What's up everyone. This is Fringe News, episode twenty nine. Mick M's over there. I am hello. There's probably going to be kind of a short one whereas popping in because we have time and we better do it because sometimes the time doesn't. Or we get sick. Yeah, people get sick around here lately. But we're gonna knock this out and hopefully. I mean, there is a lot going on with the fires out in California. There is so much food bar situations that could have been in, a lot of programs that were slashed, and a lot of you know, the lady that made seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year is whatever the highest paid Los Angeles County employee, Well she had to do is make sure the hydrants were filled. Evidently they are tank systems, reservoirs. Yeah, a lot of them had no water. Yeah, and all you know, from Gavin Newsom to the mayor La the Mayor's there's just so much incompetency. I don't know where to begin right now until we kind of, I guess, get to stand back and analyze a lot of this because we just just it just keep strickling out every day. It and we know when you build something in what is pretty much a desert I guess, very arid climate, and then you bring soil in and you bring water into it, and you create conditions which create mud slides. When the storms come in, it rains too hard. Houses are going down the hillside, the mountain side, whatever you call it. Never been there. But and you're trying to plan all these all this vegetation for these homes, you know, all your landscaping. Yeah, because they're bringing soil and water in constantly. Yeah, their landscaping should probably be more like, yeah, like Las Vegas, right because they you look out there and they don't have grass, They just have like gravel, Yeah, ds like that. That's probably what you would see more in California if it was the like you said, if it was a natural environment rather than the man made to look like. Yeah, I mean, and look at they had water wars right back in the twenties or something. And you look at if you're a film buff, you know you like some good films. Not the Two Jakes, but the predecessor, which was Chinatown. I think that was if I remember correctly. It's been a while. I should rewatch it because it's a classic. It's a little creepy, but a little skivie, but it's just around the corruption of stealing water. Yeah, it was. It's pretty crazy and pretty accurate. But we're not gonna spend too, you know, too much more time on that. Prayers to all those folks out there, you know. And there's a lot of people in appal Asha getting very upset. I mean, there's so you know, we're gonna we're gonna hit this. This is over at zero Hedge and this is a message to all Americans from storm ravaged western North Carolina. That's from two thirty five Eastern Today, released today by Tyler Dirden. And we'll start it. We're gonna have some audio, so bear with me as I switch back and forth, because that's how I'm doing it today. Jason Ward the Valley Strong Relief with Valley Strong Relief, it's a nonprofit organization focused on providing aid to thousands of residents displaced in western North Carolina by Hurricane Helene. So he released a TikTok video discussing the horrors of the Palisades fire raging in Los Angeles County. However, he asked one crucial question what about Appalachia? Ward cited President Joe Biden's recent ex post, and this is the post he went ahead and threw up there on an x the federal government will cover one hundred percent of the cost of measures to protect lives and property in southern California for six months. Now. Referring to this post, Ward said, I hope that happened. Ward then segues to the topic of forgotten and devastated western North Carolina, asking what about Appalasia. We are one hundred and five days in since one of the most devastating storms. Let me see this might be it right here? Bear with me, guys. Today is January tenth, twenty twenty five. I'm going to start this video out by saying that we're praying for California. We've had several people make the trip across coast to come volunteer here with us with Valley Strong disaster relief. I'll be the very first to admit that before September twenty seventh, I would see a natural disaster and I would thank all that that sucks. Then I would go on about my life. That's because I'd never been affected by it. My mindset has completely changed since Hurricane Helene, and I'll spend the rest of my life being involved in some sort of storm relief and trying to pay back the hearts of the volunteers and to help the victims. This morning, I saw a post made by the Leader of the Free World. He said that he was announcing that the federal government would cover one hundred percent of the cost of measures to protect the lives and property in southern California for the next six months. He told the governor and officials to spare no expense and do whatever they need to contain the fires and protect families. I hope that happens. I wouldn't wish what. Happened here on anybody, not even my worst enemy. What about Appalachia. We are one hundred and five days in since one of the most devastating storms and known to mankind. We are still supplying our own campers in shelters while paying mortgages on piles of rubble. We are still running our own supply hubs with Phase one items to many people that lost everything, including their homes and their jobs. We still have