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NC National Guard Helicopter Rotor Washes Relief Distribution Site for Hurricane Helene

BY Herschel Smith
3 months ago

I usually try to wait for confirmation on things like this, but the confirmation surely did come. With personnel wearing head cover, in fact. The only reason you cover your face in a situation like this is shame.

The government shipped up 3 pallets of electric chainsaws to us in a community without power

BY Herschel Smith
3 months ago

Tulsi Gabbard says that FEMA has a “major bureaucracy problem.” No ma’am. Your proclivities and inclinations are still way off.

FEMA is a bureaucracy.  That is its problem. It shouldn’t exist, any more than the department of education should exist. There is no constitutional mandate for such things.

Helping the Hurricane Helene Victims

BY Herschel Smith
3 months ago

It’s all very difficult. I would be in the mountains helping if I could. It makes no sense to me if the FedGov or local government claims that they’re better off without help like I could offer. I would be willing to strap on a backpack and hike up a mountain 15 miles to determine if someone’s parents were still alive, or carry medicine to them. And I would fully indemnify all parties in the case of my demise.

I think that only an idiot would say that I’m not welcome. But merely volunteering just doesn’t do it.

If you’re not on government orders, you’re not going in here. Period.

If you’re a member of a group like this, it seems to be easier. That is, if you could bring bad publicity for being shut down by FEMA, they seem to leave you alone.

SWANNANOA, North Carolina — Hundreds of special operations personnel in North Carolina have formed their own homegrown rescue and supply operation in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene after they grew tired of waiting for the federal government to get its act together.

The Post found an all-volunteer operation being run out of a Harley-Davidson dealership with ruthless efficiency and military precision.

“Who’s FEMA?” ex-Green Beret Adam Smith derisively responded when asked about the agency’s presence on the ground …

“This disaster has definitively proven without a shadow of a doubt FEMA’s incompetence and incapability,” he said, noting that the agency didn’t even show up until Thursday — almost a week after the storm that has killed at least 232, nearly half of them in the mountainous west of the Tar Heel State.

I’m not sure if it’s incompetence and incapability or intentional.

This Harley-Davidson dealership has become a forward operating base, complete with a fleet of 35 helicopters that have flown hundreds of rescue, reconnaissance and resupply sorties.

Organizers are calling the effort the “Savage Freedoms Relief Operation,” but Smith says they’ve proudly adopted the alternate moniker — “the Redneck Air Force.”

The dealership teems with current and former soldiers decked out in camo pants and army boots with handguns strapped to their chests and hips. Crop duster pilots, helicopter tour guides and special operations pilots — most of them off-duty or retired military — have answered the call from Smith and others in North Carolina’s extensive military community.

They’re using their own aircraft to fly doctors, medicine, generators, fuel and food to isolated residents cut off from the world by the unprecedented floods to washed out mountain roads and wiped entire towns off the map.

Supplies and fuel for an operation of this magnitude don’t come cheap, but the group has relied entirely on donations, including around $190,000 raised through a GoFundMe page, Smith said.

[ … ]

Now that the effort has taken on a life of its own, Smith and others leading the operation have gone from cursing FEMA for its absence to hoping they never come back.

Smith said he fears their carefully calibrated rescue mission will be bogged down with governmental red tape if the feds show up.

“Nobody out here wants the federal agencies to come in. FEMA has walked into operations centers like this and has attempted to just take over and tell them what they’re doing is illegal and they’re not allowed to keep going. I’ve seen it firsthand in this area,” Smith told The Post.

“My biggest fear is they’ll move into the area and in the process they’ll reinvent the wheel and rebuild the entire process.”

Yeah, I’ve heard other curse FEMA as a result of this as well. I don’t blame them.

If I can help in any way, please let me know. I’ve donated $$$, but it was probably all confiscated by FEMA for use by illegal aliens. Or spent on Covid. You read that right. Covid.

KUIU Mountain Star Tent

BY Herschel Smith
3 months ago

F&S.

The KUIU Mountain Star was one of the lightest tents in my test, thanks to carbon-fiber trekking poles from Easton. The poles feel like they’re made out of arrow shafts, and they seem strong enough for the job. That said, if I planned on using this tent long-term, I’d take extra care with assembly and takedown.

I’ve recommended that you stop purchasing Patagonia and North Face gear and apparel.

