WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.280 we're halfway down the mountain the reservoir is closer to the top and it was going to come down and then um 00:06.320 --> 00:10.380 but we couldn't get out of our street because trees were down we had 17 minutes between 00:10.380 --> 00:16.400 the alert that said evacuate mandatory evacuation evacuate now 00:17.180 --> 00:22.240 and then shelter in place seek highest ground we had 17 minutes to leave and we couldn't 00:22.240 --> 00:35.560 and there was nowhere to go so we had to stay we gotta think about getting out of here 00:39.660 --> 00:40.920 walk around 00:40.920 --> 01:09.450 all right this what is probably gonna end up being a really long video uh 01:10.040 --> 01:16.370 is gonna start off just a little differently because there are people there are Americans right now 01:16.370 --> 01:22.550 who are trapped in these flood-ridden areas of western north carolina eastern tennessee 01:22.550 --> 01:30.230 that thousands of people are missing we don't even know we won't know for a while 01:30.230 --> 01:36.530 like what's really going on how many people are alive or dead it's the stories that are coming 01:36.530 --> 01:42.350 out right now are insane and i can't even wrap my mind around it i'm actually really pissed off but 01:43.030 --> 01:48.370 before i get into all of that before we get into all of that people in these areas right now 01:48.930 --> 01:53.250 are are without power they're without clean water they don't they don't have food 01:53.970 --> 01:59.850 gas medicine supplies things like diapers they're they're they're stranded and they have nothing 02:00.610 --> 02:07.510 and so i want to start off with just a couple of resources that might help people because there's 02:08.210 --> 02:13.670 not a lot of information in central locations that people can access easily so i try to find 02:13.670 --> 02:17.710 some stuff like that i want to put it up front for the people who who really need it 02:18.370 --> 02:23.870 so the first thing that i found that i thought seemed very useful was up at citizens times they've 02:23.870 --> 02:33.030 posted a an interactive citizens emergency map which has dots all over it and if you switch to 02:33.030 --> 02:38.850 data view it tells you things like where you can go to get water where you can go to get food 02:39.410 --> 02:44.490 emergency shelters that are open places where you can charge a cell phone or get wi-fi places 02:44.490 --> 02:49.910 where you can get a free meal places where you can take a shower there's lists here has addresses 02:50.810 --> 02:56.970 information about when that's happening and so that's like 17 pages of stuff that people have 02:56.970 --> 03:02.750 provided here for people who are needing these resources and i will put that link first i'm 03:02.750 --> 03:06.270 going to make a list of links i'm going to stick it in a pinned comment below it'll be the 03:06.270 --> 03:10.850 top pin comment this is going to be the first link on it anybody you know that's in that 03:10.850 --> 03:16.410 area that's that needs help you could send them this link because it's just so much information of 03:16.410 --> 03:21.510 places where they can you know take a shower or charge their phone or get something to eat or get 03:21.510 --> 03:28.690 water which everyone is desperate for right now or a meal so i'm going to put that link first 03:29.410 --> 03:36.670 the second thing that i think everyone needs to see and it's pretty astounding there's a facebook 03:36.670 --> 03:42.050 group and i wouldn't normally say hey go join facebook we were kicked off of facebook years ago 03:42.050 --> 03:48.810 and i i don't recommend facebook and i never usually would but i am now for this reason only 03:49.390 --> 03:54.410 there is a missing persons group that has been set up for eastern tennessee and western north 03:54.410 --> 04:01.470 carolina due to the flood it was set up four days ago and it already has 66 000 members 04:02.250 --> 04:08.050 there have been over 200 posts on here just today of people who are missing it's a place where you 04:08.050 --> 04:13.590 can go and post a picture of your loved one or a name and information if you're trying to find 04:13.590 --> 04:18.430 somebody that you haven't heard from that lives in these areas that have been affected by this 04:18.430 --> 04:26.370 storm there have been 2100 posts just in the last four days on this group of people who are 04:26.370 --> 04:32.610 missing it's it's insane thousands of people are missing right now that no one has heard from 04:32.610 --> 04:36.530 they don't know if they're trapped they don't know if they're hurt they don't know what's going on 04:37.090 --> 04:43.750 so that's one place you can go and join and and post a picture another place is this google 04:43.750 --> 04:48.550 document that's been set up the hurricane helene people finder it's basically just a google 04:48.550 --> 04:52.970 spreadsheet but they have a form here that you can fill out you can put the name of the 04:52.970 --> 05:00.070 person you know where their last known location was of these states and any additional details like 05:00.070 --> 05:05.230 their address or their license plate or any information you have about this person to try 05:05.230 --> 05:10.190 and find them and then you can put your information so they can contact you and they're basically 05:10.190 --> 05:15.610 just keeping up this color coded spreadsheet of people who are missing and that's in red 05:15.610 --> 05:22.170 and people are found although there is one on this list that says deceased in yellow um 05:22.170 --> 05:31.050 they're updating this all the time but there are over 2500 names on this list so again thousands of 05:31.050 --> 05:36.770 people are missing so if you're missing somebody and you go to this facebook page and join it and 05:36.770 --> 05:41.970 put that person and you go to this google spreadsheet and put their name you've now put that out there 05:41.970 --> 05:47.270 in the two places that i found that have the most people concentrated together trying to help 05:47.270 --> 05:52.770 each other locate they're missing friends and family members in this in this situation 06:13.190 --> 06:32.800 we were not warned 06:56.150 --> 06:59.090 devastation we're dealing with here jimmy rock's gone 07:00.410 --> 07:03.510 flowering bridge's gone and 07:05.230 --> 07:10.730 road's gone everything on the farm drowned couldn't get everything out 07:13.490 --> 