(Natural News)—Word on the street is that it will take months to restore power, water and some kind of normalcy to everyone impacted by Hurricane Helene in North and South Carolina, which were hit hardest by the storm’s flood waters.
The situation is so bad in western North Carolina especially that Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) issued a press release detailing the progress of emergency responders and repair crews.
“More than 30 swift water and helicopter rescue crews from across North Carolina and seven nearby states have rescued more than 200 people since Thursday,” Edwards says.
“Thousands of linemen from across North America, including crews from Canada, have been deployed to our community to restore power, and we’ve seen the state come together to transport dozens of trucks filled with potable water and food to our shelters.”
While a valiant effort, these operations will still take a lot of time considering the scope of the damage. Twelve counties along with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are basically disaster areas that are now eligible for assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“Individual Assistance provides financial aid and services to eligible individuals and households that have been affected by a disaster to assist with the recovery process. Individuals can officially begin applying for Individual Assistance online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov, or by calling the application phone number at 1-800-621-3362 (TTY: 800-462-7585) between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. EST.”
The destructive path of #Helene has left extensive damage to @DukeEnergy infrastructure in the #NC mountains and Upstate #SC . We believe around 50% of remaining outages in these areas will require significant replacement and rebuilding of poles, lines and substation equipment. pic.twitter.com/b7eANjX0ta
— Jeff Brooks (@DE_JeffB) September 30, 2024
(Related: Just a few weeks remain until Election Day and huge swaths of the Carolinas will not be able to vote due to Hurricane Helene – coincidence?)
No backup transformers available thanks to Biden, Ukraine, EVs and AI
As of this writing, there are more than one million households throughout the Southeast that are still without power due to Hurricane Helene. Nearly 300,000 of those are located in western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina where authorities expect there to be infrastructure problems well into the coming months.
Edwards notified his constituents that 360 power substations in western North Carolina alone “are out.”
“Many of these substations were completely flooded and Duke Energy is unable to assess the damage until the flooding has lowered, the water has been pumped out, and the equipment is thoroughly dried,” he said.
There actually would have been backup transformers available to fix all these broken substations had President Biden not just sent off the nation’s strategic stockpile of them to Ukraine so Volodymyr Zelensky can use them to advance his interests.
The ballooning artificial intelligence (AI) industry is also snatching up transformers and other similar equipment to build data centers, not to mention all the electric vehicle (EV) nonsense that is similarly funneling much-needed supplies away from the damaged energy grid.
“Distribution transformers are a bedrock component of our energy infrastructure,” commented National Renewable Energy Laboratory researcher Killian McKenna to PV Magazine about how Big Tech is gobbling up the supplies needed to properly maintain America’s energy grid.
“But utilities needing to add or replace them are currently facing high prices and long wait times due to supply chain shortages. This has the potential to affect energy accessibility, reliability, affordability – everything.”
Many are now wondering out loud if geoengineering may have been used to “steer” Hurricane Helene towards the battleground states of Florida, North Carolina and Georgia to rig the election results. Find out more at Rigged.news.
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