The hunting gear and apparel manufacturers, on the other hand, know what’s what. One bad review of a product can send it into the tank. There are so many hunter forums and discussion threads on various topics that you wouldn’t be able to read them all in a lifetime. But the well-visited sites have so much power over the hunting gear and apparel manufacturers that virtual instantaneous changes have been made because of complaints.

Their gear works, or it gets phased out very quickly in favor of something that does. They invest magnificent amounts of money into research of relevant topics. For example, how do we know that deer can’t distinguish between red and orange versus grey? And that they see blue very well, so that all blue threading and dyes must be removed from deer hunting apparel? We know it because Sitka sponsored a student doing a PhD at the University of Georgia to study that very thing.

Their GoreTex fabric works, and you can get one, two or three layer fabric (the three layer being just right for awful conditions). You know those hunting shirts that use silver to do built-in odor management for your hunts? I have several. They really work.

Do you want similar apparel without the camouflage patterns? They all have that too. Do you want backpacks? There are so many that it would take weeks to go through them all – or go to Mystery Ranch and get one, or one of the many makers of tactical packpacks (like TRU-SPEC, Condor, 5.11, etc., etc.). I have a TRU-SPEC and it works great.

So if the KUIU Mountain Star tent is light and good looking, does it perform well or does it leak? The Outdoor Gear Review gives it a thumbs up, and he’s picky about his tent reviews. You have to fast forward to 32:30.

Full disclosure. I am being paid nothing to write this post about the KUIU Mountain Star tent, and KUIU has no idea who I am.

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Slow Walking and Impeding Rescue and Recovery After Hurricane Helene

BY Herschel Smith
3 months ago

Donald Trump made a visit to N.C. The awful Charlotte Observer had the temerity to criticize him after the visit.

He’d go further in an interview with Kellyanne Conway, one of his most ardent truth-twisters on cable TV before she was largely exiled from the networks, accusing Harris of trying to “hurt” western North Carolina residents.

On Saturday, Trump’s claims provoked a response from one of the state’s most widely-read newspapers, the Charlotte Observer. The Observer’s editorial board slammed the ex-president for his lies about the federal response to Helene, which is believed to have killed more than 100 across the state.

“This is not a situation to capitalize on for political gain. But former President Donald Trump has politicized the situation at every turn, spreading falsehoods and conspiracies that fracture the community instead of bringing it together,” read the newspaper’s editorial.

“There’s no evidence to support any of those ridiculous claims. And by every indication, state and federal agencies have been working to help people in need,” it continued.

Now that you’ve read the trash that is the Charlotte Observer, let me tell you the rest of the story. I cannot tell you how I know the things I will say, I can just tell you that I do know them.

I have long advocated Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse as a worthy consideration for donation to assist those in need. Franklin is a good man, and Samaritan’s purse is a good organization. In fact, they were one of the first ones at the scene with water, food, batteries, and so on.

When Trump made his visit to N.C., he discussed the situation with Franklin Graham. He asked him what was needed. Franklin told him that the State National Guard was slow walking the rescue and recovery, had been deployed, but like most other rescuers were awaiting “assessment by the authorities.”

He told Trump that the biggest thing the folks in the N.C. mountains needed at the moment was the ability to communicate. That would aid rescue, would enable folks to contact loved ones, and help them request the needed rescue and help. Trump picked up the phone and called Elon Musk.

He told Musk that communication was badly needed in N.C. Musk said essentially “I’m on it.” He readied his aircraft to deliver the needed infrastructure and sent them on their way.

Now. How did all of this work out? You don’t have to be left wondering. Musk tells you how it all worked out

Some idiot state senator in N.C. (we have a lot of them) said this.

“PLEASE help stop this junk,” added Corbin, a Republican. “It is just a distraction to people trying to do their job.”

“Folks, this is a catastrophic event of which this country has never known,” his statement said. “It is the largest crisis event in the history of [North Carolina]. The state is working non-stop.”

I’ll say to that state senator what I’ll say to the Charlotte Observer. Go pound sand. You don’t know what you’re talking about. But it’s the legacy media and an idiot state senator. So why would anyone trust them anyway?

Quartz (also a terrible publication) penned a commentary entitled Donald Trump and Elon Musk are Trying to Take Credit for Starlink’s Response to Hurricane Helene.

“And so we’re working on that, getting them hooked up,” Trump said. “They asked me whether or not that would be possible. We’re going to try and get the Starlink in there as soon as possible.”