07:17.810 we managed to save one horse well leaving comments of oh i didn't they evacuate 07:17.810 --> 07:24.070 i don't think you comprehend how quickly this happened and these areas have never flooded 07:24.070 --> 07:29.410 like this before i don't think i've ever seen i've never never seen downtown balloon a boon flood 07:29.410 --> 07:33.770 like this look at that we have one way in and one way out how we're supposed to flee if and when 07:33.770 --> 07:38.910 that bridge goes it took our bridge it took our driveway the amount of bridges that are out the 07:38.910 --> 07:44.830 amount of landlocked um stranded people is unbelievable guys with me that have done it 07:44.830 --> 07:51.610 30 years and they've never seen anything like this it's been an incredibly apocalyptic weekend 07:51.610 --> 07:58.030 for all of us here the news is not even coming close to catching the true devastation 08:00.710 --> 08:09.330 there are bodies that are floating down the river babies they literally watched multiple 08:09.330 --> 08:14.970 neighbors die one was hit by a tree others were washed away literally the house was floating 08:14.970 --> 08:20.430 away with people in it um they they are in shock they are traumatized it's not enough 08:20.430 --> 08:25.050 what what is being done is not enough there's still plenty of people completely unaccounted for 08:25.910 --> 09:54.940 keep these these locals in your prayers the destruction and devastation caused by this 09:55.560 --> 10:01.760 hurricane up in the mountainous areas of eastern tennessee and western north carolina is 10:02.620 --> 10:09.540 it's beyond unprecedented they're they're actually saying this is a one thousand year 10:09.540 --> 10:13.680 weather event but i think they're just slapping the number one thousand on there because they 10:13.680 --> 10:17.440 they want to put a really big number because they've never seen anything like this before 10:17.440 --> 10:26.180 we're looking at a one in a one thousand year rain event here these are areas where the roads 10:26.180 --> 10:33.920 are very narrow in places mass exodus probably wouldn't even have been possible if they could 10:33.920 --> 10:40.440 have done it in time and they didn't have a lot of time in a lot of areas this if you pull up on 10:40.440 --> 10:45.080 this trying to get out you're not going this way and there might not be another road on the other 10:45.080 --> 10:49.260 side to get you somewhere because you're going to get swept down a mountain i don't think you 10:49.260 --> 10:55.760 can tell when people are criticizing that they don't really understand the geography of this 10:56.840 --> 11:01.960 region you've got spotty reception service so if they're sending out emergency alerts people 11:01.960 --> 11:09.460 aren't probably getting them and i've even seen meteorologists being quoted as saying the messaging 11:09.460 --> 11:15.460 could have been stronger to warn people to get out but we have to cut everyone some slack because 11:15.460 --> 11:21.040 what happened doesn't even make any sense okay that's that's the level we're talking about 11:21.800 --> 11:26.500 and the problem with leaving that some people don't seem to realize at all is that the government 11:26.500 --> 11:32.580 might prevent you from coming back but we'll get to that momentarily this hurricane helene came up 11:32.580 --> 11:40.320 into here and dumped 40 trillion gallons of water in a very short amount of time into areas that 11:40.320 --> 11:46.320 don't see water like that and the water just had nowhere to go and there are still mudslides 11:46.320 --> 11:52.400 happening there's still flooding that has not receded yet it's just too much water it has 11:52.400 --> 11:57.940 to go somewhere so you've got people like i said they're describing this as not just unprecedented 11:57.940 --> 12:07.260 but apocalyptic there are depending on where you look they're reporting cbs news yesterday reported 12:07.260 --> 12:15.120 131 deaths today the new york times is saying 183 in six states good morning america said the 12:15.120 --> 12:20.860 death toll has now reached 200 they're not going to know for a long time how many people 12:20.860 --> 12:30.400 have perished in this but thousands of people are missing so it rained for several days before 12:30.400 --> 12:36.380 this area was hit so it was already rained on and then this thing came through and just dumped 12:36.380 --> 12:44.380 insane amounts of water in some places 18 inches of water got dumped in 12 hours the highest number 12:44.380 --> 12:56.360 i saw for one little town was 31.33 inches of rain in bucic so 31 inches of rain is unimaginable 12:56.360 --> 13:03.180 i mean this is a kind of place where people plan for self-sufficiency they have had floods before 13:03.180 --> 13:10.900 but not anything anything like this been known recorded modern american history and it's been 13:12.140 --> 13:21.340 compared to the 1916 flood that happened in the area but that comparison is very that flood 13:21.340 --> 13:27.280 pales in comparison to this actually and it was pretty serious too i mean the stories at the time 13:27.280 --> 13:33.400 coming out about that flood are very harrowing stories you have just terrifying horrible 13:33.400 --> 13:40.140 things like babies being pulled out of people's arms and stuff but that flood was 22 inches of 13:40.140 --> 13:48.240 rain and total for the entire area was 80 deaths so we have more than doubled that number 13:48.940 --> 13:55.180 already and again people are still trapped up in here like there's there's no way to know how 13:55.180 --> 14:01.580 many people are missing they don't even have a good number right now i can not even tell you 14:01.580 --> 14:08.100 how many families even here outside of charlotte that are looking for their loved ones up in that 14:08.100 --> 14:14.380 area no one knows anything if you go to certain platforms there is picture after picture after 14:14.380 --> 14:18.880 picture of people that are missing and lost and people looking for their family members 14:18.880 --> 14:24.920 and it is not okay there's no coordinated central location where that information is going 14:24.920 --> 14:32.100 that's the thing it's all done by citizens it's definitely not happening through our government 14:32.800 --> 14:40.360 so anyway this is not the 1916 flood this is something else entirely that has happened here 14:40.360 --> 14:46.900 i grew up here i lived here i mean 30 years basically so on and off and i've never