 04:49.610 I've been sick since it started. 04:50.110 --> 04:54.010 Like with an infection, lymph nodes and stuff, 04:54.110 --> 04:54.930 it wouldn't go away. 04:55.070 --> 04:56.590 I mean, but like you drive down the road, 04:56.730 --> 04:59.250 it's like, just want to know in old four. 04:59.550 --> 05:00.350 I mean, it's a dust bowl. 05:00.810 --> 05:02.350 It's a dust bowl and they think, 05:02.810 --> 05:04.990 how many of those homes have asbestos in them? 05:05.110 --> 05:05.370 Yeah. 05:05.630 --> 05:06.410 The insulation. 05:07.410 --> 05:10.230 There's potentially a huge environmental disaster 05:10.230 --> 05:12.610 happening in Ashefield, North Carolina 05:12.610 --> 05:14.790 and everyone downriver. 05:15.070 --> 05:19.730 This is reportedly the IPEX plastic PVC factory. 05:20.270 --> 05:21.930 Everything looks to be destroyed 05:21.930 --> 05:26.150 and chemicals have been leaked into the French Broad River. 05:26.510 --> 05:29.250 It's probably the PVC, the powder form. 05:39.500 --> 05:43.920 This is the only, the only disaster I've ever worked 05:43.920 --> 05:45.680 and I've been doing this since Hurricane Katrina. 05:46.140 --> 05:47.660 It's the only one I've ever worked 05:47.660 --> 05:50.480 that the federal government is actively working 05:50.480 --> 05:51.580 against recovery. 05:52.140 --> 05:54.020 This one is completely different. 05:54.320 --> 05:56.980 They're actively working against the recovery process 05:56.980 --> 05:59.580 which tells me they've got something to hide. 05:59.960 --> 06:01.800 And Bear from the internet, 06:01.980 --> 06:04.080 he's from Grindstone Ministries. 06:04.420 --> 06:07.960 They were one of the links I put for people to donate 06:07.960 --> 06:10.960 in the pinned comment under this series of videos. 06:11.560 --> 06:13.460 He did an interview with Billy Bond 06:13.460 --> 06:15.860 who's a permaculture guy just a couple of days ago. 06:16.120 --> 06:17.620 And I think everybody just needs to hear 06:17.620 --> 06:19.960 what this man is saying about what is going on 06:19.960 --> 06:22.100 with this mud in this area. 06:22.420 --> 06:24.720 And I believe that they do have something to hide 06:24.720 --> 06:27.160 because we're already getting reports, 06:27.380 --> 06:30.420 firsthand reports of cadaver dogs that are dying, 06:31.020 --> 06:32.460 that we're walking through these areas, 06:32.680 --> 06:34.600 walking especially in your neck of the woods, 06:35.160 --> 06:37.340 I'm walking through the silt, walking through the muck, 06:37.360 --> 06:39.200 even going through de-con afterwards, 06:39.400 --> 06:41.500 being decontaminated, you know, 06:41.720 --> 06:44.480 I've got reports, one guy had 10 dogs there 06:45.300 --> 06:47.580 and four of his dogs are already dead 06:47.580 --> 06:48.800 and the other six are dying. 06:49.040 --> 06:50.700 Got another woman firsthand account 06:50.700 --> 06:52.080 that was rescuing horses, 06:52.720 --> 06:55.920 was leading horses through the muck and the mud in the river. 06:57.200 --> 07:00.420 And the horses are so incredibly sick 07:00.420 --> 07:02.620 that they started doing blood tests on the horses. 07:03.080 --> 07:04.660 And the tests that have been coming back 07:04.660 --> 07:07.340 are in their words, literally off the charts. 07:07.560 --> 07:09.280 They've never seen anything like this before. 