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A view of Helene's destruction from someone who is living through it. ***** It would be impossible to be fully prepared for an event of this scale. It takes 100x the manpower to repair infrastructure that is destroyed everywhere, all at once than we can reasonably be expected to have. (Fortunately we have linemen, road crew, and other tradesmen arriving from out of town and out of state by the hundreds to assist the local crews.) It takes many times the resources to provide for people who, prepared or not, lost their homes, lost power, lost access to clean water. ***** https://starrohara.substack.com/p/helene-the-hellion-mountain-folks It is not a pretty picture. The extent of human suffering in the wake of Helene's wrath is in most respects indescribable. Yet we should also take note of the essential optimism in what she has to say: she believes the people of Appalachia will survive because that's just what they do. With or without FEMA, with or without government, the people will endure. That says something, both about the nature of the human spirit and the inhumanity of the government agencies that are failing these people in a time of urgent need.