September 30, 2024 • 36 mins
Clay describes how fans went bonkers at the Georgia-Alabama game and predicts Georgia will go red. The hurricane response from the Biden-Harris Administration has been comprised by the VP taking a staged photograph on a plane pretending to write on a blank piece of paper. Democrats, who always politicize natural disasters, now demand Republicans don’t mention how bad a job Democrats are doing -- and don’t expect the press to call them out on it. Israel takes out Hezbollah’s latest head terrorist.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show thirty
six days until the election. Next week will be exactly
five weeks out. We will also be crossing the Rubicon Bucks,
so to speak, where we'll be able to say next
month is the official election. It is here. There is
(00:23):
a lot going on. I was with Donald Trump on
Saturday night at the Georgia Alabama football game. Met a
lot of our listeners all over the place from Georgia
and Alabama. Heck of a scene, Buck, The stadium went
absolutely bonkers for Donald Trump. It's good to be out
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in the public. I know it was Alabama, but the
enthusiasm that I saw everywhere for Trump surrounding this game
with him attending there again, Georgia is a battleground state.
It emphasized and emphasized for me that he is going
to win the state of Georgia, and all of you
out there listening in the state of Georgia need to
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make sure you are going out, you were voting, and
you were going to make that happen. We'll talk a
little bit about that, the continued attacks that Israel is
putting on Hesbola in the Middle East, but we have
to start with a story that is unfortunately not receiving
anywhere near the attention that it should be, and that
is the absolute devastation that has occurred in East Tennessee,
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Western North Carolina, the mountainous region of South Carolina. For
those of you that are not familiar with that area
of the country, I know we have a lot of
you who usually listen. We may have some of you
listening to us on the radio, and because you don't
have any other battery powered radios can be so important.
(01:52):
I'm going to talk to Buck because his sister in
law is in the middle of all of this. I'm
gonna ask for you eight hundred to eight to two
eight eight two if you are in that impacted region,
if you're in East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, the mountainous
areas of South Carolina, where many people are still stranded,
(02:13):
where our federal government is completely failing and taking care
of these people. I'm gonna get Buck to tell you
his own family situation because I experienced a little bit
of it, and I'll talk about it as well. But
I want to play Joe Biden being asked about the
federal government's response to the impact of the hurricane fallout
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in this region in the same weekend where we're giving
billions and billions of dollars more to Ukraine. This feels
very much like America. Last kind of thinking. Biden is
asked about what he can do for the people in
this region, all over the Appalachian area, and he said,
federal government's done everything that it can. It's disgraceful, it's disgusting,
(02:57):
it's indefensible. But I want you to hear it from
our commander chief.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You aren't. Yes, it's tragic.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
As a matter of fact, we're trying to get to
exact numbers my FEMA advisors on the ground in Florida
right now. There's a distinction between the numbers that famous
used and the ones that used by.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
By the locals.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So it's uh, it really is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You saw the photographs. It's stunny.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
It's so many.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's such a wide area, and we've we've given them
all of the everything that we have ram the ground
ahead of time, so we're working hard.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Are there any more resources the federal governments have been
given them?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
No, we've given them. We have true planned a significant
amount of it, even though they didn't.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Ask for yet.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Hadn't asked for that.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, that is not what is on the ground.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That's why I want to open up the phones and
let people call in and tell us what they are seeing. Buck,
your sister in law is in the Ashville area. I
know your family has been dealing with this directly. I'll
tell you a story that I know. But from your perspective,
you've been using these rapid radios to communicate. Just tell
us what your own family is dealing with right now
(04:10):
and has seen.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
My sister in law, her husband and UH and their
their little baby boy.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They had to shelter in place.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
They're in the Asheville area, kind of outside outside Ashville
little ways.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And I mean I've seen video.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Look Friday night, much of the night of e spend
trying to calm carry down. It wasn't until we figured
out we could use their rapid radios. We actually use
those on Saturday for a family to be able to communicate.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So came in incredibly handy. I know the sound cell.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Phones are all down and many people still can't be contacted.