seen 14:46.900 --> 14:50.820 anything like it i've never seen devastation like this it's been flooded before but this is 14:50.820 --> 14:57.080 completely insane it's during that winter going down rain it rained Wednesday Thursday 14:57.080 --> 15:01.020 and she came fresh i mean everything she could move she moved 15:07.540 --> 15:28.760 my car is gone it's okay everything's gone it isn't just bridges that are washed out or roads 15:28.760 --> 15:36.840 that are washed away whole towns are are gone we've got upwards of almost a million people 15:36.840 --> 15:44.960 still without power as of today just in North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia alone 15:45.740 --> 15:53.640 and the stories that are coming out of people being trapped in areas where there's no running 15:53.640 --> 15:59.900 water they can't obviously flush toilets you have elderly and disabled people who can't 15:59.900 --> 16:08.380 get around very easily there are stories of children being found just abandoned in the woods 16:08.380 --> 16:12.300 not abandoned but their parents are nowhere to be found something must have happened to their 16:12.300 --> 16:17.860 parents because there's just children just in the woods and that's before you get into the 16:17.860 --> 16:25.980 much darker stuff that the media isn't talking about how they're saying just a couple hundred 16:25.980 --> 16:35.120 people on the news and social media he looked at me and just his face kind of head kind of drooped and 16:38.680 --> 16:41.960 he started choking up i put my hand on the bathroom buddy 16:42.900 --> 16:48.680 we're doing all we can do he said i've talked to people and they're pulling people out of houses 16:48.680 --> 16:56.400 about an hour just that they couldn't get out the water took them in trapped them in then the silt 16:56.400 --> 17:03.040 filled in they're there you go down through there and there's just houses with big x's on them 17:03.040 --> 17:08.000 or check marks on them i don't know what the x's mean i don't want to know what the x's mean but 17:08.000 --> 17:12.600 i'm hoping the check mark means that they're good that there that there's nobody in there that 17:12.600 --> 17:21.640 mean it's horrible and so now we're going to get to a part of the video that is probably going to 17:21.640 --> 17:27.540 pistol out of you off it really pisses me off i i find what i'm about to say to you very 17:27.540 --> 17:34.320 unreal because it in the first sense anyway what i'm about to tell you doesn't make any sense 17:34.730 --> 17:41.920 these people doing these rescue missions and saying you know don't fly drones around the area 17:43.020 --> 17:50.320 don't um bring in donations that aren't approved a lot of people are getting turned away for their 17:50.320 --> 17:58.460 donations and it's something is afoot here but this is the kind of stuff that's going on and 17:58.460 --> 18:05.460 i'm seeing it all over the place the formal press conference or something from either president 18:05.460 --> 18:12.620 biden or kamala harris i mean how do you not say anything for four days they've been stranded for 18:12.620 --> 18:19.400 four days and this is the first we've heard from them at all fema is not on the ground there 18:19.400 --> 18:25.480 do you have any faith in the federal response here no first of all you had a woman talking about 18:25.480 --> 18:32.180 how tima the tennessee emergency management agency was telling people not to send donations 18:32.920 --> 18:39.780 not to volunteer to come in to help people notification from tima i'm guessing that's 18:39.780 --> 18:45.100 fema for tennessee i'm not exactly sure i think it's supposed to be the disaster relief people 18:45.620 --> 18:50.600 but they were like do not donate your time we don't want your we don't want you to donate 18:50.600 --> 18:56.600 time unless we ask for you and we don't want you to donate stuff to other people you need 18:56.600 --> 19:03.580 to just donate money and stuff to us and get your instructions from us and listen to us what 19:03.580 --> 19:10.400 and was telling people to just give cash donations which a lot of people are saying if you know what 19:10.400 --> 19:14.980 that's about they put it into a fund it doesn't necessarily go where you think it's supposed to 19:14.980 --> 19:22.780 so donate to our local churches because they will make sure that the people that are 19:22.780 --> 19:28.160 needed will get it and people were saying this woman was making it up and it didn't sound true 19:28.160 --> 19:32.860 but then i found the post from tima they did say that it's right there was floored yesterday 19:32.860 --> 19:38.120 about how my community which is a little over an hour away from the affected areas showed up 19:38.120 --> 19:44.260 at donation sites with water and diapers and formula and some liquid iv i mean y'all brought 19:44.260 --> 19:49.080 all kind of things bleach vinegar you are ready to help and we're going to take more 19:49.080 --> 19:54.320 donations today and we're so grateful for everything because i'm going to get it into the hands of 19:54.320 --> 19:58.360 actual volunteers and i was asking people like why are you bringing it to me some of y'all don't 19:58.360 --> 20:03.000 even know me and they said well we don't trust the relief organizations anymore y'all we have 20:03.000 --> 20:08.920 lost our organizations to grifters we have lost our organizations to liars we pulled up to two 20:08.920 --> 20:14.360 different locations we asked some sheriffs we asked um some other fire departments they're 20:14.360 --> 20:20.040 all leading us to the command post which is fema they're not going to allow us to do anything 20:20.680 --> 20:25.000 the people the people are trying to help the people and they're being turned away there are 20:25.000 --> 20:29.940 even stories coming out that people are being threatened with arrest there was a civilian 20:29.940 --> 20:35.220 helicopter pilot who was going in on his own accord and pulling people out because people were 20:35.220 --> 20:40.460 writing to him to please come help them because he had posted on social media and he claimed 20:40.460 --> 20:45.700 that he was threatened with arrest multiple phone calls i received like this voicemails text messages 20:45.700 --> 20:51.360 and you could hear people desperate for help sit them spotted an older couple waiting for help 20:51.360 --> 20:57.700 then landed in what's left of their driveway i originally left my son co-pilot on the side 