{"id":109130,"date":"2024-10-01T13:46:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109130"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:46:50","slug":"in-the-wake-of-hurricane-helene-questions-emerge-about-government-warnings-and-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109130","title":{"rendered":"In the wake of Hurricane Helene, questions emerge about government warnings and response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Spokespeople for the city and Buncombe County, which includes Asheville, didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment about residents\u2019 criticisms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooper said at a news conference Monday that people are working nonstop to provide food, water and help. He said flooding and continuously rising rivers have prevented first responders from entering some communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At a news conference earlier Monday, Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder expressed frustration with what she described as a slow response to requests for supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been asking for water, and we\u2019re just getting water, and it\u2019s still in low quantities,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a large need in our community, and we would like to see a different response from our state partners, a better response from our state partners,\u201d which fulfills those requests through FEMA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At Monday\u2019s White House briefing, homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall told reporters that FEMA focused its pre-positioning efforts in the Big Bend, Florida, area and that the effort saved lives. Post-landfall, it \u201csurged capacity to where it was needed the most.\u201d She noted that western North Carolina has now been identified as the area that was hit most acutely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rep. Chuck Edwards, a Republican who represents western North Carolina, said state emergency officials can\u2019t tell him where 400 pallets of food and water from FEMA intended for hurricane relief have gone. Edwards\u2019 staff says two counties in particular, Haywood and McDowell, desperately need water. FEMA said in a news release that it sent 25 trailer loads of food and 60 trailer loads of water to North Carolina.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">State officials are now distributing them, but Edwards\u2019 staff says it hasn\u2019t been able to find out where they are going or when. A state official told Edwards\u2019 team by email Sunday that the state is leaving any announcements about where food and water will be distributed up to the counties. \u201cIf the public is just told water etc was dropped off at point X we could see people actually fighting over who gets what,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Asked by NBC News on Monday whether FEMA knows what happened to the water and why it\u2019s not quickly getting to those who need it most, Criswell said the agency was \u201csending as many resources as they\u2019re asking\u201d for and trying to \u201cto push water in.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to take all of us to come together to make sure, understand where the communities are that maybe we haven\u2019t gotten to yet get those resources to them,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">NBC News also asked FEMA spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg about a request for more resources that was sent out Sept. 17, which cited a \u201csevere shortfall\u201d in some disaster response teams. Rothenberg acknowledged that staffing had been an issue. \u201cIt is true we are operating a lot of missions across a lot of disasters,\u201d she said, which is why the agency put out a call in mid-September for what it called a \u201csurge capacity force.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Monday, about three days after Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 storm, survivors in North Carolina were scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/wake-hurricane-helene-questions-emerge-government-warnings-response-rcna173347\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokespeople for the city and Buncombe County, which includes Asheville, didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment about residents\u2019 criticisms. 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