This is directly like you were using them.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Yeah, they were there, my so I made sure that
my father in law had one and Carrie's sister had
one and they were able to communicate via rapid radios
and otherwise we were sitting around thee nerver was totally down,
power down. Look, they were sheltering in place, trees. I've
seen video of it and talk to them and we've
been checking in with them, And I'm just sharing this
(05:07):
because I'm sure a lot of people in the area
had a similar situation. First of all, I'm down here
in Florida, and Florida is everyone here knows you can
hit by hurricanes, and that doesn't mean that the devastation
is any less, but you're prepared and you have some idea.
No one was talking about this hitting really what Appalachia
you could say, I mean hitting this corner of well,
(05:30):
it was really Georgia, the greater Atlanta area, North Carolina,
eastern Tennessee and just dumping so much water. So as
Carrie's sister and family were sheltering in place, trees just
started going down everywhere. And when you see the video
of this, you have to remember there's one thing which
happened to them, which is a tree came down in
the house and actually smashed through the roof and got
(05:53):
down they now have a kind of a skylight almost
in the kitchen that's not supposed to be there. I
mean it's open air. Tree just went right through. So
they're talking about a large, heavy tree and they were
home when that happened. You can imagine, oh, I'm good,
I'm safe. I'm here during the hurricane, and then a
tree goes through the kitchen. Okay, so that was very unsettling.
They had they do have a basement. They were able
to get to the basement. But what they also realize
(06:15):
is as the trees are all going down, now you
can't get out. You've got power lines coming down, you
have no power, you have no communications.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Other than the rapid radios.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
They also the amount of damage from mud slides, and
you know, people think of a floodwater, but really it
turns into this like wave of and you can see
the videos of this just this like sludge slash. It's
almost like a slow moving avalanche of just muck, and
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it destroys their whole Town's lake Lore, which is where
Dirty Dancing was filmed. I've actually spent time there. It's
near Ashville. So if you know the movie Dirty Dancing,
that hole you know where they're swimming, and the resort
that they are in that's actually in North Carolina and in
the Ashville area. And there's a little downtown that the
downtown's gone. I mean, there are whole towns and we're
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just beginning to find out the devastation of this, but
there are whole towns Clay that no longer exist. I mean,
not massive cities, but there are you know, little town
centers in this area, and there's I think everyone says,
I don't think Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina is
up to the task at all.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I think he got caught completely unaware. I think that
the Biden Harris administration is not going to feel as
urgent to deal with this as they might otherwise because
of the demographics of the air it's largely read Asheville
is actually very Democrat, but the surrounding area is very red.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Eastern Tennessee is very red. Yes, and this is where
there's there's nothing.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I mean, you need people to be able to clear
these roads, turn on the electricity, get the cell towers operational,
get food to people, get medicine to people, you know,
get generators in place. Ronda Santis has been what's phenomenal
at this when they had a big hurricane, what was
it over a year ago? And you know this time around,
Florida's always prepared. We'll see how they can handle this.
(08:08):
In North Carolina. We'll have Marsha Blackburn joining talk about
it from the Tennessee perspective.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Look, this caught me by surprise. I was on the
road Friday and I got a text message from one
of the assistant football coaches of East Tennessee State University
who said they were trying to drive to the Citadel
in Charleston to go play a football game, and every
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one of the roads was flooded and they were trapped
on their team bus and they were going to have
to sleep overnight on the team buses because there was
such chaos all over that area. You can imagine East Tennessee.
You're trying to drive through much of this buck I
forty I know many of you out there because I
(08:54):
forty traversus the entire country have been on this interstate.
There are I'm not I looked at pictures and I
couldn't believe it. There are pictures of the interstate where
huge portions of the interstate have just collapsed into basic
mud slides. I mean, we're not talking about there are
a lot of places that are still underwater. To your point,
(09:14):
small towns completely wiped out by this flooding and these
mudslides and everything else. But we're talking about a major
United States interstate that is probably going to be inoperable
for months. In terms of people being able to drive
from the state of Tennessee where I am, into North Carolina,
through the mountains and through those areas, beautiful, incredible people,
(09:37):
You're not going to be able to get there at all.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
You're going to hear a lot of running cover for Biden,
because running cover for Biden right now is running cover
for Kamala about how you shouldn't make hurricanes a political issue.
