Texans Jack and Dodie, Clever Journeys, 1/16/25
It is now confirmed that 126,000 homes have been destroyed, there are 104 confirmed deaths, and $60 billion in damages–all in Western North Carolina.
Of course, this is confirmation from the existing Biden-Harris Administration. The numbers are believed to be far higher than what the White House and Mainstream Media are reporting.
What is the Obama-Biden-Harris-Mayorkas team doing about it?
Last week survivors living in hotels and other locations were told that on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, approximately 3,500 Carolinians were to be kicked out of FEMA housing into 20 degree weather.
Unfortunately for the FEMA, a severe winter storm barreled through the region on Jan. 10, delivering upwards of 4 inches of snow and sleet in some areas. Mayorkas and company blessed these citizens with a last minute reprieve.
The 3,500 households that were previously scheduled to check out of hotels Jan. 12, had their stays extended until Jan. 14.
This is the second extension FEMA has granted displaced residents utilizing the agency’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance program in recent days.
FEMA asks that anyone still needing assistance with housing, to call 800-621-3362.
“Courtney Crouse, who founded the nonprofit Hell or Highwater NC two weeks after Tropical Storm Helene landed in WNC Sept. 27, said she met a woman in the Home Depot parking lot ahead of the winter storm,” the local Citizen Times reported. “Wearing a long sleeve shirt and slippers, the woman said she, her husband and two children lost their home in the storm and were living in a camper without mattresses, Crouse said.”
The nonprofit has been able to place others in tiny homes as their FEMA vouchers ran out.
“My heart right now is just in trying to do everything that we can do to stabilize and help. But we’re still just putting Band-Aids on bullet holes. This is not a long-term solution at all,” Crouse said.
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed his first executive order of 2025 to help expand and grow the number of temporary housing units authorizing the North Carolina Department of Public Safety to purchase up to 1,000 units of transportable temporary housing units (travel trailers and campers).