07:09.800 --> 07:12.260 Citizens, the last report I got in your area 07:12.260 --> 07:17.560 it was 50 to 60 people in Western North Carolina 07:17.840 --> 07:20.080 that are already inexplicably sick. 07:20.540 --> 07:22.500 And by inexplicably, I mean, 07:22.720 --> 07:24.580 they don't know what's wrong with them. 07:24.960 --> 07:28.180 And the reason for that is all kinds of shit 07:28.180 --> 07:29.880 has washed into that river, 07:30.200 --> 07:33.860 literal human feces from septic tanks that were ruptured, 07:34.620 --> 07:38.340 wastewater treatment plants, thousands of cadavers, 07:38.460 --> 07:40.840 even though the official reporting is that, 07:40.840 --> 07:42.440 no, it's only 213 dead. 07:42.800 --> 07:44.760 Well, that conflicts with one corner 07:44.760 --> 07:47.680 that I personally spoke with that had 1200 people 07:47.680 --> 07:48.740 in reefer trailers. 07:48.740 --> 07:50.120 Then you've got dead animals, 07:50.660 --> 07:53.860 NFS, Nuclear Fuel Services that lost, 07:54.280 --> 07:57.560 well, the official reporting is they lost training barrels. 07:58.100 --> 08:01.480 Well, we spoke to the former training manager at NFS 08:01.480 --> 08:03.440 who said, nope, those aren't training barrels, 08:03.580 --> 08:04.600 those are live barrels. 08:05.380 --> 08:07.120 And officially the number was, 08:07.240 --> 08:08.480 well, it's just one live barrel. 08:08.820 --> 08:10.140 And it was five live barrels. 08:10.140 --> 08:14.260 And it was a semi load, 250, 55 gallon drums. 08:14.500 --> 08:17.860 And we know because the semi was found and documented 08:18.390 --> 08:19.600 under 10 foot of mud. 08:19.920 --> 08:22.300 So you've got nuclear fuel or waste fuels. 08:22.520 --> 08:25.460 You also have the facility at NFS. 08:25.540 --> 08:27.480 They said they lost a pole barn in the flooding. 08:27.900 --> 08:30.300 They didn't, they lost a 10,000 square foot 08:30.300 --> 08:34.560 decontamination unit and all the decontaminated parts 08:34.560 --> 08:36.740 and all the decontamination equipment 08:37.410 --> 08:38.340 washed into the river. 08:38.340 --> 08:39.960 Then you've got a PVC plant. 08:40.220 --> 08:41.780 You've got multiple concrete plants, 08:42.060 --> 08:43.640 all of which washed into the river. 08:43.940 --> 08:46.940 There are hundreds of homes that should be condemned. 08:47.520 --> 08:50.620 And I'm not for the government condemning people's homes. 08:50.960 --> 08:53.800 These people do not need to be mucking out their homes. 08:54.280 --> 08:56.020 They don't need to be pulling out the insulation 08:56.020 --> 08:57.760 in the drywall down to bare studs 08:57.760 --> 08:59.280 and airing it out and starting over again 08:59.280 --> 09:01.200 because the silt is deadly. 09:01.900 --> 09:03.380 The silt will kill you. 09:04.080 --> 09:06.840 And FEMA has been slow rolling this 09:06.840 --> 09:10.140 in conjunction with local and state emergency management 09:10.140 --> 09:11.800 has been slow rolling the announcement 09:11.800 --> 09:14.100 that, hey, the silt will kill you 09:14.100 --> 09:15.680 because they want to cover up 09:15.680 --> 09:18.920 what will likely be a massive conglomeration 09:19.640 --> 09:22.820 of giant lawsuits. 09:23.440 --> 09:25.000 So I need to interject here 09:25.000 --> 09:29.180 because I just think some of the stories 09:29.180 --> 09:30.780 that are coming out right now 09:30.780 --> 09:35.380 in the wake of this hurricane are so odd. 09:35.840 --> 09:37.840 Like immediately they're telling everyone 09:37.840 --> 09:38.760 everything is fine. 09:39.100 --> 09:42.400 And I don't know how they could really know that. 09:42.840 --> 09:44.960 Case in point, you heard him talk 09:44.960 --> 09:46.940 about nuclear fuel services. 09:47.720 --> 09:50.640 Nuclear fuel services is a company 09:50.640 --> 09:54.140 that sits basically 0.2 miles away 09:54.140 --> 09:55.520 from the Nola Chucky River. 