Where this is, you know, we should all come together
first of all, as we know, Democrats have always made
any disaster and opportunity for them to run whatever political
(10:01):
playbook that they want. And this is where I think
it is not just a fair game. I think it
is necessary to point out that we have a president
who is not really in charge, doesn't really know where
he is, has to take naps throughout the day, is
completely incapable of delegating and leading an effective response on this,
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and so the response is going to be slow, and
the media is not going to want to cover it
because right now they know, first of all, North Carolina
is a state that is in play, and they know
that this should be a massive federal response. You see
Ron dea Santis mobilized air National Guard assets out of
Florida right away, right away, doing air drops, rescue operations,
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getting people's supplies, and from the Biden team. So far,
what have we seen Kamala with a staged photo on
a plane where she has headphones not plugged into anything
and a blank piece of paper in front of her,
like she's really doing the work.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, and again, I want to open up phone lines
because some of you may actually need real help and
I want you to be able to tell us what's
going on in your communities. I also understand many phone
lines are down, many of you may not be able
to have any ability to get in touch with anyone.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
That is a major issue.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It sounds like there are going to be many, many
casualties from this storm that we still don't know about.
I know there was a Tennessee hospital that basically was
underwater that they had to air evacuate the patients from Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, the mountainous region of Georgia.
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This is an area filled with salt of the earth,
people that look out for each other. I've spent a
lot of time there. It's obviously I live in the
state that's impacted here, and the federal government has completely
failed in its ability to help these people. And the
picture of Kamala with no nothing written on a piece
(12:02):
of paper in front of her and the ear pieces
in without it being connected to a phone buck it
evoked if you remember the Hurricane Katrina response, George W.
Bush was savaged for saying he flew over the area
in Air Force one and kind of looked down. Kabala
and Biden haven't even been able or willing to fly
(12:23):
over the region. They have shown zero concern. And it's
now this happened on Friday, Thursday, and Friday, we're now
talking about Monday.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
You have a tremendous amount of military assets in North
Carolina and people are pointing out, you know, forty billion here,
sixty billion there for Ukraine. It's like we're not even
supposed to notice this Okay, we have military assets in
North Carolina and surrounding states, but particularly in North Carolina,
are they using the command and control and logistics and
(12:53):
an air cap You can't drive to a lot of
these places, right There's no roadways to go on, so
air wing really matters a lot, and particular cularly rotary right,
vertical takeof vertical landing. Where's Biden giving a speech talking
about what's going on here? I mean, we really just
is he awake? Is he at the beach? We don't
even know. Kamala is a joke. I mean, this is
they're going to lose the election. Just put that aside
(13:15):
for a second. But Kamala is a preposterous political figure
and everyone can see that. Who's not delusional. But right
now we actually need somebody who knows what they're doing.
I don't think that people in charge know what they're
doing at all. We're going to take some of your calls.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
We've got a lot of people calling in from those
affected regions. We want to hear what you are seeing
and what you believe the people in your community need.
Will take some of your calls all throughout the course
of the program. As Buck mentioned, we're going to be
joined by Senator Marshall Blackburn at two thirty from Tennessee,
who can tell us what the latest is on the
ground so far as she sees it, and whether the
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federal government is responding as they should be. In the meantime,
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Speaker 6 (15:27):
Welcome back in team. We're talking here about the big
hurricane at hit. We're also going to get in some
of the other news that came in from over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
We can start with.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Some of our callers here, Scott in East Tennessee. Scott,
tell us about your area.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
What are you seeing, Hey, buddy, Thank you guys for
taking my call. I live in the East Tennessee, southwest Virginia.
That's another area that you know, people doesn't realize God hit.
I'm around the Bristol, Johnson City Kingsport area. Man, it's
like a bomb went off here. We have complete towns
(16:02):
without power. We have bridges washed away, interstates washed away.
The hospital that you referenced was I think in either
Irwin or Unicoy. They're still pulling bodies out. I have
coworkers who have neighbors whose houses have been washed away.