20:57.700 --> 21:03.640 of the mountain it was it was kind of unstable so i didn't want to put more weight in the 21:03.640 --> 21:08.060 helicopter to lift back off so i left my son with the other victim and and i was just going 21:08.060 --> 21:11.920 to take one person down at the time three minutes away sit them spotted a group of 21:11.920 --> 21:17.280 rescuers just down the river he landed and found someone in charge told him my background 21:17.280 --> 21:23.980 experience law enforcement uh firefighting uh pilot he immediately started helping with 21:23.980 --> 21:28.680 coordination he he gave me radio frequencies to coordinate with them on um set up a landing 21:28.680 --> 21:34.320 area for me to come back with the other victim and in the middle of the whole conversation 21:34.320 --> 21:39.640 and and then blocking the road off i was greeted by the uh at that time i didn't know 21:39.640 --> 21:44.420 but lake lure fire chief or assistant chief maybe and he shut down the whole operation 21:44.420 --> 21:48.640 so at that point there was i felt like the conversation wasn't going any further 21:48.640 --> 21:53.280 and again he asked me to leave and and i said hey i have no problem getting out of your 21:53.280 --> 21:57.600 area if that's what you want us to do we'll leave no issue at that point i asked him 21:57.600 --> 22:02.880 you know what was the reason i had to leave them there and and he said again you're 22:02.880 --> 22:06.500 interfering with my operation i just need you to get out of the area i said sir i'm 22:06.500 --> 22:09.940 i don't know where you were trained at but i know how my training is and i'm not going 22:09.940 --> 22:13.820 to leave personnel behind i'm going back to get my co-pilot he said if you turn around 22:13.820 --> 22:18.360 and go back up the mountain you're going to be arrested i said well sir i'm going back 22:18.360 --> 22:22.440 to get my co-pilot i don't know what to tell you and he said i'm i'm letting you know 22:22.440 --> 22:26.620 and at that point he waved for two law enforcement officers to come over and 22:26.620 --> 22:30.200 told me that again if i go back up the mountain i would be arrested i had a 22:30.200 --> 22:34.180 conversation with the female victim before i left apologizing and explaining 22:34.180 --> 22:36.660 she she was standing there she heard the whole conversation 22:37.320 --> 22:42.480 and um they were both very very surprised very upset the husband as i was 22:42.480 --> 22:45.820 leaving off of the side of the mountain at that point separated from his wife 22:46.300 --> 22:51.640 he was he was upset people who are going back into these properties that 22:51.640 --> 22:55.680 to try to salvage whatever is left on their own property to get their own 22:55.680 --> 23:00.460 stuff are being threatened with arrest it gave me instructions to come talk to you 23:00.460 --> 23:03.880 guys that you guys over the garden ample amount of time that i don't know what 23:03.880 --> 23:07.440 she told you i'm giving you guys a warning that's it just please back up 23:07.440 --> 23:11.780 for me that's literally do you say you're trying to get our stuff i got you 23:11.780 --> 23:16.900 i don't know what you guys been doing again this this is i did yeah that's 23:16.900 --> 23:20.600 perfectly fine again i don't know what you guys been doing i'm just giving 23:20.600 --> 23:24.240 you guys this morning that we're trying to get people so if i have to come 23:24.240 --> 23:28.520 back out over here like i don't know like the jail is processing all right 23:28.520 --> 23:31.960 that's it i'm not i'm that's the last so let me 23:31.960 --> 23:35.780 so you're gonna take us to jail come here i'm not taking you to jail you're 23:35.780 --> 23:38.100 gonna take you're threatening to take me to jail 23:39.540 --> 23:42.700 for trying to get our stuff off our property 23:43.360 --> 23:46.980 all right well one of these women in the room going out to 23:46.980 --> 23:49.740 impact and if we need to get another off that 23:49.740 --> 23:52.100 we want to look for an action then we'll be a look at them 23:54.680 --> 24:00.900 you heard okay you heard no i heard so you can be upset all you want i'm giving 24:00.900 --> 24:04.460 you guys a word i get it you guys i'm giving you guys a warning 24:04.460 --> 24:06.720 that if they have to come back out here they probably have to ask 24:06.720 --> 24:10.480 i guess they gotta escalate it then okay because we're trying to get our 24:10.480 --> 24:15.520 shit we got governor de santis of florida who state got hit 24:16.720 --> 24:22.000 sending extra stuff from florida florida we haven't handled 24:22.000 --> 24:25.500 we got approved for the individual citizens things we've wanted 24:26.210 --> 24:31.580 we have we have what we need uh i think most of the effort should be in western 24:31.580 --> 24:34.080 north carolina right now and people are saying 24:34.650 --> 24:38.600 the governor of florida is doing more for them in tennessee than their own 24:38.600 --> 24:42.920 governor is and you also have rep mills out of florida 24:42.920 --> 24:46.700 got five different locations that we're looking at today one location has five 24:46.700 --> 24:51.520 elderly a couple of others have an eight-year-old and a mother that's he's 24:51.520 --> 24:54.960 been flying stuff in he was on tv talking about where's fema 24:54.960 --> 24:58.600 everybody's been asking where's fema where's the aid why aren't they here 24:58.600 --> 25:02.900 why aren't they helping no actually the american people are the ones who are 25:02.900 --> 25:07.680 leading the efforts and so it you can see now 25:07.680 --> 25:10.900 that there is a tremendous amount of people that's just stepped up i've 25:10.900 --> 25:14.040 heard from others who said that they haven't heard or seen fema 25:14.040 --> 25:18.420 and there are allegations that people are being stopped 25:18.420 --> 25:23.460 from actually being able to save people and that it doesn't make any sense 25:23.460 --> 25:27.080 when i tell y'all i'm super frustrated at the moment is not a lot 25:27.580 --> 25:30.960 for the past 48 hours i had planned to go to 25:30.960 --> 25:34.240 east tennessee you know irwin newport and all that tomorrow 25:34.240 --> 25:38.040 i i just and then i get a phone call and an email 25:38.040 --> 25:42.580 or we're being told to stand down i've had emails where i've had a woman named 25:42.580 --> 25:47.240 laura asked for help her brother got swept away they have a video of