09:55.720 --> 09:58.940 It's like right there in Irwin, Tennessee on the river. 09:59.220 --> 10:00.960 It's a major supplier of fuel 10:01.300 --> 10:03.800 for the US Navy's nuclear powered fleet. 10:03.800 --> 10:06.200 And it has been since the 1960s. 10:06.300 --> 10:08.040 However, back in 2021, 10:08.600 --> 10:12.300 they received a $57.5 million grant 10:12.300 --> 10:16.000 to reprocess weapons grade uranium 10:16.000 --> 10:17.900 into nuclear reactor fuel. 10:18.320 --> 10:19.880 So that's what's been going on 10:20.240 --> 10:22.020 right there on the Nola Chucky River 10:22.020 --> 10:24.760 in Irwin, Tennessee for several years now. 10:25.280 --> 10:28.220 And apparently 13 days ago 10:28.220 --> 10:30.980 somebody in the r slash radiation subreddit 10:30.980 --> 10:34.880 posted this picture of a barrel reportedly found 10:34.880 --> 10:38.040 in the French Broad River in Asheville, North Carolina. 10:38.260 --> 10:42.680 And the barrel says B&W Y12 LLC Oak Ridge, Tennessee 10:43.220 --> 10:45.040 radioactive material on it. 10:45.380 --> 10:47.020 And so a week ago you have this story 10:47.020 --> 10:49.400 coming out of WBIR TV Knoxville. 10:49.960 --> 10:53.140 No, this barrel reportedly found in an Asheville River 10:53.140 --> 10:55.400 did not contain radioactive waste. 10:55.820 --> 10:59.060 Although at one time it technically actually did 10:59.060 --> 11:01.220 just not supposedly at the time 11:01.220 --> 11:02.500 that it went into this river. 11:03.480 --> 11:06.380 So what this debunking story claims 11:06.380 --> 11:09.660 is that yes, this actually is a barrel 11:09.660 --> 11:13.900 that originated in the Y12 National Security Complex 11:13.900 --> 11:17.440 in the Oak Ridge, Tennessee facilities that process uranium. 11:18.360 --> 11:21.320 And yes, some of these barrels did end up 11:21.320 --> 11:24.520 in Irwin at nuclear fuel services. 11:25.040 --> 11:28.520 And yes, they were kept in a warehouse offsite 11:28.520 --> 11:32.200 that was actually heavily damaged in the floods 11:32.200 --> 11:35.840 resulting in some NFS property being carried away 11:35.840 --> 11:39.960 by floodwater, but it's just empty clean containers 11:39.960 --> 11:43.000 and training equipment and protective equipment. 11:43.720 --> 11:45.520 And even though it says 11:45.520 --> 11:48.080 fissile radioactive material on this barrel, 11:48.520 --> 11:50.280 this barrel's empty and clean. 11:51.300 --> 11:53.200 And so it's fine. 11:53.520 --> 11:54.460 It's basically what it says. 11:54.600 --> 11:57.660 It's basically this yes, yes, but no, it's fine. 11:57.660 --> 11:59.320 And everything's fine, don't worry about it. 11:59.540 --> 12:01.960 And I just think it's interesting 12:01.960 --> 12:05.600 how quickly they were saying everything is totally fine 12:05.600 --> 12:06.840 with this facility. 12:07.140 --> 12:08.860 So the timeline on this storm 12:09.260 --> 12:11.620 in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee 12:11.620 --> 12:14.380 is that it moved inland 12:14.380 --> 12:17.000 degenerated into a post-tropical cyclone 12:17.000 --> 12:20.500 over Tennessee on September 27th. 12:20.620 --> 12:24.600 It stalled out there and sat there all day on the 28th 12:24.600 --> 12:27.340 and didn't dissipate until the following day 12:27.340 --> 12:28.780 on the 29th. 12:28.820 --> 12:33.960 But somehow by 5.25 p.m. on Saturday the 28th 12:33.960 --> 12:37.240 while the storm is still stalled out over Tennessee 12:37.680 --> 12:38.900 for the rest of that day 12:38.900 --> 12:40.900 and part of the next day before it dissipated. 