When the rich and famous along with their media hangers-on acolytes pull at your sympathies and ask you for money; I want you to juxtapose the damage from America’s two coasts. The California fires on the West Coast damaged or destroyed around 12,000 structures while Hurricane Helene and Milton had around 125,000 structures blasted on the East Coast. There is a big difference here, there is also a massive difference in the coverage of these two tragedies by the legacy media. There should be a vast gulf garnering your charity looking at both coasts when it comes to giving your money to these disasters.

The Democrats, the Democrat Party, Hollywood’s rich and famous, and the leftist media all ignored the East Coast hurricanic horrors because there was an election at the time. The left did not want your eyeballs on the propinquity of the government’s hurricane response by Democrats in the middle of an election. Never forget any of that when you are hit with nonstop media coverage of the L.A. fires. Certainly, keep all this in mind when reaching into your financial charitable pockets.

Hurricane Helene in 2024 was the strongest hurricane on record to hit the “Redneck Riveria” (Big Bend Area) of Florida, it was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Maria in 2017, and the deadliest to aim at the mainland of the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Two-hundred and forty-six dead with another twenty-six missing was reported at one point from Hurricane Helene.

In addition, Hurricane Milton killed thirty-five people and was an extremely powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that became the second-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded over the Gulf of Mexico (Now Gulf of America), behind only Hurricane Rita in 2005. Milton landed on Florida’s West Coast no less than two weeks after Helene devastated everything in its path. Milton was the strongest tropical cyclone to happen in all of the world in 2024. These two hurricanes dwarf what happened in the California fires where twenty-nine enumerated deaths occurred.

I mourn for the victims of the Los Angeles Fires, but I sob for the people in North Carolina. North Carolinians crushed by Hurricane Helene are poor folks with very little options, resources, or political clout. When spotlighting the overwhelming coverage of the fires and burned down homes of the rich and famous do not forget the Amish community from Pennsylvania that went to Boone, North Carolina to build tiny wooden homes for Hurricane Helene victims to keep them out of the snow.

C. Rich

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