him being 25:47.240 --> 25:49.960 swept away then she's just asking for help to get him 25:50.540 --> 25:54.180 and yet we're being told to stand down heard from these two people 25:54.180 --> 25:58.020 about how he went to take generators and supplies there and he was turned 25:58.020 --> 26:01.200 down the water food stuff like that 26:01.200 --> 26:06.360 turned down why you have people that really need things 26:06.360 --> 26:10.980 and i get it it's such a disarray i understand this was all so fast 26:10.980 --> 26:14.640 but at the end of the day man putting a halt to everything while there's people's 26:14.640 --> 26:17.180 lives at stake that are sitting out there somewhere 26:17.180 --> 26:20.440 that don't have anything that may be trapped may be hurt 26:20.440 --> 26:23.640 and you're asking people to stand down that have the capabilities 26:24.200 --> 26:27.380 to help somebody it doesn't make sense to me 26:27.380 --> 26:30.060 there's even a soldier that's putting out videos 26:30.680 --> 26:34.660 and it's almost like what she's saying is in a very obviously coded language 26:34.660 --> 26:37.740 that anyone can get if you just listen to what she's actually saying 26:37.740 --> 26:40.380 people are trying to figure out why we can't get there the only way 26:40.380 --> 26:43.780 there is through air roads are destroyed there's landslides 26:43.780 --> 26:47.380 most slides everywhere safest way and the only way we can get there is by 26:47.380 --> 26:51.220 flight not that many helicopters like i think right now we have like 10 but 26:51.220 --> 26:54.080 you gotta think how many people are missing and there's certain things i 26:54.080 --> 26:58.120 cannot i can i cannot say just because but take that in 26:58.120 --> 27:01.360 account there's a lot of people missing and it's day i think four or five 27:01.360 --> 27:06.180 i have sleep that bridge i can't think but it's been a couple of days people 27:06.180 --> 27:08.940 were without food and without water i think you can only go two days without 27:08.940 --> 27:11.980 water and that is if you are healthy not if you're a child 27:11.980 --> 27:15.800 not if you're an old lady or old person keep that in account where she says 27:15.800 --> 27:19.800 i'm as frustrated as you are but we can only do what we've been 27:19.800 --> 27:24.000 ordered to do they're not gonna let us go on foot they're not going to 27:24.000 --> 27:28.580 i i don't know why they're just listen i'm literally learning and i'm 27:28.580 --> 27:31.400 telling y'all or trying to tell y'all because i can't even tell y'all 27:31.400 --> 27:33.880 everything people are asking why don't we use animals 27:33.880 --> 27:37.880 or four rulers and stuff like that they have to approve a whatever 27:37.880 --> 27:41.500 that they have to approve it before we're able to do it does that make any 27:41.500 --> 27:45.080 sense if they don't approve it we cannot do it then again i know i sound 27:45.080 --> 27:48.660 aggressive but i am frustrated with y'all if that makes any sense i'm 27:48.660 --> 27:52.660 trying to level with you we're only doing what we're allowed to do and what 27:52.660 --> 27:55.440 we're told to do we cannot do anything other than that 27:55.440 --> 27:59.520 or the consequences will vary i understand that north carolina and 27:59.520 --> 28:01.980 everywhere is upset with us i get it there's 28:01.980 --> 28:06.260 there's nothing i can do there's literally nothing i can do and there's 28:06.260 --> 28:08.920 a lot of people asking where the military helicopters are 28:08.920 --> 28:13.260 where's all the response that's north carolina over there i'm in tennessee 28:13.260 --> 28:17.200 the government really wanted to help dude there would be helicopters and 28:17.200 --> 28:22.060 and you know military just everywhere there's none 28:22.060 --> 28:28.000 there's none what is going on the only thing i need from this video is 28:28.000 --> 28:33.280 helicopters if i have helicopters i can save lives yesterday when i was at the 28:33.280 --> 28:36.820 astral airport refueling which by the way the 28:36.820 --> 28:39.760 civilian is paying all this out of his own pocket he's not even looking for a 28:39.760 --> 28:42.340 reimbursement i think we did four refuelings yesterday 28:43.020 --> 28:47.740 and that was like just in half a day's work we're in astral and i saw two 28:47.740 --> 28:50.720 air force helicopter 60s and i knew there were pj just 28:50.720 --> 28:54.040 looking at them and i went up to him like hey guys like what are you all doing 28:54.040 --> 28:57.360 and like this is what you need to be doing this is this is how i'm finding 28:57.360 --> 29:00.980 people and they're like we can't go we're waiting on title 10 orders and i'm 29:00.980 --> 29:03.520 like what they just they can't get any of 40 29:03.520 --> 29:06.780 there's military helicopters all over here sitting on the ground 29:06.780 --> 29:10.600 and they can't do nothing even my j-sot boys in feteville 29:10.600 --> 29:14.220 they can't get orders to come out here it is just the most disgusting 29:14.220 --> 29:17.200 thing and they're killing these people and i don't know why they're doing it 29:17.200 --> 29:20.640 i don't know what kind of conspiracy i've heard so many things whatever you want 29:20.640 --> 29:23.680 to come up with but they are literally allowing these people to 29:23.680 --> 29:27.100 die in the mountains right now because we can't get helicopters 29:27.100 --> 29:32.580 and it wasn't until october second october second 29:34.340 --> 29:40.080 that biden finally approved a thousand soldiers i think 29:40.080 --> 29:44.800 i mean keep in mind this area that's affected is the size of massachusetts 29:44.800 --> 29:48.500 and he just now days after the fact 29:48.980 --> 29:52.360 just now approved a thousand soldiers when the first 29:52.360 --> 29:56.700 emergency declarations came down there was only 11 counties in that 29:56.700 --> 30:00.220 a lot of people were outraged including me because there was such 30:00.220 --> 30:03.300 devastation and in you know up to 90 counties 30:03.840 --> 30:07.220 so we call the white house but basically all of the relief efforts 30:07.220 --> 30:11.960 that have been going on have been by civilians civilian airplanes 30:11.960 --> 30:15.840 civilian helicopters civilian rescue vehicles 30:15.840 --> 30:20.020 civilian tractors and dozers and any kind of rescue 30:20.020 --> 30:26.720 and relief has all been done by civilians on saturday i was