As Hurricane Helene ravages the southeastern U.S., many Americans are waking up to a familiar, gut-wrenching reality: the government’s response is too little, too late. In places like Asheville, North Carolina, people are living through a modern-day Katrina, with FEMA and the Red Cross nowhere to be found. While federal and state agencies drag their feet, Mercury One is already on the ground to fill the void.
Tragedy strikes in Asheville, North Carolina
The stories coming out of the impacted areas are heart-wrenching. One of Mercury One’s contacts, a former Green Beret, was out of town when the hurricane hit. He lost contact with his wife and 3-year-old daughter. Frantically, he returned and found them by helicopter in the midst of the destruction, along with over 100 other people still awaiting rescue. That’s just one story out of many being reported back to Mercury One. In North Carolina alone, hundreds of thousands are facing weeks without clean water, and approximately 600 people are still missing. Ambulances are submerged in floodwaters, filled with patients who didn’t make it to the hospital in time.
The real question is, why does the government continue to fail to step in to help Americans in crisis? We’ve seen it before in Maui, East Palestine, and now here. As Mercury One’s executive director J.P. Decker said on The Glenn Beck Program, “Did we not learn from these past disasters?” That’s why Glenn founded Mercury One in the first place: if we truly believe that we shouldn’t be reliant on the government, we have to be willing to step up and love our neighbor when they are in need.
And that’s exactly what Mercury One is doing. […]
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