12:41.280 --> 12:43.640 On that day, nuclear fuel services 12:43.640 --> 12:45.980 located right next to the Nolichucky River 12:45.980 --> 12:47.560 is already telling everyone 12:47.560 --> 12:49.260 their nuclear materials are safe. 12:49.400 --> 12:51.200 It's all safe following the flooding 12:51.660 --> 12:54.720 that was presumably still ongoing at that time. 12:55.160 --> 12:55.960 You see what I'm saying? 12:56.220 --> 12:59.500 You see why that comes off as just a little bit odd. 12:59.920 --> 13:01.040 It has changed forever. 13:01.520 --> 13:04.320 So it's not gonna go back to how it was. 13:04.640 --> 13:06.040 And I did a little digging 13:06.040 --> 13:11.940 and this area on record had numerous EPA superfund sites 13:12.360 --> 13:16.640 in it, including a former electroplating facility 13:16.640 --> 13:18.240 called CTS in Asheville 13:18.240 --> 13:20.220 that contaminated the groundwater 13:20.220 --> 13:24.160 with a toxic carcinogen called trichloroethylene 13:24.680 --> 13:27.140 that was found to be in the water 13:27.140 --> 13:29.740 more than 4,000 times the safe standard. 13:30.560 --> 13:31.880 And they're still in the process 13:31.880 --> 13:35.060 of trying to clean that up and monitor that. 13:35.660 --> 13:36.800 And then on top of that, 13:36.940 --> 13:38.920 you have the former Chemtronic site 13:39.420 --> 13:42.600 which was disposing of things from Northrop Grumman 13:42.600 --> 13:48.260 and Chemtronics where they were producing CS tear gas, 13:48.620 --> 13:51.560 Mark 24 flares and the top secret BZ 13:51.560 --> 13:53.760 which is a powerful hallucinogen 13:53.760 --> 13:56.460 that was created to take out enemy populations. 13:56.700 --> 13:58.600 They were making all this stuff on that site 13:58.600 --> 14:00.780 back in the Cold War era. 14:01.680 --> 14:05.380 And the disposal methods of these things are horrifying. 14:05.660 --> 14:10.300 You had drums of BZ and CS just being buried on the site. 14:10.460 --> 14:12.900 You had liquid chemicals being dumped down the drains 14:12.900 --> 14:14.520 and fed into nearby streams 14:15.360 --> 14:17.960 and explosives being incinerated on site 14:17.960 --> 14:20.060 and what the EPA referred to in documents 14:20.060 --> 14:21.940 as the acid pit area. 14:22.780 --> 14:25.900 And in 2016, it was reported that the Chemtronic site, 14:26.120 --> 14:28.340 it will take at least 30 more years 14:28.880 --> 14:32.700 before the groundwater is safe to drink there. 14:32.960 --> 14:34.360 And that was in 2016. 14:35.080 --> 14:38.440 So these are places that were also flooded. 14:38.580 --> 14:40.900 The EPA did put a message up on their website 14:40.900 --> 14:45.120 about CTS that simply reads that the EPA has evaluated it 14:45.120 --> 14:47.480 and determined that there were no storm impacts 14:47.480 --> 14:51.620 from Hulene, but these are just the officially designated 14:51.620 --> 14:53.340 EPA superfund sites. 14:53.460 --> 14:55.380 According to Mountain Express of Asheville, 14:55.460 --> 14:57.600 there are also at least 50 hazardous sites 14:57.600 --> 14:59.060 just in Buncombe County alone. 14:59.840 --> 15:02.080 And the majority of these sites have not been dealt with yet. 15:02.520 --> 15:04.760 So you have things like PCBs, DDT, 15:04.940 --> 15:06.960 paint thinners, pesticides, all kinds of stuff. 15:07.080 --> 15:09.200 And they've just been kind of fenced in. 15:09.300 --> 15:11.080 They just put a fence around some of these areas 15:11.080 --> 15:12.020 and they're just sitting there. 