Wall Street on Parade | October 3, 2024
As desperate and traumatized residents of Western North Carolina have learned over the past week, everything Americans thought they knew about storm threats must now be reexamined. Some Western North Carolina counties located 485 miles north of where Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on September 26 in Florida’s Big Bend area have reported more deaths than the entire state of Florida. At yesterday’s press briefing in Buncombe County, North Carolina, Sheriff Quentin Miller reported that the death toll for his county from Hurricane Helene had reached 61; that’s four times the 14 Hurricane Helene-related deaths that the state of Florida is reporting. As of this morning, total deaths reported in all states impacted by Hurricane Helene is 190, making it the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. After wiping out communities on (***)
I live in a solidly red part of the US: north Idaho. These weather-weapon hurricanes have led me to speculate on how our “Government” might go about doing to this area what they did in Hawaii and North Carolina. Hurricanes and nor’easters won’t work. Maybe extreme summer heat. Don’t think a tornado will work either: there hasn’t even been a thunderstorm worth the name in all the years I’ve lived here. More likely extended below zero temperatures and heavy snowfall and accumulation and then power failure that lasts long enough for the plumbing to freeze. Or maybe they could even arrange for Mt Saint Helens to blow again.
Government of the People, by the People, for the People … my bunioned left foot!!!
As someone who has been through 3 acts of manufactured weather terrorism: 2 hurricanes and a tornado, I figure we’ve got forest fire on our roster next.