In a post on X (META), White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said the plan to get Starlink terminals for hurricane-hit areas “is already happening.” Bates shared an announcement by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday that outlined plans to deploy Starlink systems in North Carolina.

In North Carolina, “40 Starlink satellite systems are available to help with responder communications and an additional 140 satellites are being shipped to assist with communications infrastructure restoration,” FEMA said in the announcement. Each county’s emergency operations center will deploy one Starlink system to assist with communications and keep the government online, according to the agency.

Meanwhile, Musk said on X that his company “SpaceX has sent as many Starlink terminals as possible to help areas in need” since the hurricane started.

“Earlier today, @realDonaldTrump alerted me to additional people who need Starlink Internet in North Carolina,” Musk said. “We are sending them terminals right away.”

Progressives always accuse someone else of doing what they do, and always take credit for doing what others did. In this case, Musk confirms what I said above and the Quartz article title is equally ridiculous as the Charlotte Observer commentary.

I just told you how it happened: the request went from Franklin Graham to Trump and then to Musk. And no, the federal government didn’t do anything with this except to impede progress.

Some Things Being Done Right in the Hurricane Helene Reponse

BY Herschel Smith
3 months, 1 week ago

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This: “Local Sheriffs have threatened to arrest FEMA workers if they hinder rescue and aid work.”

God bless them.

The Hurricane Helene Hall of Shame

BY Herschel Smith
3 months, 1 week ago

Following up on my post How Helene Affected The People Of Appalachia, there are a number of shameful things that we’re learning about the official response.

Let’s begin with this terrible report of a man who used his own helicopter to rescue stranded people above Asheville, N.C., and who was told if he continued, he would be placed under arrest.

The responsible officials are Dustin Waycaster – Fire Chief, and Chris Melton – Asst. Fire Chief. Congratulations men, you’ve made the hall of shame. It would take an entire article to examine the moral implications of preventing the rescue of men and women in danger, but we’ll leave it at that and cover it later. Suffice it to say that it sounds like you were discomfited by someone showing you up and “interfering with your operation.” Although it’s likely a manifest lie to say that anyone was really interfering with anything.

Next up, let’s go down to Florida where, even though there is state preemption, Chief of Police Donald Hagan believes he knows better.

Before Hurricane Helene made landfall, several cities and municipalities declared local states of emergency to ensure funds would be available for storm-related repairs.

One city’s local state of temporary emergency order has stirred controversy from gun advocates. On Monday, the Okeechobee Police Department admitted to enacting the wrong declaration last week, which mistakenly included a gun ban.

Firearms Policy Coalition, a non-profit gun rights organization headquartered in California, recently posted the notice on X, criticizing the police department for adopting the order, which banned the sale of guns and ammunition and prohibited public firearm possession by anyone other than law enforcement or military members.

[ … ]

“This is something that was mistakenly enacted. Once we learned that the emergency order was not the order that we intended to declare, we immediately terminated it,” Det. Jarret Romanello, Public Information Officer for the Okeechobee City Police Department, told CBS12 News on Monday.

No one believes this was a “mistake,” Jarret. We all believe that you’re a professional liar.

Then there is more on authorities threatening arrest for folks trying to help.

She’s right, of course. Something is very wrong here.

Next up, the hall of shame isn’t limited to the authorities. I wonder who the “activist” groups are who are perpetrating these crimes?

This list of hall of shame members is quite likely to grow in the coming weeks and months.

UPDATE #1:

This is certainly sad. Notice that the cop who enforces what he knows to be an unjust law says “I get it.” But he enforces it anyway, as they will do. The police chief is ultimately to blame for first allowing crack heads into Asheville where the lady had to be worried about it, and second to issue standing orders to prevent this lady from retrieving her property. He (Mike Lamb) deserves to be in the hall of shame.

UPDATE #2:

And perhaps the most egregious actions from the worst of all villains, Pete Buttigieg.

UPDATE #3:

This is disturbing, but expected behavior from the federal bureaucracy. They don’t understand the implications of their decisions, but then they wouldn’t care even if they did. What governors and local authorities (read LE) won’t do is enforce against FEMA. Notice that the local Sheriff is enforcing rules that harm people. Notice that no LE is entering the FEMA dumps to enforce the right to dump. Notice that only the people whose lives will suffer care about this.

UPDATE #4:

Here is an interview with the city manager of Lake Lure, Olivia Stewman. I won’t embed it but will link it. She disgusts me so much, and was deflecting blame to everyone else and defending her actions to the point that I will break that all out into a separate analysis.