15:12.060 --> 15:13.240 They have not been cleaned up yet. 15:13.660 --> 15:15.180 The water coming from, 15:15.180 --> 15:17.020 where all this kind of started in Tennessee, 15:18.620 --> 15:22.100 that was already, people were already getting sick 15:22.100 --> 15:25.680 because of chemicals being dumped there. 15:26.360 --> 15:29.800 There's actual nuclear stuff, all kinds of things. 15:30.400 --> 15:32.120 And now you're adding to it. 15:32.620 --> 15:35.280 Like you said, there's mildew, there's literal death, 15:35.600 --> 15:38.460 animals, human beings, there's sewage, 15:38.620 --> 15:41.400 there's more chemicals that were dumped 15:41.400 --> 15:43.660 whether purposely or not in Asheville 15:43.660 --> 15:45.880 where you can, as nasty as it is, 15:45.940 --> 15:47.900 you see like soap bubbles almost on top. 15:48.060 --> 15:52.020 So people are having to, if they're gonna bathe, 15:52.140 --> 15:53.520 that's the water they have. 15:53.960 --> 15:55.860 Or if you're drinking water, 15:56.600 --> 16:00.180 I don't think Old Fort has public water yet. 16:00.400 --> 16:01.560 But if you have a well, 16:01.920 --> 16:03.540 I mean, obviously this is what you're getting. 16:03.820 --> 16:03.960 Right. 16:04.360 --> 16:05.560 And there have been a couple of documentaries 16:05.560 --> 16:06.540 that have come out now 16:06.540 --> 16:10.600 about the already toxified waterways in North Carolina 16:10.940 --> 16:13.780 that tests have been done all over the entire state 16:13.780 --> 16:16.820 and have found forever chemicals, PFAS, 16:17.280 --> 16:18.900 and things like that in the water. 16:19.360 --> 16:22.420 This map shows PFAS contamination across the U.S. 16:22.520 --> 16:24.900 and many communities have yet to be tested. 16:25.480 --> 16:27.420 So there's some serious problems already 16:27.420 --> 16:30.520 with water contamination in North Carolina. 16:31.100 --> 16:31.740 It's an issue. 16:31.880 --> 16:33.460 It was an issue before this happened. 16:34.060 --> 16:35.540 Discharge from local companies 16:35.540 --> 16:37.540 bubbling up to the surface in the water there. 16:37.620 --> 16:39.740 At first glance, the discharge looks unnatural 16:39.740 --> 16:42.420 and suspicious, but this process is totally legal 16:42.420 --> 16:45.120 of Tennessee and more importantly, this is safe. 16:45.400 --> 16:48.020 And even just a quick search on the internet 16:48.020 --> 16:50.860 will show you that Tennessee had a lot of water issues 16:50.860 --> 16:53.200 going on prior to this event as well. 16:54.060 --> 16:56.620 But the Tennessee Department of Environment 16:56.620 --> 17:01.120 and Conservation put out a temporary water contact advisory 17:01.120 --> 17:03.520 for East Tennessee areas affected by the flooding 17:03.520 --> 17:05.200 on October 2nd. 17:05.200 --> 17:07.140 And it says here they're advising the public 17:07.140 --> 17:09.580 to avoid all contact with water bodies 17:09.580 --> 17:11.980 affected by the extreme flooding in East Tennessee, 17:12.320 --> 17:14.720 which applies to surface waters in the Nolichucky, 17:14.860 --> 17:17.740 French Broad, Pigeon, Doe, and Wataga River watersheds, 17:17.880 --> 17:19.560 as well as any other waters 17:19.560 --> 17:21.140 that were affected by this flooding. 17:21.800 --> 17:24.440 And it says here in the aftermath of unprecedented flooding 17:24.440 --> 17:25.820 caused by Hurricane Helene, 17:26.040 --> 17:28.180 several wastewater treatment plants have been compromised 17:28.180 --> 17:31.180 and are temporarily unable to completely treat effluent 17:31.180 --> 17:32.720 before it enters receiving waters. 