A Helicopter Pilot's Rescue of a Couple Shows Everything Wrong With the Government's Response to Helene

This story out of Lake Lure, North Carolina...is infuriating. Now magnify it by 10... - Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

This story out of Lake Lure, North Carolina, which my colleague Brandon Morse briefly mentioned, is infuriating. 

Now magnify it by 10, and you get an even more potent idea of the people still suffering and the lives lost because of the disconnect between local and federal officials who are tasked (and paid) to help those ravaged by Hurricane Helene and the people who are actually doing the real work...

When Jordan Seidhom woke up Saturday morning, he saw a Facebook post that tens of thousands of people were commenting on and sharing. A family was stranded on a mountain in Banner Elk, North Carolina.

They ran out of water a day earlier and just enough food to last less than two days.

Seidhom, the former head of the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office narcotics unit, knows a thing or two about finding people. He researched the mountain chain where the family was located and found a place to land on his mapping software...

Here's another amazing example of FEMA's feckless response to this natural disaster and its aftermath. They are sending out social media posts asking people to quell "rumors" that they are not responding and that they are not forcing local officials to shut down civilian response...