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HURRICANE UPDATE - NORTH CAROLINA I just got this sent to me this morning via "Sara" from a former vet in the North Carolina region: I am trying to get the link to her website.
“things are getting really bad really quick. He’s a fellow multiple tour Iraq vet and is not prone to exaggeration.
He’s in NC and here’s his first update:
This entire area is a war zone, even if not directly “destroyed” by flood waters. There are men, women and children starving, without water and sanitation. No fuel. People can’t get to any distribution points because they have no fuel. People are walking on foot and dragging wagons . . . The majority of federal and state assets are being diverted to the incorporated areas of Asheville, Black Mtn, etc. and without a deliberate effort yet into the rural unincorporated areas. People are suffering, and communities are rapidly moving to isolation and self-defense and policing.
There are bodies floating down the rivers. There are bodies stuck in the tops of trees. Linemen entering destroyed areas are finding dozens of children as young as 3 walking thru the mud near naked, crying for their parents, some with ropes still tied on their arms attached to broken lumber where clearly their dead parents had last ditch tied them to something.
Was talking to a lineman yesterday how he’s finding heads and limbs everytime debris is removed. Entire communities are just gone. Gone gone. Nothing to repair, and in some of the areas just no one to even help anymore. Just bodies, with a stench increasing by the day.
The death count WILL be in the thousands. Desperation is increasing, and most vets are lying on their roofs with rifles. Local rural gas stations, markets etc have clear militias forming with men in hodge podge gear and rifles patrolling. We are self-policing now.”
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
Pray and pray more. I want to use words not allowed to be posted here in order to describe our government. FEMA says it's broke when It is NOT!! It has money. Billions. That money has been allotted for other things and they're not allowed to use it for hurricane relief.
Where is that money going to? Refugee relief. Illegal border immigrants are getting help, while tax paying citizens are experiencing this??!! I can't even begin to have words for these people right now. This is insane as insane can be. The world feels like it's coming apart at the seems. This country too! I just can't believe what is happening. It needs to stop!!
Domine Non Sum Dignus!
Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.
~ Mother Angelica
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
i hear your frustration.
same thing happening here in Australia.
they sent millions to the lgbqt movement OVERSEAS.....
refugees are getting homes, cars, wages, medical care etc
while the tax payers are suffering.
Rental costs are going through the roof as one parishioner mentioned.
Its beyond belief.
we pray for the safety of all
Lord mercifully hear our prayers
"He who followeth Me, walketh not in darkness." sayeth the Lord