17:33.240 --> 17:35.000 In addition, sewer line crossings 17:35.000 --> 17:36.380 may have been severed or damaged, 17:36.640 --> 17:39.040 allowing raw sewage to enter streams 17:39.040 --> 17:40.620 and individual septic systems 17:40.620 --> 17:42.480 may be compromised across their region. 17:43.080 --> 17:45.660 And they're saying it's issued out of an abundance of caution. 17:45.860 --> 17:47.300 They don't have any specific data, 17:47.520 --> 17:50.040 and I don't think they would by October 2nd, 17:50.040 --> 17:53.260 but they also have not updated this since then, 17:53.380 --> 17:56.600 which means that this advisory is still in effect 17:56.600 --> 17:58.780 and has been in effect this entire time. 17:59.080 --> 18:00.560 And it's also been reported 18:00.560 --> 18:03.060 one of the main wastewater treatment plants 18:03.060 --> 18:05.700 that services Spruce Pine North Carolina 18:05.700 --> 18:08.340 and Mitchell County was completely destroyed. 18:08.980 --> 18:11.620 Wastewater treatment plant located just north of Main Street 18:11.620 --> 18:13.200 is entirely out of operation, 18:13.580 --> 18:16.540 which serves several thousand people in Spruce Pine 18:16.540 --> 18:18.540 along with multiple Mitchell County schools 18:18.540 --> 18:20.180 and some county residents. 18:21.180 --> 18:23.680 And they're trying to do an education campaign right now 18:23.680 --> 18:25.020 to tell people not to flush 18:25.020 --> 18:27.400 because whatever they're flushing down the toilet 18:27.400 --> 18:30.200 is likely ending up directly in rivers and streams. 18:30.880 --> 18:34.720 And it says that two of the buildings, 18:34.800 --> 18:36.180 two of the buildings that were here, 18:36.180 --> 18:39.360 floated away and the remaining treatment tanks 18:39.360 --> 18:42.440 have taken on a gangrenous green color. 18:43.140 --> 18:45.720 And this facility was built directly on the river. 18:46.420 --> 18:50.300 So all of that stuff just went right into the water. 18:50.700 --> 18:52.480 And it says in this article once again 18:52.480 --> 18:53.900 that residents should take heed 18:53.900 --> 18:56.640 when approaching or working in water and streams 18:56.640 --> 18:58.840 that could be contaminated by this flood. 18:59.440 --> 19:01.300 North Carolina State Senator Ralph Hies 19:01.300 --> 19:05.260 gave a press conference apparently last week 19:05.260 --> 19:08.380 and he said that treatment plant is gone. 19:08.920 --> 19:11.100 He said that it does not exist. 19:11.260 --> 19:13.120 It is completely unsalvageable 19:13.120 --> 19:15.500 and that it's gonna likely take four years 19:15.880 --> 19:17.120 to build a new one. 19:17.620 --> 19:20.520 So all of those, there was 15,000 people in Spruce Pine 19:20.520 --> 19:22.540 and thousands of people now are gonna be 19:22.540 --> 19:26.740 without wastewater treatment facilities for years now. 19:27.040 --> 19:29.980 I don't know what's going on in that well water 19:29.980 --> 19:30.740 at this point, 19:30.740 --> 19:33.800 but I just think an abundance of caution 19:33.800 --> 19:35.580 is an understatement. 19:36.060 --> 19:37.980 And at least somebody was talking about this. 19:38.360 --> 19:41.280 US News put out this article on September 30th, 19:41.280 --> 19:43.280 just pretty much right after this happened, 19:43.640 --> 19:46.300 reminding everyone of a basic fact 19:46.660 --> 19:49.180 that is a known fact in this country. 19:49.640 --> 19:50.880 Flooded industrial sites, 19:51.020 --> 19:53.580 toxic chemicals post silent threats after a hurricane. 