While public pressure and mounting accounts of FEMA's failures to assist drowning communities in western North Carolina and other hurricane-battered regions seem to have forced the federal government to do more, some living the nightmare say FEMA relief remains spotty at best.
He told CNN on Sunday that when Operation Helo launched following the heavy rains and floods "There was no military presence, there was no military help, there was no FEMA. There was nothing." As of Sunday, more than a week later, there was "Still no FEMA, still no military, still no nothing. We're begging - this is day eight, nine now," McSwain said.
On Tuesday, FEMA claimed that federal assistance for Hurricane Helene survivors had surpassed $286 million, with an additional $180 million in "Mission assignments to federal partners." The agency issued a press release claiming that nearly 7,000 personnel from across the federal workforce are assisting hurricane victims.
Caroline Miklosovic says FEMA has been slow to assist in eastern Tennessee, where Helene's heavy rains forced the swollen Nolichucky and Pigeon rivers and their tributaries to surge over their banks and wash out communities in Greene and Cocke counties.
"I've not seen FEMA [staff] in a lunch line or FEMA doing clean up," she told me in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon.
The corporate news outlet, like so many others, pushes its version of a "Fact check." Democrat Party mouthpiece Politico on Tuesday ran a piece with the headline, 'The worst I have ever seen': Disinformation chaos hammers FEMA. FEMA and the White House not surprisingly continue the CYA info dump with press releases praising the administration's efforts and decrying "Rumors" about FEMA's failures.
As The Federalist reported last week, FEMA has established a "Hurricane Rumor Response" page encouraging Americans to do their part "To stop the spread of rumors." How? By finding trusted sources of information, sharing information from trusted sources, and discouraging others from sharing information from unverified sources.
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