It has been an absolute complete disaster here. You know, Luckily,
(16:25):
some of the folks in the neighboring communities, the fire departments,
first responders, people are coming together. They're handing out water,
helping people. But it has been a nightmare, and you know,
I don't think the national level really understands what kind
of devastation has been happening here. Our dams are breaking,
(16:48):
we have the Nolachucky River, for example, is probably ten
to possibly twenty feet above flood level stages. It's just
been a nightmare, and we in this area. The federal government.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Needs to understand exactly how bad this is because in
the area that we are in, we are not used
to this kind of devastation from her.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You've never seen anything like this in your life in
East Tennessee.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
No, I am over fifty years old, and I have
never seen anything like this in my entire life.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
It is literally like a.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Bomb has just exploded. I mean you have massive trees
over on houses. I mean power lines down everywhere. We've
had hundreds of thousands of people without power. I was
without power for four days. We have no water, we
have no running water. We've had to throw away all
of our food. It's just it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
And nothing from the federal government that you have seen.
Biden says, they're doing everything.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
No, we haven't seen anything. Our own little town that
I live in is not even telling us you know
why we don't have any water, uh and uh so forth.
So I don't know, you know, Thank.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You for Thank you for the update. We're gonna keep
taking calls buck when we come back.
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis bought Sexton show. A lot
of chaos going on right now, and many of you
wanting to weigh in with what's taking place in the
wake of this hurricane in the Appalachian region, whether it's Georgia,
South Carolina, Tennessee, or North Carolina. Lots of places, Alex
in Knoxville, Tennessee, you are trying. You're on the city
(19:22):
council there. Uh, Knoxville is in East Tennessee, but still
a pretty good distance from Bristol. I think Knoxville is okay,
but y'all are trying to make a difference. What can
you tell us about what you're doing, Alex Clay.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
I'm I'm part of the city council in the town
of Farragut on the west side of Knoxville. Yeah, and
I'm working with our four local schools in the town
of Farragut, and we're gonna coordinate a drive where we
can fill up semi truck trailers with non perishble items, water,
you know, uh, baby supplies, paper towels, disinfectants, and so
(19:58):
on. One the local radio stations here in Knoxville is doing
that right now, and the company that supplied them with
the trailers said, man, we have we got eighty trailers.
If you need one, you just tell us where to
drop it off. So we're we're in that planning stage
right now, and I just want to let the community
know and and let anybody know. You know, hey, if
(20:20):
you wanna, you want to help us put it together,
if you want it, if you gotta, Maybe you've got
a warehouse full of supplies and you want to bring them.
If you don't mind, I'd like to give give your
listeners my email address, and they can email me if
they have if they want to help or if they
want to get however they want to get involved.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, for sure, what have you got for us? What's
the email address right.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
It's A C A I N at the Townoffarragut dot
O R G. So that's uh, Farragut is.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
F A R R A G U T.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
And my my business email is Alex at TriStar Executives
Solutions dot com. And like I said, we're trying to
do as best we can for our fellow citizens. Up
in the northeast corner in Knoxville, we got a lot
of rain and we're seeing some of the residual from
all the water flowing flowing from the east down into
(21:11):
the Tennessee River. But we're not we were not impacted
anywhere near what Green County, Unicoy County, Union County, Newport,
that area.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Guys.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
I responded down to Katrina after Hurricane Katrina and the
Louisiana and worked for a security contractor. And yeah, I
was there three days later and FEMA was on the
ground running. I have not seen anything from the federal
government here in East Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, thank you for what you're doing Buck.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
This is thank you for the call, and we'll put
up the links on clayanbuck dot com for a lot
of people out there. If you want to email us,
let us know what we can do to help out.
We got a lot of people reaching out that want
to tell us their stories. But this is what's happening.
The government's not showing up. Individual are taking it on themselves. Buck,
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private companies, everybody out there to do what they can.
Bobby called in right now Boone, North Carolina, beautiful area
of the country. You say you just moved from Florida.
What was it like in Boone?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I'll tell you what. I've probably been through a thousand hurricanes,
and this is the worst I've ever been through. I
would say I would agree with your last caller. I
haven't seen a FEMA truck or a government truck or
anything out here. When it's down in Florida, it's two days.
You got people down there all the time. But the
devastation you see on TV is nothing compared to what's
(22:37):
actually happening on the ground. So keep posting those links,
and anybody that can help out or is willing to
help out, call in, give your information and I just
wanted to say that, being from Florida, this is the
worst thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You're in Boone, North Carolina. I believe app State is
in Boone, North Carolina. Right was the university to your
extent impacted? What is the Boone, North Carolina community look
like for people who can't see it?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
What? What is the what are your visuals about?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
A foot of mud everywhere which is slowly going down?