19:54.040 --> 19:55.400 In disasters like Haleen, 19:55.480 --> 19:57.060 residents may not hear about releases 19:57.060 --> 19:58.900 of toxic chemicals into water or air 19:58.900 --> 20:02.520 until weeks later, if they do at all. 20:02.520 --> 20:04.180 Hundreds of industrial facilities 20:04.180 --> 20:07.100 with toxic pollutants were in the path of Haleen 20:07.100 --> 20:09.140 and near the coast and into Georgia, for example, 20:09.280 --> 20:11.320 it swept over paper mills, fertilizer factories, 20:11.620 --> 20:13.500 oil and gas storage facilities. 20:14.100 --> 20:15.700 And it mentions here that paper mills 20:15.700 --> 20:17.500 are some of the most polluting industries on the planet. 20:17.960 --> 20:20.580 In Florida, a retired nuclear power plant 20:20.580 --> 20:23.140 was hit with a 12 foot storm surge, 20:23.580 --> 20:25.580 which inundated not only the buildings 20:25.580 --> 20:27.520 but an industrial wastewater pond 20:27.520 --> 20:30.400 and there's spent nuclear fuel stored at that site, 20:30.540 --> 20:32.340 which was also flooded during another hurricane 20:32.340 --> 20:32.940 in 2023. 20:33.580 --> 20:36.800 What Bloomberg reported, it's believed to be secure. 20:37.220 --> 20:38.900 Well, believed to be secure and secure 20:38.900 --> 20:41.340 is just not really the same exact thing, is it? 20:41.760 --> 20:42.780 And then it goes on to say 20:42.780 --> 20:45.320 that more rain was dumped on industrial sites 20:45.320 --> 20:46.600 in the Carolinas in Tennessee, 20:47.220 --> 20:49.120 some near waterways that quickly flooded 20:49.600 --> 20:50.920 was runoff into the mountains. 20:51.580 --> 20:52.640 In disasters like these, 20:52.760 --> 20:54.840 the industrial damage can unfold over days 20:54.840 --> 20:56.640 and residents may not hear about releases 20:56.640 --> 20:58.700 of toxic chemicals into the water or air 20:58.700 --> 21:00.240 until days or weeks later, 21:00.240 --> 21:02.240 if they find out at all, 21:02.660 --> 21:04.940 yet pollution releases are common. 21:05.520 --> 21:08.880 So I was getting told that I'm fear-mongering 21:08.880 --> 21:11.540 for warning people about the potential toxicity 21:12.120 --> 21:14.140 of this water and this mud 21:14.140 --> 21:15.740 and what might happen 21:16.240 --> 21:18.820 if you come into too much contact with it. 21:19.020 --> 21:20.980 And it's not fear-mongering, 21:21.120 --> 21:23.860 it's common sense to protect people 21:23.860 --> 21:27.360 if you're going into these areas to protect yourself 21:28.160 --> 21:30.320 because we don't know 21:30.320 --> 21:33.360 and we won't know for a while how safe 21:33.360 --> 21:35.520 that water and that mud is, 21:35.520 --> 21:37.620 but the stories that are coming out 21:37.620 --> 21:40.180 and the messages that people have written me 21:40.180 --> 21:42.920 and the things that I'm seeing on social media, 21:43.240 --> 21:45.240 there are a lot of people that are talking about 21:45.620 --> 21:47.520 being very concerned about this. 21:47.880 --> 21:48.820 I'm telling you, 21:49.400 --> 21:52.980 and this is part of why Grindstone is not mucking houses. 21:53.540 --> 21:55.560 I don't want our people in these houses. 21:55.560 --> 21:57.520 We don't want them in the silt. 21:57.860 --> 22:00.480 We have pallets of PPE for anybody 22:00.480 --> 22:02.300 that has to go anywhere near it. 22:02.700 --> 22:04.800 There is bad stuff in the water. 22:04.980 --> 22:06.600 There is bad stuff in the silt. 22:07.240 --> 22:10.240 So it only makes sense to be safe and protect yourself. 22:10.860 --> 22:13.200 It's not fear-mongering to have this conversation. 