bridges out. Only four percent of the debris has been picked up. You heard that right, four percent. Many businesses are bankrupt with insurance denigning their claim. We have a polar vortec slam in western North Carolina while people are going through ten gallons of pro paine to night, wondering where they're going to get their next tank. Every single thing that we the people have done for a leaf effort so far has been nothing but a mere band aid to stabilize our communities until proper help arrives. So, with all that being said, I hope LA does get fixed. In the meantime, we'll be right here fighting for each other. But when you're done there, don't forget about the backbone of America. Don't forget about Appalacia. Our taxes are paid to. Now. He picked up a dead deer carcass and lifted at a spine. Excuse me, yeah, and showed showed the camera. Mmmm. It's uh, it's. Terrible, like you know, why would they get so much California get so much aid? Six months of coverage and they get nothing, you know. So, while the nation's eyes are on the Palisade fires, thousands of families are homeless, either spending cold nights and makeshift shelters, campers, tents, or if they're lucky. Hotels and motels paid by for FEMA, And there's going to be more about that here in a second. And I'm looking at like tents and pop up trailers, the hybrids, you know, with the canvas and just. Yeah. However, Fox reported Fox News, FEMA began notifying some families checked into hotel or motel rooms that they are no longer eligible for the program due to one of the following reasons. An inspection indicated their home is now habitable, they declined in an inspection, or FEMA has been unable to contact them to update. Their housing needs. Here we go. This is from Julie McBain on. It's from Matt van Swall. Let's go ahead and take a listen to this. That's going right to X. They're with me. From western North Carolina. I guess we're out here again begging FEMA to extend hotel vouchers. I feel like, are we doing this every other day now? Where we just beg FEMA to actually give us some help. There are three five hundred families currently in hotels that FIMA thankfully extended. Just for twenty four hours. That's nice. But if FEMA does not extend those hotel vouchers today. They have to be out tomorrow morning. In this it is seventeen degrees outside, snowing though. The roads are frozen over. A lot of these families don't even have cars, but the ones that do are gonna go sleep in those. We are intake form for Operation Shelter tripled overnight. Aaron sent out a ton of text to people asking for help. This is insane. I cannot believe we're out here yet another day, just begging FEMA. To help us. And it's uh, it's pretty terrible. I mean the guys standing amongst debris devastation which is still there from the storms. How many months ago? Yeah, I said one hundred days. In over one hundred year and six months or whatever? Is that what that is now? That's one hundred days would be like three, yeah, but that's surprising. Only four percent of the debris has been cleared away. Oh it's three months. They don't. Some of these, like we reported, there were a lot of people on horse back bringing supplies in because roads were gone. Yeah, they had to go across streams and small fords and you know, rivers or whatever to get supplies to people. Because they could not get in or out. They were totally stranded. And when this first happened, it was still warm enough outside, so sleeping in a tent might have been tolerable. Not to say it's enjoyable for long periods of time. You know, it's better than nothing, better than nothing. But now it's sixteen what do you say, seventeen degrees? Yeah, it's snow. There's snow. When I'll have links to this and you guys will be able to check out the article in all the pictures and the photos and the video. Local media outlet WLOS reported that more than five six hundred households were staying in hotel or motel rooms paid by FEMA as of one week ago. So this is from RP. It's just a photo of like a bike with a tent next to it. Please don't forget WNC. We aren't rich and most of us aren't movie stars, but our people deserve better than this. So California is getting all the federal assistance it needs. But meanwhile, the people of North Carolina are awaiting in long lines for propane just so they can have some warmth in they're donated RVs. They're currently living in this isn't right. One X user said, now you guys can watch this just from Washington's ghost on X. California is getting okay, I already said that, But. There is. A video of a family passing just three miles plus lines in both directions to go to a propane refilling station. Propane, you know, tank filling stations so they can keep warm tonight, Like that guy said, they're using that's a lot, but ten gallons just to keep warm overnight. That seems a bit. But what do I know. I don't know if these are intense. You know, I don't know. I don't know. And they're using it the cook too. I have no idea. So Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn retired, everybody knows about that guy. So he provides more color on the private supply hubs helping thousands of families across storm devastated regions. And I probably should play this so we get more information out. Bear with me, here we go if I can. That's all right, that's all right. I'm General Mike Flynn, and I'm here at Avery