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Tuesday, October 8th | Hurricane Helene Relief (pt. 2)

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Tuesday, October 8th | Hurricane Helene Relief (pt. 2)

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October 8, 2024 6:00 am

The devastating impact of Hurricane Helene on Western North Carolina and surrounding areas is discussed, with a focus on the inadequate government response and the need for effective disaster relief. The hosts share their own experiences and observations, and interview guests who have been affected by the storm. The conversation highlights the importance of leadership and swift action in times of crisis, and the need for the government to prioritize the needs of its citizens.

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Do just that. Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. ui. edge on the radio in the flash.

We're radio show. I didn't like that. I wonder if they still do that.

I'm sure some do somewhere. Hey, Hey, Hey. It's Clear View Today. Hold on one second. There it is. There it is.

It was a little delayed. Oh, it's good to be back. Man.

It's good to be back. You guys went on a vacation. Yeah, well. Yeah.

Well, you seem unsure. I didn't see, normally Ellie's pretty good about posting pictures, I didn't see any pictures from the vacay. We left for vacay on Sunday. We came back from the vacay on Monday. Here's what happened.

We went down to Emerald Isle, my parents have a place down there, and so we were staying there. It's a trailer, you know, it's a little double wide. And so that's what you don't want to be in, in a F5 tornado environment.

Oh no. I'm just joking, I don't think it was an F5, but it's storm season down at the coast right now, you understand what I'm saying? This time of year from September to like October-ish. This time of year, the coast be doing the most. The coast be doing the most.

Space ghost coast to coast. And so we were down, shout out to 90s kids, so we were down there, right? And so it was rainy, it was miserable. We got down there, we were like, well, I doubt we'll see the beach, but there's stuff to do on Emerald Isle.

But that lasts like a day, you know, it's just a little tiny island. So we went to dinner that night and the rain was picking up, the wind was picking up. And then as we got to dinner, everything was like deathly quiet.

And I was like, okay, this is, this is fine. So we're in the restaurant, we're eating, and everybody in the restaurant's phone goes off at one. That, that is one of my least favorite about cell phones. I don't like that at all.

Cause like, even if you got it muted, it like comes out the whole room, everybody's phone. I was thinking it was like something out of a movie and it was like, hey, tornado warning in the area. And like here in North Carolina, like that happens. So I was just, I didn't think anything of it. I was just like, well, whatever, that tornado has been spotted, it happens. And so we just go on about our meal as normal.

Everybody ignores it, puts their phone away. And so the waitress comes by about 10 minutes later, we're sitting up against the window. They're like, hey guys, we need to move y'all off the glass. There's a tornado heading like right for the restaurant. So I was like, uh, well that's kind of disconcerting, but okay.

So we pick up our food, we pick up our place, they move everybody to the middle of the restaurant. And then I was like, I don't know what came over me. I don't know if this is the white guy in me. I don't know if this is the approaching middle-aged dad in me, but I was like, I reckon I'll step outside and just see. I think I'll just look at it. I think I'll just go outside and see what I see. So I go outside and I expect it to be like huge gale force winds, like massive rain, nothing deathly still deathly quiet, which is almost worse, which was scarier. I was like, this is, this is an eerie feeling.

Like I could like raindrops were like dripping off the roof and I could hear it hit the ground and I was like, this is odd. It was like someone hit mute on the world. And then I heard, this sounds like I'm making it up, but I heard like a train in the distance and I said, let me get back inside. Let me get back inside this restaurant. So we went back inside the restaurant, hunkered down, nothing happened.

Like 30 minutes past. We got two kids with us and they're wondering what's going on. They're trying to play. Everybody's stressed.

Everybody's frustrated. So everything passes. We get back to the, we get back to the house, which is just a double wide and we're like, what do we do? Should we stay?

And it's like, I mean, it's already passed. What's the odds that another one, as I say that lightning strikes the ground, like just across the street, boom, like, I mean, I see it hit the, not our yard, but like across the street and I was like, let's get off this Island. So we just hoofed it right back. We went down there on Sunday, Monday night, we were back in our beds. Well, I hate that vacation got cut short, but I'm glad you're, I'm glad you're fine.

I'm glad you're okay. It was, it was, it was no big deal. Storms on the coast are just, they're just a different breed.

You know, you just don't want to, I just, you don't want to play around here in, in like we're right on the Virginia border here at the, at the studio, but it's, you know, by the time a storm gets here, it's not that big. I mean, it can be bad pretty far inland, but yeah, it was fine. We did. We went to a bunch of places.