UPDATE #5:

The advertised FEMA stipend – $750. The real FEMA stipend – $0.

What? You didn’t really expect FEMA to live up to their word, did you? We’ve sent all of your dollars overseas or housed illegal immigrants with it here. You don’t rate.

New Featured Post

BY Herschel Smith
3 months, 1 week ago

Please visit my new featured post, How Helene Affected The People Of Appalachia.

Flashlight Testing

BY Herschel Smith
4 months, 1 week ago

This is a good set of tests and an interesting channel. I guess one takeaway might be to stick with SureFire and Streamlight (although I have never seen either company field lights that claimed 5000 lumens). I wonder who needs a 5000 lumen flashlight anyway.

Then this is also a good video, but frankly I can’t locate a Maglite 623 with these specifications. I’m guessing it’s a modified version.

Beef jerky, salted nuts and iodine tablets helped an 89-year-old hiker’s ‘very unlikely’ survival in Idaho wilderness

BY Herschel Smith
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Source.

Equipped with only 19 pounds of gear, 89-year-old Bing Olbum set off on what he intended to be a fiveday hiking trip.

Instead, Olbum found himself stranded for nearly 10 days in over 4 million acres of Salmon-Challis National Forest. It’s home to some of the most rugged places in the country beyond Alaska, according to a local search and rescue coordinator.

Some of the peaks and saddles Olbum passed through reached over 8,000 feet as he cleared more than 20 miles while traversing the alpine forest.

“The odds of anybody surviving that period of time out in the wilderness area is very unlikely,” said Custer County Search and Rescue Coordinator Lincoln Zollinger.

On August 1, Olbum ventured from the Hunter Creek Trailhead in east-central Idaho on a backpacking trip. He was expected to arrive at his exit point in the McDonald Creek Area five days later, according to the Custer County Sheriff’s Office.

Olbum was reported as a missing person days later on August 6, the sheriff’s office said.

The Custer County Search and Rescue team began searching for him by land and air. Ground teams scanned the forest for traces of Olbum, lasering in on possible trails on which he could be found.

The next morning, the Idaho National Guard and a private pilot lent their helicopters to help with the search, and the Idaho National Laboratory manned drones to sweep through the forested mountains for signs of Olbum.

Despite the extensive effort, the Custer County Search and Rescue team “had zero traces of him for the five days” they had been looking, Zollinger said.

Local residents of Custer County and the surrounding area made up the ground search teams.

Locals left their jobs and commitments to help with the search for Olbum, as the Custer County Search and Rescue team is entirely made up of volunteers, according to Zollinger.

“We’re still a really small community,” Zollinger said, adding that he and others have spent their whole lives here. “They say, ‘stay off the mountain,’ well we’re going anyways.”

And it was these community members who finally brought Olbum home.

“We were getting ready to discontinue our search and turn it back over to the family to let them look for (him),” Zollinger said, adding that the chances of survivability were low after being out there for so long.

Olbum’s daughter, Jennifer Olbum, posted his photo and trail map on Facebook Thursday asking for information and help from hikers familiar with the area.

“For two days search and rescue have been unable to locate him which tells me he is hurt or worse and unable to lay out a tarp for the choppers to see,” she wrote.

Two days later, on the final evening of the search, a group of local rescuers discovered Olbum’s camp, according to the sheriff’s office.

After searching for Olbum in the surrounding areas, local residents on horseback found him safe in the early morning hours of August 11.

According to Zollinger, Olbum was found virtually unscathed and was only mildly dehydrated and sore from the sheer distance he covered on foot.

That morning, the Custer County Sheriff’s Office praised Olbum, saying his “will to survive has resulted in an unbelievably good ending to this incident” in a post on Facebook.

Olbum had lightly packed for his backpacking trip. His only food for the excursion was beef jerky, salted nuts and iodine tablets to purify water, according to Zollinger. He also packed a one-man tent, a blanket and a pad to sleep on.

He did not have any tracking devices on him and only had a compass and a paper map for navigation.

I don’t recommend hiking the bush in Idaho without a large bore handgun, which based on his light loadout, I’m willing to bet he didn’t have.

I also don’t recommend going into the deep bush with an ultralight loadout. Freeze dried food would have been very light.

Finally, hiking in the bush without a tracking device is bold. Probably too bold for me. I don’t recommend it.


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