able to get 30:26.720 --> 30:31.700 into ashville i have a two-wheel drive vehicle i do not possess helicopters 30:31.700 --> 30:36.500 or giant military bulldozers or bridge layers just a two-wheel drive vehicle 30:36.500 --> 30:39.960 and i got into ashville it took me six hours i had to care 30:39.960 --> 30:44.640 because i was going into help people i'm not quite sure how a government that has 30:44.640 --> 30:48.580 the biggest military on the planet can't figure it out 30:49.980 --> 30:53.200 i'm not quite sure why that same government that has 30:53.200 --> 30:56.900 all the information gathering techniques that it has and satellites 30:58.340 --> 31:01.760 is telling people there's still no way to get into the area they're not 31:01.760 --> 31:05.420 going to let us go on foot they're not going to and i this is 31:05.980 --> 31:09.820 extra pathetic what i'm about to say is extra extra pathetic 31:10.520 --> 31:14.480 but and i never thought i'd be saying this ever like in the history of of time 31:14.480 --> 31:21.780 but hurricane katrina i mean it has gone down in history is one of the worst responses 31:21.780 --> 31:27.080 there were a lot of atrocities that happened in the responses there were a lot of things 31:27.080 --> 31:32.500 that were being done that were absolutely not okay but one of the things that was done 31:32.500 --> 31:37.420 is they were already calling out coast guard and positioning people before that hurricane 31:37.420 --> 31:46.600 ever even got to the coast they already had military in position within days they had deployed 31:47.390 --> 31:55.040 tens of thousands of guard and soldiers into that area there were 30 thousand national 31:55.040 --> 32:00.600 guard troops deployed into that area for relief by september second ironically 32:00.600 --> 32:07.820 the north carolina national guard was sent down there along with 3500 soldiers out of the 32:07.820 --> 32:14.600 82nd airborne division of fort bragg in north carolina they went down to new orleans along with 32:14.600 --> 32:19.840 30 helicopters there's military helicopters all over here sitting on the ground and they 32:19.840 --> 32:25.100 can't do nothing which were prepared to deploy on short notice they had 24 000 troops on the 32:25.100 --> 32:30.340 ground in louisiana and mississippi i actually did a little more digging and it's actually 32:30.340 --> 32:37.800 even more troops than that article mentioned because they they sent people out from the army 32:37.800 --> 32:44.100 the marines they sent out they they quoted a spokeswoman for the 82nd airborne who said that 32:44.100 --> 32:50.720 at least 5000 from her division would be sent so it's even more in fact lieutenant general 32:50.720 --> 32:56.800 steven blum chief of the national guard bureau was quoted as saying they would send 10 000 more 32:56.800 --> 33:03.740 previously unplanned national guard bringing the total up to 40 000 so they sent 40 000 national 33:03.740 --> 33:10.500 guard and many more army units marine units they the point i'm trying to make is they sent so 33:10.500 --> 33:17.160 many military to assist after katrina to those areas newspapers like the miami herald 33:17.160 --> 33:24.240 running headlines storm deployments prompt fears of strained forces as if they were sending so many 33:24.240 --> 33:30.760 people because there's a war in the middle east going on at the time of this so that's how many 33:30.760 --> 33:39.060 right that's how many were sent now why don't you compare that response to the response of 33:40.020 --> 33:47.140 6500 national guard members and a thousand active duty troops why don't you compare that to the fact 33:47.140 --> 33:55.700 that this storm hit that area friday september 27th it hit that area on sunday september 29th 33:55.700 --> 34:03.000 north carolina governor ray cooper was quoted at a press conference as saying more than 500 north 34:03.000 --> 34:07.980 carolina national guard members are now working alongside local emergency responders 34:08.480 --> 34:15.080 conducting search and rescue missions delivering needed supplies and working to restore infrastructure 34:15.080 --> 34:21.500 more than 500 north carolina national guard has increased to over 500 soldiers and airmen 34:22.040 --> 34:29.780 and over 200 vehicles meanwhile right next door in tennessee which was also greatly impacted 34:30.380 --> 34:36.400 they just sent more than 700 national guard to the middle east that their their own are 34:36.400 --> 34:42.920 drowning and you deployed troops took a wait like what is going on see the problem here this is a 34:42.920 --> 34:50.160 horrifying disaster it's now being called the second worst hurricane to hit since katrina 34:50.880 --> 34:57.700 and they didn't just send them to the middle east they did it after the storm hit they deployed 34:57.700 --> 35:05.500 on saturday this storm hit on friday this is shameful this is absolutely shameful they're 35:05.500 --> 35:11.100 reporting now nearly a thousand active duty troops nearly a thousand i thought it was a thousand 35:11.100 --> 35:22.300 are joining 6500 national guard members from 15 states 6500 so you've got maybe 7500 there were 35:22.300 --> 35:31.820 25 000 guard and active duty already on standby before katrina ever hit land that was what was 35:31.820 --> 35:36.600 being reported at the time and that's hurricane katrina which is again has gone down in history 35:36.600 --> 35:42.440 is one of the most botched worst responses to a natural disaster that ever occurred but they did 35:42.440 --> 35:47.640 that much they haven't done hard like what are they doing with this and if you're thinking it's 35:47.640 --> 35:52.260 because new orleans had more people at the time there was under a million people in new orleans 35:52.260 --> 35:58.580 in 2005 population western north carolina by contrast the 23 most commonly associated counties 35:58.580 --> 36:04.820 in the 2020 census had it well over a million people so there's a lot of people just in western 36:04.820 --> 36:10.640 north carolina alone and you have to remember eastern tennessee also very much affected south 36:10.640 --> 36:14.960 carolina also affected georgia florida all these other places have also been affected but this 36:14.960 --> 36:19.160 particular area where these people are still trapped in everything there's a huge amount of 36:19.160 --> 36:24.040 people living in those areas it's just they're spread out in this mountainous area but there's 36:24.040 --> 36:30.120 a