County Airfield, and I'm with Dan Nunez. And Dan basically has taken on an extraordinary leadership role in what I would consider one of the most monumental heroic type tasks that I've ever experienced. And I've been all my years of humanitarian assistant operations combat operations around the world. But you see behind me is a small component of that. And this is a This is a large hangar on Avery County Airfield and it kind of stretches all the way down and Dan's running the operation here with from a volunteer. So, Dan, what caused you to you know what called? First of all, you you live right up the road here, Yes, sir, so we live about about five. Ten miles from here, and then we moved over here about four and a half years ago. And when the disaster hit, I know we we were lucky. Enough to have a generator. However, when it came out intel propane, so I got to see were full effects of the storm. Like everybody else. That took us about three and a half days to. Cut our way off our heeltop with our local neighbors. So the first thing we did is ran out got supplies to kind of help out. And then as supplies were running, loan or push them out there. Other vistro centers. We came back and there's a crew here bringing in aircraft and they didn't know exactly how to handle the land. And also I took charge and told them, hey, I'll handle it. You bring them in and we'll get going. And it's from then on now it's been nothing but volunteers coming in and pushing supplies. We started out long pout of water. Now we're at this court, full hanger, three tractor trailers that were able to use for storage, and now we have four twenty foot Milli vans. We're able to use for storage. We're trying to get it to where the people can last the winter. We're not doing weeks at time, We're doing months at a time. I mean, so you need more volunteer help. Actually, we need more volunteers. Thirty a day would be great. And then we need support from the communities out there. There's still people in need out here. We need can goods. We're good on water for right now, but in the next couple of weeks we're gonna start to need water. Dan The big thing is can goods, no divers or everything like that. We have a full list of priority needs. It's more survivability sustainability stuff, you know, eaters. When I when I got here yesterday, So I arrived early yesterday afternoon, and where we're standing and cars will. Start rolling in here. In a minute. We had probably about fifty cars, and people just give their lists, and these guys go and get the you know, the fact they're give them as much as they can to help them out. And then these folks go back out to their homes. And what I saw yesterday is actually a desperate situation. It's really really bad. I mean, it's it's hard to describe. But just one other thing on Dan. It's Dan and his wife Paula, and they have two children here, fourteen year old and a thirteen year old. I just messing around with the kids in the back, and I mean this is like, you know, talk about just extraordinary American spirit and stepping into the stepping into the fire here. So I appreciate everything that you're doing. Dan. What else, what else for people that you need that you you know, you'd like to see. I mean, you have a I know your your your wife. Is setting up a way to provide donations, monetary donations in here. We're going to try to help them out with that a little bit, but what else kinds of things other than the volunteers. So the volunteers, we of course we need twenty pound pro paying tanks, so the last longer buddy heaters the dacter cores. To go from the one pound to the twenty pounds. We need sleeping bags, newer blankets or something like that to keep them warmth in wintertime. It's not the emergency type. Stuff right now, where you know the immediate thing is to go ahead and dump your closet and send it on out or past that stage. Now it's more of that long term sustainability. So we're trying to plus up with alreaty havel And the big thing is we usually ask for newer stuff is because there's a lot of people with infasima. Or allergy and everything like that. So if we have the newer things, we don't have to really go through the whole process. And making sure the dog checks up for everything. Before we go get them sneaking bag and they're allergic to dog here or something as simple as that. So we could use all that and then can goods is a big thing right now as well. We're looking for field donations to. Run the generators five W thirty oil for the generators themselves so they don't burn out. We've had that issue as well. They're running generators not check be able to change the oil or increase the oil, and it turns out their generator. And then we're also looking at chainsaw bars and chainsaw blades rather than giving out whole chainsaws because that's really what they need. They're burning out their their items so that we need to replace those and everything else. And then of course, like you said, my wife is trying to set up some sort of go fun me or anything like that for monetary stuff for big items that we need to argue and understainability for us. Yeah. So I mean this is a husband and a wife who actually. Were in their home with their children when the storm came through, and you know, and God saved them and then all of a sudden they show. Up here and they're literally they live right down the road in one of these