Our local the local walmart is going to be closed
for at least a month. The university seems to have
fared pretty well. They're opening up the gym and a
lot of other like community centers around the school, so
you can drop off supplies if you need to go,
if you want to, you know, go and help out
in the Boon area. Go to app States. The gymnasiums open.
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They have some other places where you can drop off water,
you know, nonperisonal things like that. Anything that anything that
can help right now give the people of this area
could use it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I mean, you know, there was just there there was
a concern at one point that the Waterville Dam and
the Lake Lore Dam were We're going to fail, and
damn failure of that kind, it would be catastrophic. I mean,
given that there's a tremendous flooding, the dams have held.
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But I mean, just to give everyone a sense of
how when you're talking about the kind of flooding that
can bring down a major dam and what that would
do to the area. I mean, as bad as this is,
there was even a concern that it could be worse.
We got someone else calling it from the area.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, this is in Georgia. I mean again, you've heard
from Tennessee, North Carolina. Now in Georgia. All communities and
states impacted in a massive way. Buck Augusta, Georgia, where
the Masters are. I saw the Masters put out a
statement saying that their course to a large extent, had
been devastated. For those of you out there who watch
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that tournament every April, Jackson, what does Augusta, Georgia look like?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You're calling from there right now?
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Absolutely, thank y'all for taking my call. It's as if
a bomb has went off in Augusta, Georgia. There are
trees down everywhere. A Guesst National Parking Lot, for instance,
I notice as over fifty trees that are uprooted, all
up down Berkmann Road. All the power lines are down.
Houses just devastated with multiple trees slicing through their homes. Uh.
(25:10):
You know, reports from different people that are saying that,
you know, there are people that have been are you know,
trapped in their homes and can't get out, and we're
just not we're not seeing any type of response.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You know, we're starting, Biden said, the federal government's doing everything,
but this is a third different state. Now you're not
seeing anything from the federal government.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Not not anything from the federal government. You know, we're
sitting here. We've got Fort eilandhowerth that's right here in Augusta,
Georgie as well, and you know they're supposedly without power
as well. You know, we're a major medical district as
well for our region here on the Savannah River area,
and it's just it's just terrible and we I mean,
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we need as many you know, power trucks and power
companies and to start to restore that. They were all
apparently shipped to Atlanta because the storm was supposed to
track to Atlanta area, but you know, it came at
a direct hit for Augusta. And I have family that
lives in South Georgia down to Thomasville, Georgia, and they
(26:19):
barely got the brunt of it at all. It flew
straight through, came straight onto Augusta, and we sat here
under ninety mile an hour winds and with these pine trees,
they snapped them left, right and center. And it's just
it's just crazy to.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Hear Clay that was the thing with Carrie's sister's house. Again.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I've seen the videos, so I mean, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Like the whole forest came down. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
I mean there's just trees down everywhere on the house,
in the road, on each other, in the yard. I mean,
and big trees right like we're talking like just whole
trees is flattened by this hurricane. And true, you know,
create a tremendous hazard during the storm, but the hazards
continue now.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
People can't get out.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Donald Trump posted, We're heading to Valdosta, Georgia for those
of you who don't know, that's southern Georgia, in order
to pay respects. Bring lots of relief material, fuel, equipment, water,
other things to the state of Georgia. Many politicians, law
enforcement will be there. They're working very hard. He also
says I was going to stop in North Carolina as well.
(27:29):
We have a lot of supplies for them. Access and
communication now restricted. We want to make sure local emergency
management able to focus on helping the people most affected,
not being concerned with me. Again, this is a statement
from Trump. I'll be there shortly. Don't like the reports
I'm getting about the federal government and the Democrat governor
of the state going out of their way not to
(27:51):
help people in Republican areas. That is from Donald Trump
in the last hour. And we are taking a lot
of your calls. Bradley and Elizabethton, Tennessee, devastated area. You
say no cell service, You had to go to a
different county in order to call us and tell us
(28:12):
about what you're seeing.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Is Bradley there, can you hear me?
