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Town Rescues Itself Since FEMA is Worthless

The town of Bat Cave, North Carolina, went vigilante. Rescue workers with FEMA couldn’t drive around a road closed sign, even though the detour is perfectly passable. Since they’re that useless, they can do whatever it is they get paid for somewhere else. Stay away, they’ve been warned.

Town rescues themselves

FEMA basically abandoned the town of Bat Cave, North Carolina, in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Workers paid well by the federal government, to rescue them from major disaster, were stopped in their tracks by a road closed sign. Just drive around, we are, locals assured.

Nope, sorry, can’t do that, crews replied. Fine, be that way, locals snarled back. Get lost. We’ll do it ourselves. They plan to leave the sign up when they’re done, saying “Road Closed TO FEMA.

The minuscule town, who’s major claim to fame is a crack in the rocks favored by nocturnal wildlife, “was almost totally destroyed by Hurricane Helene.

New York Post is as shocked as everyone else to learn residents were left “fending for themselves after FEMA told them that a ‘road closed‘ sign is an insurmountable obstacle for the agency to navigate.

Chelsea Atkins relates “FEMA called me and told me they wanted to inspect my house then called me back to say they couldn’t drive around the ‘road closed‘ sign. They weren’t allowed.” The 38-year-old was astounded. Don’t they have four wheel drive? “FEMA’s response to the aftermath of the storm has been widely panned as insufficient.

The Broad River splits the town in two. It’s 10 times more broad than normal, so of course the road’s a little rough. FEMA crews should have been well prepared to fix it. They weren’t even going to try. “It’s been a civilian-run operation since day one.” Chelsea proudly declares. “You can’t ask the authorities for help.” That’s a big mistake. “They’ll say you need to leave.” Bat Cave is more of a “country-boy can survive” kind of place.

Residents were left fending for themselves.

Just drive around

The only actual obstacle was the sign. “You can drive it by car for sure, it’s not that bad,” Ms. Atkins insists. “You just have to drive around the ‘road closed‘ sign. I explained that to them. They said they couldn’t.” Residents around there are a lot more resourceful than FEMA. “Left to fend for themselves, Bat Cave residents banded together — opening the roads and starting the arduous work of cleanup and recovery.” The town has things well enough under control “that they don’t need FEMA now.

She and her husband “sought shelter Friday morning in the foyer of a small white brick post office across Highway 64 with neighbors Kendall and her fiancée Curtis McCart, 58.” It was washed away. They trudged to higher ground desperately seeking shelter. The first empty house had a gas leak. The porch of the next collapsed in a mudslide under their feet. They rode out the storm in the screened porch of the next.

In fact, more than one inhabitant told The Post, “at this point, they don’t even want the disaster relief agency to come.” They already arranged for the sick and elderly residents to be airlifted out a week ago. Meanwhile, “those left behind have seen virtually no sign of government agencies, save for a handful of State Police troopers.

They’re “keeping an eye on everything,” hoping for a chance to shoot a looter. As local residents haul away rocks and build makeshift bridges as a stepping stone to more permanent ones, the “intermittent whir of military chinook helicopters buzzing over the town serves as a reminder that people in the devastated west of the state are getting help.” But not them.

That’s okay. Alejandro Mayorkas can fornicate with himself. They have “apple orchard workers armed with chainsaws.” Working with “a local grading contractor to clear the roadways,” they had the groundwork done before DOT arrived on scene and were thankful to get some help from someone.

Other families are scavenging “building supplies to shore up homes teetering on the edge of the Broad River.” As one town resident proclaims, “we’re handling it. Leave it to us and we’ll get it covered.” The last thing the rural community needs now is building inspectors sniffing around. Farm folks don’t always do things up to code but they get the job done.

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