hollers. So anyway, God blessed, thank you for all that you're doing, and we will continue to get the. Word out and you know what you're doing on here, So thank you for that ersure. So thank you. So yeah, that was actually the video of us from back well over a month ago, and this is from General Mike Flynn, and he wants folks to please repost attack at real Donald Trump and JD. Vance So. Biden and my Orcus bankrupted FEMA to pay for a legal immigrant housing and now American citizens who lost their homes in the hurricane Hurricane Helena, Helene whatever Helene or essentially being told to screw off now Trump, that's Trump spokesman woman excuse me an incoming White House Press Secretary Caroline Olivia Lovett. She added, this is unfair and arguably criminal. It is, it actually is. The good news is President Trump will be back very soon to. Put Americans first again. Yeah. Well, you know a lot of us no one's really reporting on this anymore. It's left the mainstream media's news cycle. It's not important. Maybe there's just not enough votes, you know, coming out of that area, like there is out of the Los Angeles area, California. I think they have like fifty five Electoral College votes or points. I mean, regardless, these are Americans. I'm somewhat ashamed again that have not you know, you just think if you're not hearing it in the news cycle, that we must have taken care of it, like all the other natural disasters. We seem to take care of things, but you know, FEMA's depleted. Here we are, and you know, M's really not with me right now. We went ahead and heavily edited the rest of the episode from last night. I'm because it was a lot of it was split between California, you know, fires, and I think we were just really disappointed and a little angry, you know, covering the North North Carolina story. So I just axed that and we're gonna take the fires on here tonight. We're gonna pop out an episode because there's a lot of hanky stuff going on there with their leadership, and I kind of went on some rants last night and I really wanted to just focus on Western North Carolina and get this out. You know, there's we're gonna update with more ways you can help these people, not this next episode, but we're gonna do some digging. But we do have cabins for Christ and this is an organization out of Virginia, I believe, and they take volunteers. You know, guys started it. I'm gonna put a link to that, and they're building small cabins that have I guess solar, a heater, you know, things that are essential to get you through the winner, and are getting them up there. They're building like eight x twelve or some than I mean, just the basics because these people, a lot of them are living in RVs that have been donated FEMA. They say they're there to help, but either people are ineligible because their home is livable by their standards, you know, or they can't find the people. Well, they can't find the damn people because they're scattered. You know, they don't have a mailing address, they don't have an address anymore, man. So it just sounds like a lot of excuses. They have FEMA trailers out there not being used, and they closed over the weekend. You know, I guess they're back open today. I do not know this yet, but there's a lot, a lot of stuff, you know, going on down there that is just really chapping my ass. And I'm ashamed that I haven't followed up on this and that we haven't heard more. Another place you can go, and again that's cabins for christ with the number four in the Middle Valley Strong Disaster Relief dot Org. You know, you can you can get on there and you can volunteer time. You can volunteer, you know, either of these. They will accept your time. If you can volunteer, help throw some walls up, you know, screwing some screws, you know, smack in some nails. I'm sure they will take any in all donations if it's useful and you know, apply to the situation, you know, the situation. They won't take used sleeping bags things like that, and for obvious reasons, you know, But any way you can help. We're looking into it a little more again Valley Strong Disaster Relief dot org. And you heard a couple of their spokespeople from x Boone Cutler and Matt van Swall, you know, and they just these people are doing the good work man, and they do it every day ever since their communities were destroyed, and they have not received they've received little to no help. Most of the help they've received they're from people like me and you. Quite honestly, the government has not. They've barely they've done I don't even think they've done anywhere near. It's just a complete failure in a food bar situation. So trying not to get too emotional again, I'm going to cut it here. Hopefully we can update everyone with some other I know, good Samaritans. I can't remember what they what that site is. I'll get that. I guess they do great work, probably Salvation Army. I don't know about anything else, so I'm not gonna recommend it. Don't particularly care for you know, high priced CEOs and you know operating officers and chief financial officers and these people making millions of dollars a year like some of these big, big nonprofits, right, I don't really trust that that model. So all right, we're out of here. God bless hang in there in North Carolina. We're going to cover California fires here next episode. We'll keep you updated. Thanks. Name name A Names dadd