We took the kids to Marvel's museum. We took them all over like trampoline parts. We made a whole week out of it, so it was good, but yeah, yeah, I definitely was talking about, well, maybe it's not that bad and lightning just straight was like, the Lord was saying, get off this Island.

It's time for you to go. And now thank goodness we did because Wilmington's and a lot of those surrounding areas around Carolina beach saw a ton of terrible flooding after that. So that was before that was, that was right before Helene hit, so glad we did that.

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We're here once again in the Clearview today studio with Dr. Abbadon Shaw, who's a PhD in New Testament textual criticism, professor at Carolina university, author, full time pastor and the host of today's show, Dr. Shaw. We were talking about some inclement weather on the, on the top of the episode today, talking about when we went, when I went to the beach a couple of weeks back and the tornado started coming straight for that restaurant. I don't know if you've ever done this, but have you ever been like in a storm or, or like people like, Hey, a storm's coming. You're like, I just got to go outside and check. I just got to go outside and see it for myself.

Not me. Like in India. But have you seen people do that where they're like monsoons in India?

That's what I was about to ask. Now monsoons are different than these hurricanes. Now we have typhoons, which is, which is more of what we would think of as a hurricane, right? Cyclones. Yeah. Like tornadoes and stuff. Yeah.

Yeah. Typhoons, cyclones. They're, I don't know what the difference is between hurricanes and cyclones. Maybe somebody can look it up.

I did that research years ago, but I forgot now. But yeah, we have cyclones and they devastate like, like what you're seeing here in Western North Carolina and Georgia and South Carolina and parts of Florida, Tennessee, Virginia. I mean, that's, that's cyclone stuff. So a monsoon causes hurricanes, monsoons are patterns of wind and rain that span huge continents and stuff.

Right. So what's the difference between a hurricane and a cyclone though? So a hurricane versus a hurricane. Because see, like in places like Bangladesh, I mean they are, they just have to prepare for a cyclone. Yeah.

Every year this is going to happen. Yeah. The hurricane and a cyclone are the same thing. Yeah. The national, the national oceans in OAA, I don't know what the A's are for, but it says that hurricanes and typhoons are the same pattern, the same weather phenomenon, which are tropical cyclones.

So I guess they're used in this. So they're under cyclones. Yeah. A cyclone can either be referred to as a hurricane or a typhoon.

A typhoon. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah.

Which one do we prefer? A typhoon sounds pretty cool. You know what?

Typhoons sounds kind of cool. Yeah. I don't prefer either of them. Yeah. I prefer sunny skies. Yeah. I do too. I do too.

I prefer no inclement weather over here at the Clearview today's studio. Yeah. We've had enough for a while.

Yeah. Our hearts are broken for people to the west of our state, western part of our state. And not just there, but also, you know, South Carolina. We used to live very close to Anderson, South Carolina. That's our old stomping grounds, Anderson, Spartanburg, Greenville. And then, of course, Toccoa, Georgia. But Toccoa, that area is okay.

But further up, pretty bad. We talked a lot yesterday about the devastation that Hurricane Helene has caused. And we just kind of wanted to continue that discussion because there's still a lot left to do. And it feels like the only people talking about it are us. And when I say us, I don't mean the three of us around this table, but just us in this area.

Yeah. And without you start looking, I don't see this happening very much. I'm kind of on the internet. I'm looking on Reddit.

I'm looking on other internet forums. And I don't see a lot of discussion unless it's coming from the people who are directly affected. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I found it very interesting that there are a lot of people who are, you know, are talking about it, but then there are people who are just completely oblivious to it or they just don't talk about it.

It's like, why not? Why are we not saying anything about that? Right. And maybe it's just the media. Yeah.

The media has been very biased in this situation. Finally, after a week late, they're saying something about it. Right. And my question is, why so long? Week is too long. Yeah. Too long. It's much too long.

When you are stuck. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. There was a point where after Hurricane Katrina, George Bush showed up in New Orleans three days after everything settled. He was torn apart for that. I remember there being a lot of discussion. I think there was in like 2005, I was in middle school, but I remember people being like, where's the president? Why isn't he here? I don't think Biden has still set foot on, I mean, maybe by the time this airs.

Yeah, he has now, but, but you know, the response should have been immediate, right? Because yeah, Katrina was bad, very bad, but this, what people are saying, and I'm not, I'm not talking about like us or me. These are weather channel people are saying, oh, this is much worse. This is terrible. Yeah.