22:13.360 --> 22:15.580 This is a conversation that should be had. 22:15.900 --> 22:17.540 And I just think it's sad 22:17.540 --> 22:21.260 that years and years of these events happening, 22:21.420 --> 22:23.100 we have years and years and years. 22:23.100 --> 22:25.660 I'm an American, okay? 22:25.720 --> 22:26.920 I've been here for four decades. 22:27.220 --> 22:28.140 And if you've been even paying 22:28.140 --> 22:30.380 even the slightest bit of attention at all, 22:30.560 --> 22:31.940 then you know how this works. 22:32.340 --> 22:34.680 There's always this immediate, everything's fine. 22:35.060 --> 22:36.140 Don't worry about it. 22:36.420 --> 22:38.840 And then later, stuff starts coming out. 22:39.040 --> 22:41.540 The idea that anyone could just trust 22:41.540 --> 22:43.720 automatic reassurances of safety 22:43.720 --> 22:45.840 that are based on literally nothing 22:45.840 --> 22:48.780 just because somebody in a position of authority 22:48.780 --> 22:50.260 got on TV and said it, 22:50.480 --> 22:52.640 I don't understand how that still works on people 22:52.640 --> 22:55.380 at all, at all at this point. 22:55.520 --> 22:56.160 I really don't. 22:56.400 --> 22:57.580 You wanna know what we'll never forget? 22:57.800 --> 22:59.720 We'll never forget how the head of the EPA 23:00.140 --> 23:02.280 the two days after 9-11 happened, 23:02.640 --> 23:05.380 got on TV and said it's fine. 23:05.860 --> 23:06.940 The air is fine to breathe. 23:07.420 --> 23:09.000 There's no asbestos, it's great. 23:09.400 --> 23:11.060 Just two days after the attacks, 23:11.420 --> 23:13.680 EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman 23:13.680 --> 23:16.200 reassured New Yorkers about the air. 23:16.660 --> 23:18.580 Well, if there's any good news out of all this, 23:18.860 --> 23:21.100 it's that everything we've tested for, 23:21.100 --> 23:24.280 which includes asbestos lead and VOCs 23:24.280 --> 23:26.300 have been below any level of concern 23:26.300 --> 23:27.600 for the general public health. 23:27.760 --> 23:28.420 Was it though? 23:28.700 --> 23:29.900 No, it absolutely was not. 23:30.320 --> 23:32.420 And two years later in 2003, 23:32.540 --> 23:35.060 the Inspector General for the EPA came out and said 23:35.060 --> 23:36.880 there was no basis for those claims. 23:37.360 --> 23:38.520 So why'd she say it? 23:38.860 --> 23:40.220 Why do they always say it? 23:40.500 --> 23:42.440 That's a question no one ever asks themselves, 23:42.640 --> 23:43.600 but maybe they should. 23:43.980 --> 23:45.400 After Hurricane Katrina, 23:45.720 --> 23:50.000 the EPA took 400,000 laboratory samples 23:50.000 --> 23:52.120 of soil and flood sediment. 23:52.500 --> 23:55.360 Later, an analysis was done of that data, 23:55.880 --> 23:58.040 the policy frameworks that guided the collection 23:58.040 --> 23:59.280 and organization of it, 23:59.520 --> 24:01.400 and the agency's subsequent claims 24:01.400 --> 24:04.080 about the relative absence of risk, 24:04.140 --> 24:06.260 which is another nice way of just saying the safety 24:06.260 --> 24:08.840 of people returning to the city, 24:09.000 --> 24:10.860 residents going back to the city, right? 24:11.200 --> 24:12.760 This analysis revealed, quote, 24:13.340 --> 24:15.120 some of the ways in which risk assessment 24:15.120 --> 24:17.440 in the U.S. Environmental Regulatory System 24:17.440 --> 24:19.940 is deeply structured by the production 24:19.940 --> 24:21.780 and reproduction of ignorance. 24:22.380 --> 24:24.780 In short, it is set up to fail. 24:25.340 --> 24:30.020 It is literally built to not do the thing 24:30.020 --> 24:30.980 it's supposed to do.