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Originally Posted by KC911
I have family and friends who have lived in Asheville and the NC mtns for decades. I watch daily local news reports from 3 local stations reporting throughout... from reporters who grew up, went to school, etc. there.... and I am right here at ground zero for efforts heading west. I see real NC people making decisions and making progress. The rescue efforts have been intense... but not perfect.
Fint .... contact your NC senators and your NC state legislature reps.
Or just ***** on a car forum...
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You have never lived there and have never witnessed the current devastation (or suffered from it). You have lived your life in the wealthiest area of the state with many fabulous colleges (with multiple schools of engineering, law, and medicine), military bases, plentiful Federal and state jobs, and almost obscene with job opportunities. You had parents with the wherewithal to send you to college and you often brag about your well-paying job and retiring in your 40s. As noted, you should walk a mile in the shoes of someone that had nothing and had to leave home for a decent job...or any opportunity beyond toiling in the fields or flipping hamburgers for folks like you. Maybe you should take your remarks that trivialize the suffering of these folks elsewhere.
"Ground zero" is not where you are and not where you will ever be. You should see the world before you tell those that have what it is like.
I have never met or ever even heard of a reporter that came from the poor, dirt farm, dirt-road poverty of the rural Appalachian Mountains where I grew up. I would know them as that entire end of the county went to the same high school. I have met few with even a decent job (unless they fled the area while rather young like I did). Yet you somehow listen to reporters from there every day. Amazing. Why are they not on the stations I watch in Asheville or eastern TN? I just watched a piece on the Fox Business Channel (national news) today that featured an NC Congressman who described exactly what I have here (and the lack of assistance by FEMA).
Yes, I do keep up with the area (every day) ...as I live there for part of the year, have a home there and invest there (even though I can make a better return elsewhere). I have friends and family that live there. Visiting a brew pub in the gentrified area of Asheville where out of state owners lure tourists and hippies and take advantage of cheap labor and local tax dollars (which are largely spent to attract tourism) really does not count.
The question was asked about how things were in the area (in this car forum). I a explained the situation (someone that has been there and seen the devastation) ...and received nothing but derision, nonsense, and personal attacks from those that have not. Of course, that is why so little has been done by governmental entities (just as always for that region) ...because it is easier to spout misinformation and ignore actual issues.
"Rescue efforts" by governmental entities have not been "intense" as you seem to believe. They were late in some areas and nonexistent in others. As always, the wealthy and influential will eventually be helped and the rest will continue to suffer....and guys like you will have sore arms from patting yourself on the back and telling others just how virtuous you were/are.
The wealthy political class that you defer to is not interested and have had decades to make long term decisions and investments in the area and have not. They recognize that there are not enough votes and/or payoffs to be had from the rural poor or are as misinformed as you (never been there). The answer is not to quickly move on from this disaster to the next and sweep these poor people under the rug once again. Stop trying to make this political and get it hidden in PARF (as you are wont to do) when the world is not as you perceive it to be (when your argument fails). If you have no actual information to provide and don't want to discuss it, you should probably just leave this to those that do.
Complaining on a car forum (in an off-topic area) is a good start. Otherwise, folks on that forum think things are great...because you will tell them that. Obviously, there is interest, or the question would not have been asked. One has to start somewhere.