Yeah. Because I feel like life has, you know, relatively resumed in, in New Orleans. I mean, I feel like they're kind of back to, you know, at least, at least able to function, but Western North Carolina, granted this just happened, but still, I mean, they're going to be rebuilding for the foreseeable future. There was a lot of discussion last week because the handling of this is not, and I get it, I get every single disaster, every time something like this happens, people will complain about the way things are handled. I completely understand that, but there's a lot of discussion talking about the Biden-Harris administration and their response saying that FEMA just doesn't have the funds and there's a, there's a situation that is truly unprecedented in this part of North Carolina and the country. And they're just saying, we don't have enough money to fix it, guys.

We just don't. Sorry. That's not an option. What kind of response is that?

That's not an option. You need to, you need to do whatever you can to help these people. I mean, some of the videos we watched of families struggling, we've seen moms talking about their little child who got, you know, torn away from them, parents who, who died. I mean, they saw them drifting away and never heard from them again.

I've seen videos, thank goodness, of people pulling each other out of the water. This is heartbreaking. This is not happening halfway across the globe.

This is happening for us. Five hours. Yes.

Five hours to the west of us. These are our friends. Yeah. These are our friends that we've known for years. We know some of these people very well. Yes.

Yeah. It's, it's, it's frustrating because this is coming up and it's one of those things where this turns the discussion somewhere it doesn't need to go. And what I mean by that is a lot of people are really upset because FEMA doesn't have enough funds to make it through this hurricane season because of billions and billions being allocated to foreign aid.

And so then instead of bringing that up, which is a very legitimate thing to bring up, people say, so what? You're saying we deserve it more? It was like, well, I mean, it's our money, but at the same time, no, we're not saying that we shouldn't be sending foreign aid. We're saying it's a straw man argument. What we're saying is the money was there for that.

Why is there no money here for this? Right? Yes. I mean, it's very, it's a very obvious, different set of priorities.

He made a statement last week and people on TikTok were blowing up about it, rightfully so, where he was like, listen, it's up to the American people to fund this. Yeah. I'm disappointed. I was like, what? I'm very disgusted.

I'm disgusted with you. Yeah. Now here is a live news report happening where Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia is talking about the damage from Hurricane Helene. And next to him is President Trump, who is running for election. And he's here, he's on the grounds, he's talking to people, he's meeting people.

And it's, let's hear a few seconds here if we can. We have lost 33 of our fellow citizens as a direct result of Hurricane Helene. But I'm here to tell you, in spite of such tragedy and heartbreak, in spite of the pain happening right now, there are many stories of hope and perseverance. Over the course of this past week, Marty and I traveled to Valdosta and Augusta and many communities in between. We spent time with linemen from all over the country who came to Georgia to help those in need and get their power back on. Now some of our own are down near Anderson, South Carolina, which is right on the border of Georgia.

You have Anderson, Livonia, Toccoa, you know, but it's right there. So yeah, some of those linemen that he is referring to are people. We didn't send them. We sent them in with the power company.

Oh, gotcha, gotcha. But we know them. We know who they are and they're giving us sort of an update of what's happening.

And every one of them, every one of them says, it's worse than you realize. Some of our people have been saying that too. The people that we sent, are they in North Carolina?

They stay in there? They're not going down to Georgia? There are some people who work with the power company and all, they're of course in South Carolina. It just happens that they were sent in that direction. There are others who are sent towards the Western North Carolina side. So people have been sent everywhere. But the people who have gone from our church, they have gone, of course, Western North Carolina. We feel like we need to take care of these people first. There are people in Florida taking care of those people. There are people in South Carolina doing what they need to do. We need to do something because face it, North Carolina has been worst hit. Yeah, that's true. That's where the worst, that's where the most damage was caused.

Most damage has taken place. And it's been eerily silent from the national, from the federal and the state government. Which should upset us. I mean, if this tragedy happens in our backyard and nobody's talking about it, I mean, that's obviously targeted.

That's obviously, it's intentional is what I know. Yeah, there's very, yeah, there's very, very little accountability. I saw something where it said FEMA spent $640 million on migrants alone.

Not on any new disaster relief, not on any sort of natural disaster, anything like that on migrants coming into the country. And so because of that, I mean, I truly believe them when they say, hey, look, there's no money to help. I believe you. Yeah.

