weknowwhygary on Nostr: White pills all around. I've been listening to the Mt. Mitchell ham radio repeater in ...

White pills all around.

I've been listening to the Mt. Mitchell ham radio repeater in North Carolina. A handful of high functioning White people showed up after the hurricane and put together an emergency response operation like what you would expect from trained professionals.

They have logistics, communications, administration, and medical all hammered out and functioning smoothly. They turned an airport up in the mountains into the headquarters and are running non-stop flights out to the entire area. There is zero federal response where they are, and they aren't asking for it.

There is a ham radio repeater tower on the top of the mountain, and volunteer hams are taking shifts operating net control like a police dispatch call center. HQ is holding morning and evening radio briefings detailing everything happening in their AO, and needed supplies. Hams on the ground are on the radio all day long, relaying information through net control back to the airport about all of the pockets of civilians they are reaching, their status, their needs, etc.

If the airport is the headquarters, the churches are their outposts where they fly supplies to and coordinate distribution from. One church is cooking a thousand meals a day just to feed the people working at the airport. The head of operations at the airport says that, aside from the supply trucks that are coming in from all over the country, all other support is coming from local churches.

They are currently transitioning responsibility for the entire operation to the churches, because they know the outside volunteers can't stay there forever. Reminds me a little of the church during the fall of Rome.

They are asking for log splitters to mass produce firewood, as they don't expect normal to return before winter.