lot of people there so this is 11 percent of north carolina's total population is living in that 36:30.120 --> 36:39.560 area and biden just now october 2nd is saying he will approve a thousand troops so right after their 36:39.560 --> 36:45.180 family members get put through this and they join the national guard probably i don't know i'm just 36:45.180 --> 36:51.840 guessing to protect to step up and be able to protect their family and neighbors and friends 36:51.840 --> 36:56.240 and communities and state if something like this were to happen now they're being sent on the other 36:56.240 --> 37:00.940 side of the world i guess to protect foreign countries not obviously not their own people in 37:00.940 --> 37:05.260 their own country which is not what the national guard by the way was created to do ever that is 37:05.260 --> 37:10.900 supposed to be our militia that's not created to be sent overseas to fight foreign banker wars 37:10.900 --> 37:15.940 in other places that is not what that is for and everybody knows it except for the people 37:15.940 --> 37:22.040 who are running things in the most corrupt ways possible joe this is insanity 37:23.600 --> 37:31.280 do you see the difference here something is not at all adding up here in any way like i said 37:31.280 --> 37:37.740 there are literally people still in floods right now that cannot get out um there are people that 37:37.740 --> 37:43.820 the people that did survive they are in shock they are traumatized they watch their family members 37:43.820 --> 37:50.140 they watch their neighbors die we need help desperately and people are very angry so you're 37:50.140 --> 37:58.920 just gonna give billions what's just given to ukraine but he can't help us here in north carolina 37:58.920 --> 38:05.420 i'm proud to announce a new 2.4 billion dollar package of security systems are there any more 38:05.420 --> 38:10.000 resources the federal government could be giving them no we've given them we have three plans 38:10.000 --> 38:14.780 a significant amount of it they didn't know they didn't ask for it because it seems like this 38:14.780 --> 38:20.960 government has resources for everywhere else on earth right now except for its own people 38:20.960 --> 38:26.340 we have mayorkas now coming out saying fema doesn't have enough funds for the rest of 38:26.340 --> 38:30.460 the hurricane season now quote we are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we 38:30.460 --> 38:35.060 have we are expecting another hurricane hitting fema does not have the funds to make it 38:35.060 --> 38:40.440 through the season and then right on cue because i guess they're letting her pretend to be the president 38:40.440 --> 38:49.480 now kamala harris comes out yesterday and says people affected by this will get a 750 dollar 38:49.480 --> 38:56.840 check and the federal relief and assistance that we have been providing has included fema 38:56.840 --> 39:03.740 providing 750 dollars for folks who need immediate needs being met meanwhile i guess the people 39:03.740 --> 39:14.480 in the hania are like where's my 50 bucks i mean this is 2024 money it's insulting it's insane what got 39:14.480 --> 39:20.380 me fired up about this was yesterday me and my team did the rescue of that 11-day-year-old baby 39:20.380 --> 39:25.420 all these government officials and social media they're showing that video that pictures and video 39:25.420 --> 39:32.120 of that rescue and claiming that like they have some like government helped with that even 39:32.120 --> 39:36.760 usa i think it was usa today wrote an article about it saying it was a florida national guard 39:36.760 --> 39:43.920 that went and got it like with a helicopter no it was me my buddy charlie and a civilian named zeb 39:43.920 --> 39:48.660 with his own personal helicopter at a Wilmington north carolina like without that civilian that 39:48.660 --> 39:52.940 baby would be dead and the old lady we went rescued after that she'd be dead too because 39:52.940 --> 39:58.020 she had one day left of oxygen let's recap not to read between this lady's lines or anything 39:58.020 --> 40:03.500 but it's not like she's veiling what she's saying all that hard she's straight saying they can't go in 40:03.500 --> 40:09.300 because they haven't been given the clearance to do so and everything in the military requires 40:09.300 --> 40:13.940 orders first before you can just do anything you can't just active your own accord trying to 40:13.940 --> 40:18.600 level with you you're only doing what we're allowed to do and what we're told to do we cannot 40:18.600 --> 40:23.310 do anything other than that they're not gonna let us go on foot they're not going to i don't 40:23.310 --> 40:29.810 know why they're just listen and then she's letting everyone know very specifically how many 40:29.810 --> 40:35.170 days it takes for somebody to die without water it's been a couple of days people were without 40:35.170 --> 40:38.950 food and without water i think you can only go two days without water and that is if you were 40:38.950 --> 40:43.630 healthy not if you're a child not if you're an old lady or old person keep that in account 40:44.870 --> 40:50.010 add that together this is very simple math she's laying out here add that together 40:50.010 --> 40:57.030 with how many days after this thing happened it took for our president to finally sign off on an 40:57.030 --> 41:05.770 order to send a thousand troops to activate a thousand troops and like whatever sixty five 41:05.770 --> 41:14.010 hundred guard so you're telling me that for Hurricane Katrina they had coast guard preposition 41:14.010 --> 41:21.830 they had 82nd airborne out there which is trained to deploy anywhere in the world within 18 hours to 41:21.830 --> 41:29.010 make it anywhere on earth in less than a day it's right there in the state because it comes from 41:29.690 --> 41:35.590 base in the state not letting them deploy military helicopters sitting all around on 41:35.590 --> 41:41.730 the ground not letting them go up in the air for five days that's what we're saying right now 41:41.730 --> 41:48.010 to an area geographically that has well over a million people in it and these counties have 41:48.010 --> 41:53.290 been decimated some of them are still underwater there's mudslides still happening people are 41:53.290 --> 41:58.250 trapped roads are gone bridges are gone and you're telling me i mean do this math just do 41:58.250 --> 42:04.570 everyone do the math right now you can't really arrive