The Lack of Housing in WNC
The National Guard Retreats from WNC, Biden issues Letter to FEMA to Deploy Housing Resources, as FEMA has Distributed 14 Homes
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“Don’t use my name, but a constituent called me yesterday asking about all the FEMA housing units and trailers that are staged in Hickory,” the lawmaker wrote in a private message to Cassie Clark, an N.C. influencer.
“They’ve been there for a few weeks. I asked FEMA what they were and confirmed they indeed are housing units staged for inspection waiting to be sent out to ‘qualifying counties.’ I asked for a timeline. Attached is the response. Very disappointing,” the lawmaker added.
The attached response from FEMA read as follows: “At the moment not specific time frame, this would be very depending on each individual survivor that are in the FEMA IA program and also in the process with the counties/cities to look for areas to stage them for the survivors.”
According to Matt Van Swol, a reporter and photographer, a non-profit by the name of EmergencyRV has been doing FEMA’s job by providing affected families with an RV if and when possible.
The non-profit did at one point try begging FEMA for access to their empty trailers but were denied.
Speaking later on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Swol called for FEMA to just hand over the RVs and deal with the paperwork later.
“It’s absolutely horrific,” he said of the crisis in N.C. “I mean, there should be zero American citizens living in tents in North Carolina right now. There are plenty of FEMA trailers available for these citizens. They’re sitting maybe 15 miles away.”
“They’re nice and heated, and they’re occupied by FEMA workers. So I put out a post saying that maybe you should get out of those and hand them to the people [who need them] because it’s getting cold outside. So why not just hand them over and deal with the paperwork later?” he added.
When confronted by Fox News, a FEMA spokesperson handed over a fact sheet highlighting all that the agency has supposedly done for the Hurricane Helene survivors in North Carolina.
With this fact sheet in mind, host Laura Ingraham asked Swol, “Could it be that people are choosing as the inclement weather is coming to live in these tents?”
Swol’s wife then cut in to answer that question.
“No, they’re basically given a choice,” she said. “We were given a choice. A few days after we got out of Asheville and came back, we got a letter from FEMA with a voucher to a hotel in Tennessee, far away from everyone who needed us here. We came back. We decided to stay.”
“We got denied twice from FEMA, appealed, ended up having to have a generator to take care of our neighbors on either side of us. One’s on a CPAP machine. The other one didn’t have electricity of any kind, including cooked plates. Everyone’s circumstances is incredibly different,” she added.
According to a separate report, FEMA isn’t just denying people access to its trailers — it’s also denying them access to tiny homes built by volunteers.
Meanwhile, the federal government is now claiming it doesn’t have any more money to hand over to Hurricane Helene survivors.
Source: https://americanwirenews.com/fema-rv-trailers-sit-empty-while-homeless-nc-hurricane-victims-face-snow-and-freezing-temps-report/
A Tweet: The National Guard Retreats from WNC
November 21, 2024
The Thread
The Tweet
November 22, 2024, Senator Tedd Budd et, al., ask Biden to lift FEMA housing requirements for WNC.
The Congressional Letter to Biden
Source: https://x.com/sentedbuddnc/status/1860060578556899776?s=46
The Thread
Operation Shelter: https://www.givesendgo.com/OperationShelter?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=OperationShelter
The Tweet
FEMA has over 500 families awaiting a home.
Source: https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1861220961724334376
The Thread
The People Are the Solution
Whether in Florida or in WNC, when one person has a need, American citizen volunteers with boots on the ground are answering it as best as possible.
Church Delivers 8 Amazon Trucks Filled with Heaters
18 hours ago
See the Video description for the list of 4 churches who organized this! It’s amazing to see what great need can be filled with heaters, which are saving lives:
Folks eight trucks pulled in from Amazon just this morning to the Bethel, Wesley and Church in flat rock North Carolina full of heaters hoses and adapters. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this effort to save the lives of our fellow Americans in western North Carolina by providing heat to those living in outbuildings, bar and tents. You have no idea how many lives you have just saved by your donation. May the Lord bless each and every one of you who has stepped up to help provide for those in need. Central Global Methodist Church plans to release checks to each family that has been vetted through the helping hands on Wednesday, December 4 to help these folks pay for renovations and expenditures to rebuild. If you would like to contribute to help these families rebuild, please see down below the link that you can send money to for the helping hands. Make sure you designate your own Line contribution or check to the Hurricane Relief otherwise it will go into the general fund and we will not know about your donation to help western North Carolina, so please designate it online by using the other box and designate or mark on your check in the memo for Hurricane Relief helping hands. Thank you so much . Thank you for all your support. May the Lord bless you.
Donation information
Helping Hands for a family
Central Global Methodist Church
300 S Main St Asheboro NC 27203
Main office - 336-629-1425
https://centralasheboro.org/events-op...
Operation Mountain Relief Midway
Wesleyan Church
331 Worthville Rd
Randleman NC 27317
Pastor Kenneth Davis - 336-859-9889
Project Santa
P.O. Box 175
Denton NC 27239
Physical location:
First Baptist Church
383 W Salisbury St
Denton NC 27239
1-336-859-3531
Pastor Tim Clark
Bethel Wesleyan Church
901 Tracy Grove Rd
Flat Rock NC 28731
(828) 489-1714
Christ Centered | Bethel Wesleyan Church | United States
Budd McCall - appalachiannavy@yahoo.com
Wayne Allred - deepriverfarmnc@yahoo.com
LET US PRAY
Holy Father,
Bless those still in the cold. Let us, Your body of Christ, gather together at Thanksgiving with one less pie to buy a heater, one less bottle of wine, Holy God.
Keep the weather without rain, Lord of Lords and King of Kings! Bless all the people still in tents or substandard housing, and let them get the help they need.
Thank you for breathing life into me, for being so kind to me! We are OVERWHELMED by Your Total Love and Compassion, Mercy and Goodness, Holy Lord!
As almost all the volunteers stop their efforts to be with their families, help them be rejuvenated and restored in their energy, Blessed Father. And do not let them feel guilty for being warm and fed! THIS WE PRAY!
Thank you for our warm clothes, sunny skies, and hot meals. We are ever more grateful for all Your blessings, and thank You for all that we have. May we continue to love our neighbor as ourselves, as we give You ALL OUR HONOR AND PRAISE!
We Raise a Hallelujah to You!
In the Name of Jesus we pray these things, Father.
Amen!
FEMA has been consistently applying to to be terminated by their actions, and lack of actions.
Lots of people needing jobs, willing to help!
Last straw for fema
Thank God for Christian’s, and all people braving
Unholy circumstances for strangers.
Crisis reveals character and so far our spoiled paid
Government employees have none.
Thanks for sharing!!!
Nice to see people on the ground from church’s all
Walks of people helping.
Another strong reason to cut bureaucracy for its mountains of paper, insufficiency to act for the betterment of their own citizens. Billions of dollars to Ukraine against Russia who is defending her borders and her people, is what we as a country ought to be doing!
Americans are stepping up! American government as it stands needs to be cut down.
All Glory to God!! Help Appalachia.
As always, thank you for sharing Dr.Aranda.❣️🙏