I think you're telling the truth. I believe that you have spent the money incorrectly. Yeah, right. My response would be find the money. Find it. Right. Find the money. You cannot just say we just don't have it.

Yeah. Find it. And you can't say- If we're loaning billions and trillions of dollars of money that we don't have, find that money. Find it.

My response would be, well, we're going to find it, the American people are going to pull together. It's like, bro, you saw to it that we don't have no money. Right. Right. We used to have money when the economy was good. But you take that. You killed that. Yeah.

So we don't have no money. Do you really want four more years of this? And I would say no. No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not like this. I don't know that we can survive it now.

You mentioned something about there's intentional silences. And I'm seeing reports and people are putting on Twitter that there are medical teams trying to access places like Burnsville and the Black Mountains. And the authorities, they're actually threatening arrest.

They will not let them in to help. That is insane to me. Yeah. Yeah. And again, I have no firsthand information about that. So this is something we just have to wait and see how much of this is coming out as true. I don't know how much of that is- Yeah. It's a Twitter post. It's not a news- Yeah. We don't know for sure. But if it is and people are genuinely good people trying to help, then yeah.

I can see bad people trying to get in and bad elements trying to rob and steal. Okay. Of course. Definitely. But if there are people just trying to help and they are perfectly capable of doing that, please.

True. And there's a lot of people saying that, hey, listen, you should really be donating to the churches. And the churches are the ones who are kind of distributing and sending their people in to help. There were other reports.

And again, by the time you listen to this, these could be debunked or these could be confirmed. But there's other reports that the Red Cross is confiscating people's donations and then having the victims apply to receive them. So they're recovering.

They're either still trapped or they're out. And now they're trying to get their, what you call it, not rations, but their- Their provisions. Yeah.

Their provisions. Exactly. And they're having to apply for them through the Red Cross. That's crazy to me. That's crazy to me. I mean, maybe that's not true. Maybe it's just hearsay.

Maybe it's just unsubstantiated. Yeah. Again, we don't know for sure at this point.

Maybe by the time this airs, all that has been cleared up and has been debunked as Jon just mentioned. Yeah. I mean, I pray that this would be the case, but if it's not, man, if people are really genuinely trying to help and you're not helping. Yeah.

Oh. There's a gentleman in our church who has a team in the area who's talking about they have a team down there. And they were told that when they tried to donate to the Red Cross, Red Cross told them, take it back.

And at the same time, the Red Cross was telling people in line that they had to apply so that they could verify. So, I mean, again, all this stuff is people who are telling us stuff and writing into the show and saying, hey, I have a team, I've seen some guys down there and this is what we're hearing. So, I mean, maybe there's some truth, maybe there's maybe some of it's just frustration bubbling over. But I mean, there's a lot of pressure. But the point is the bedrock is that the response that should be coming from government is not there. The coverage that should be coming from media is not there.

Yeah. This is the time where, you know, people do look to the government and it's like, okay, you want big government, you want to govern us, you want to rule us, let's see how you do it. These are the times that matter.

And it's not surprising, well, it's not surprising that you get disappointed time and time again. We've seen some great, great videos. Maybe we can watch one and then maybe President Trump will make some remarks.

We can watch that in a second. But this is where some horses were used because, of course, the roads have been washed away. You know, ATVs cannot get in there.

It's tough terrain and you have to take in supplies. So check this out. If you're listening on the radio, it's people literally like riding horses through flooding waters. Yeah. Look at those boulders.

I mean, those are the oceans of the road, OK, that have been torn to pieces. And the text is saying, hey, listen, don't comply. Don't bow down. If you want to help, get out there and help. Don't let them stop you from coming in and helping.

No federal help. Firsthand knowledge. Wow.

50 percent or more is being done by average shows. And that's supposedly Old Fort, North Carolina. Where's Old Fort, North Carolina?

Do you want to look that up? I would love to know because these are small communities that we don't know about. We know about Asheville. We know about Boone. Chimney Rock. Chimney Rock.

I mean, these are these are, you know, names that we know. But Old Fort, I don't know where that is. It's near Black Mountain. OK. OK. And that Black Mountain was a hard hit. Oh, yeah.

So very much so. This is this is an important place. Just outside Asheville. Just outside Asheville. OK. Yeah.

Very west. Now check this out. President Trump is speaking here now, along with Governor Kemp, talking to the people about what happened in Georgia and what needs to happen. Some of them are looking back. This is live now.