at any other conclusion can you it's 42:04.570 --> 42:11.970 horrible this is horrifying it really is it's really horrifying we know it's public we know all 42:11.970 --> 42:16.030 the money that was just sent to Ukraine are you kidding me how much money is it going to take 42:16.030 --> 42:20.930 to rebuild these mountains and there's there's no there's no amount of money that you can put 42:20.930 --> 42:26.390 on these people's lives like what is going on i don't understand this is not incompetence 42:26.390 --> 42:32.510 okay incompetence suggests that somebody's just too stupid i do not believe at this point 42:32.510 --> 42:38.410 after everything that i have seen researching for this and watching hours of video of people 42:38.410 --> 42:45.410 talking about what's going on and i i do not believe that it is physically or mentally 42:45.410 --> 42:52.830 possible for any anyone to be this incompetent this is not incompetence this is something else 42:52.830 --> 43:01.030 i posted something earlier today on x because i was trying to put together a list of of resources 43:01.030 --> 43:07.890 that will actually if you donate and you want to help people out in the affected areas these resources 43:07.890 --> 43:15.490 will actually get to people on the ground because there's a lot of fishy bullshit that's going on 43:15.490 --> 43:22.410 i did post this and i asked people if if you've got a source that's actually a good 43:22.410 --> 43:27.730 source that's helping people right now where the donation will make a difference please post 43:27.730 --> 43:32.890 that basically because i want to give people you know good legitimate sources where if they 43:32.890 --> 43:38.950 give them the money it's not just some bs that's going to go to like fees and and you know salaries 43:38.950 --> 43:43.910 of people and things like that and not actually just go help people on the actual ground and 43:43.910 --> 43:49.350 so these are the ones that people overwhelmingly said we're helping people and we're good and 43:49.350 --> 43:55.650 the first one that everyone that that was mentioned by multiple people is samaritan's purse 43:55.650 --> 44:01.890 which is a christian organization out of boon north carolina and they've been sending out trucks 44:02.450 --> 44:07.890 filled with supplies disaster relief they've gone to florida they've gone to georgia they're 44:07.890 --> 44:13.250 obviously helping in north carolina too and so they have a donation thing set up on their 44:13.250 --> 44:19.010 website where people can give money there's also a place where people can sign up to volunteer 44:19.010 --> 44:24.550 the second group that was mentioned consistently is the united cajun navy 44:25.250 --> 44:30.550 that were mentioned multiple times this group is flying in there they're doing search and rescue 44:30.550 --> 44:34.850 they're also transporting oxygen and insulin they're bringing starlings to hospitals 44:35.570 --> 44:40.630 all kinds of stuff that they're doing and so they have a page set up here where you can 44:40.630 --> 44:45.670 donate for that there's also grindstone ministries which was mentioned multiple times 44:45.670 --> 44:52.850 there's a page set up for them to donate there's also the yall squad mentioned multiple times what 44:52.850 --> 44:56.770 is going on guys kaleb beacham here operations director for the yall squad i'm currently back 44:56.770 --> 45:01.670 in central iowa after delivering our first of possibly many loads down to eastern tennessee 45:01.670 --> 45:06.950 and western north carolina um on that truck we had shovels rakes chainsaws brooms mops 45:06.950 --> 45:12.150 toiletry is really anything you think we could need right after a disaster we brought it there's 45:12.150 --> 45:17.830 also the 118th they've got people on the ground they're in multiple states they're doing stuff they 45:17.830 --> 45:24.710 have a gifts and go that they've set up operation airdrop which is volunteer pilots that are flying 45:24.710 --> 45:30.770 things into places where the roads have been washed out and then finally mountain mule packer ranch 45:30.770 --> 45:36.290 was also mentioned they've got mules and they're loading equipment onto mules and walking it in 45:36.290 --> 45:41.690 that way because again like i said can't get in there with the roads the way they are i 45:41.690 --> 45:49.130 mean they're there's like in some areas there's only one road and it's iffy and so they're they're 45:49.130 --> 45:55.390 trying to get supplies in there any way they can so those are the those are the main resources 45:55.390 --> 46:01.450 that people mentioned if you want to donate to try to help out all right so i'm cutting in here 46:01.450 --> 46:05.710 i'm going to go ahead and put this up as part one and this is going to be to be continued 46:05.710 --> 46:13.090 because we have a whole other side of what's going on that you guys need to see but i need to go ahead 46:13.090 --> 46:18.430 and get what i have up now so this information can get out i'm actually kind of getting swamped 46:18.430 --> 46:22.310 over here we're both getting kind of swamped over here with stuff so i just want to go 46:22.310 --> 46:27.370 ahead and put up what i have so far and then erin's been in the background researching a 46:27.370 --> 46:32.650 whole other aspect an angle to this that i think is very important for everyone to consider 46:33.430 --> 46:41.450 also there's a lot of conspiracies going around that i don't i think should be taken with a grain 46:41.450 --> 46:46.610 of salt until receipts can be shown because there's some people making some pretty tall 46:46.610 --> 46:50.830 claims without a whole lot of evidence and people are just taking it at face value and i'm 46:50.830 --> 46:56.850 i'm really not sure that's helpful right now when you consider the levels of pain and heartbreak 46:56.850 --> 47:01.750 and devastation that are on this ground we do not need to be making stuff up it's already 47:01.750 --> 47:09.710 bad enough as it is so we have true stream media dot com up if people want to contact us to send 47:10.270 --> 47:16.490 you know pictures video information whatever you you need we've got our contact information up 47:16.490 --> 47:23.690 there my dms are open on x and i will put that whole list of links below and this is to be 47:23.690 --> 47:30.310 continued i love you guys stay safe out there hug your loved ones because you just you really 47:30.310 --> 47:32.890 you never know you just never know