Been following the disaster in NC. Lots of complaints

[moose65]

27. I've been following it too

My county was hit hard, but not as hard as counties to the southwest. Those counties are disaster areas and look post-apocalyptic.

People in all counties have been working and pulling together and donations have come in from all over. My power is still off after a week, although my house wasn’t damaged. People are volunteering and helping each other, which is good. For a couple of days the misinformation was limited, since most people didn’t have the ability to get online. That was nice, I’ll have to say.

The area hit the hardest, with the exception of Asheville, is a very, VERY conservative area. They are already predisposed to believe every conspiracy theory about the very government that is helping them right now. I can’t imagine how this would have been handled under Trump. UGH.

The craziest conspiracy theory is that this was all planned. The government “sent” the hurricane there so that people would be forced to sell their land, and then the government could get its hands on some imagined lithium mine. It’s so crazy that it defies logic. They don’t really seem concerned about a real threat: the mines in Spruce Pine produce most of the quartz that is used in chips for computers, phones, etc. But that apparently isn’t crazy enough for them!