We'll switch back over to a live view. I want to thank the governor and everybody for having put out to the extent that they've had to. And it's really incredible. The some of the people that we met just now, Congressman Rick Allen, terrific person, speaker of the Georgia House, John Burns, who's here, former Congressman Doug Collins. Where's Doug Collins? Doug Collins.

What a nice guy he is. Oh, Doug. I haven't seen you in so long. You haven't changed. You look good.

You look better, actually, if you want to. State Senator Max Burns, who's here, and District Attorney Bobby Christine. And we want to thank you. But we want to thank the people that are working so hard. And we're here in Evans, Georgia, to express our support, our love and our prayers. And all of the communities are suffering. It's not even believable when you look and you see the kind of suffering that's going on right now. But one of the biggest, I guess, question marks is the fact that there's so many people missing. I've never seen anything where so many, the numbers are so large of those that are missing, Governor, right?

So that's something that hopefully they'll be found and they'll be found very healthy. But it never looks great. Never looks great. It doesn't break for the more than 200 American families who have lost their lives already. Officially 200, and that number, unfortunately, is gonna be going up. It's one of the deadliest storms in American history. More than two dozen Georgians have died, including a 27-year-old mother and her two precious babies who lived not very far from McDuffie County. And father, a lot of people knew these people.

They're great. I don't know if we've talked about how many deaths overall from Helena, North Carolina. Must be almost unbearable, don't know how you can even take it. Loved ones all over, all over your county, all over your state, and all over a lot of other states. You have Florida. Think of it, you have Virginia, you have South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina maybe hit the worst.

North Carolina is so bad. I wanna thank Elon Musk, by the way, for his quick action with Starlink, who supplied a lot of equipment to the governor, to Georgia, and to North Carolina in particular. And he acted very, very quickly. They needed communication. There was no communication.

The poles are down, the wires are down. And he acted really, really quickly. In fact, I called him and I was getting thank you notices already from North Carolina and Georgia, and I wasn't off the phone with him. So I don't know what the hell he's, I guess he's got some kind of a little special deal going.

He works pretty fast, I'll tell you, but he's been great. And Larry Ellison made a very big contribution. And a friend of the governor's and mine is right here, Steve Whitcoff, who also made a very big contribution.

Steve, we appreciate it very much, thank you. I mean, for Elon Musk to have jumped on this and done what he had to do, I think that is very commendable. Yeah, I mean, communication is our lifeline to be able to tell the world what's happening, to be called out for help. When you lose that, and when you go into the mountains, I've been there, I've hiked into the mountains before, I've hiked with groups, I've hiked with just one other person. And I mean, you go on and on. I mean, you see a hilltop far away and you think, oh, yeah, I'll be there in 15 minutes.

No way. And a few hours later, you're still not there. Yeah, you'll be there at the end of the day if you're lucky. Oh, yeah. And you're tired, you're exhausted. Imagine people like this who are hungry, tired, their spirits are broken, having to march through this rearranged terrain. Yeah, they just survived the storm, yeah.

Yes, and the terrain is nothing but rocks and boulders and all of that. I mean, can you imagine the toll, the stress, the mental, physical, emotional fatigue? We might be a little short on time, but one thing I did want to mention, because you mentioned Elon Musk and his quick response, and that's one of the key things that I've learned about leadership from you and from working here at Clearview that I think people don't talk about leadership, is the speed. You have to act. There are times where you have to act. And sometimes it's little things.

Like we're sitting in service and something goes wrong, like the screens black out or the power, and people will just kind of stand around. And one of the things I learned from you is if you're a leader, you get up and you move. That's right. You don't have to, like there are times where things will go wrong and everybody's aware, I don't have a plan, but I'm up and I'm moving. Right. You know what I mean?

You formulate a plan as you go. Right. Well, I mean, look at it. President Trump is over here.

He's already on the ground. He's talking, he's taking questions. I mean, let's listen to some of those things. It's great. No, no, no. It's great. Now we work together. We've always worked together very well.

Very really well. It's top. Yes. Yeah, of course they are. It's been a terrible response from the White House. They're missing a billion dollars that was used for another purpose. Yeah. And nobody's seen anything like that.

No, from that standpoint, it's been terrible. I'm not thinking about voters right now, I'm thinking about lives. And to be honest, it's much bigger than anything else. But we're thinking about lives, a lot of lives lost, a lot of people missing. And that's what I'd be focused on right now. That's a great answer. Yeah.

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