Speaker 8 (28:20):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Hello, Yeah, we got you. Yeah, Bradley, what can you
tell us about what you're seeing?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (28:26):
So I actually had to leave the house this morning
to work in Bristol, and I'm on the side of
the highway between Bristol Elizabethan. There is no cell phone
coverage in Elizabethan, very little water. It's being rashed towards
areas of the community. The treatment plant flooded, so there's
very little water.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
The upper areas with.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
We may be losing him.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
He's trying to call in and tell us about how
things are going. Uh see if you can get him
back on the phone. Mark also near Asheville, North Carolina,
retired firefighter. He says he's in del Rio, Tennessee. For
those of you don't know, North Carolina, Tennessee. Right there, Ashville,
right across the border. This is the area really impacted.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I'm sure you've seen a lot of things in your
career as a retired fire firefighter. Have you ever seen
anything like what you are seeing right now?
Speaker 11 (29:17):
No, not like this. I mean I grew up in
the Northeast and we've been through many, many hurricanes. Been
in the fire service since I was the kids, so
I mean we've worked them. I was a career firefighter.
And yeah, it's just it's you have to see it.
I mean it is. It is just destroyed infrastructure. We
(29:37):
got multiple power lines just down, I mean poles ripped
out the river. The force of this river from what
I was told by the fire key here that it
came up twenty eight feet above flood levels.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
It literally swept houses right off their foundations. They're just gone.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Are you seeing a federal government response? Are you seeing
a lot of people Biden says they're doing everything. Are
the people getting every help they could No.
Speaker 11 (30:09):
I mean, we got tree crews out here trying to
clear trees so that they can get new power poles
put in. There's no water in most of the towns
around here. There's just no water. I'm off of well water.
And again I'm prepared because I grew up in the Northeast.
I know how this works. We're running off a generator.
So you got people like me that are supplying water
(30:30):
to people. I know people are running water over to
Hot Springs, North Carolina. You know, they're filling up these
big two hundred and seventy gallon tanks, putting them in
trucks and just hauling them over there to try to
give them water. But I have seen no federal anything
out here. You know, it's just it's just people helping people.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
You know.
Speaker 11 (30:48):
The towns are certainly doing their part, and the linemen,
I mean they're up all night working to try to
restore power and it's just gonna take days. And as
I was telling them the other guy. You know, the
trains around here have literally been washed out, so the
cargo trains that used to run through here, they're not
going to be moving any cargo through here either.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
We're gonna keep taking calls all throughout this show, Bock,
because I think it's important for us to shine a
light when mini media are not. We know a lot
of people listen to us who are in congressional offices,
who are in the government and might be able to
help both state, federal, whatever else. Eight hundred and two
A two two eight A two. It sounds like this
is truly an unprecedented storm for people in Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia,
(31:36):
and South Carolina, that entire region, maybe parts of Virginia
as well.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Yeah, we're just beginning to get a sense of I
think the scale of the disaster, and tragically the loss
of life is going up with every passing hour as well.
I mean, this is one of the worst hurricanes that
we've seen in a very long time. And as I
was telling you, Carrie's sister lives round the outskirts of
Asheville in the middle of the disaster and went out
(32:01):
their cell phone went out, but you know, my father
in law was able to reach them first thing in
the morning the day after the storm using rapid radios.
They've got their rapid radios and their modern day walkie talkies.
And you know what, I just because my father in
law's there and he's trying to help with the disaster
and how to patch things up at the house. Here
he is talking about how he used the radios and
(32:23):
how effective they were.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
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lost all cell service and internet. We were able to
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during a very challenging time. Every family shared them.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
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(33:22):
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Speaker 2 (34:23):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
We're going to be talking about the Hurricane Helene disaster
throughout the show, and we take some of your calls
the next hour on this as well. There's a lot
of news that we also want to get to today,
so we're going to be continue to cover that. But
switch Gear is a little bit one thing.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Clay.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
We had the breaking news on Friday that it was
believed and not confirmed that Hassan Nasralla, the secretary general,
the leader, the top guy of the terrorist group Hasblah,
was killed in an Israeli airstrike that was confirmed over
the weekend. Got Inezruela. This guy's been running Hesbela since
(35:02):
nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, and there was someone
who took over. Do you see the Israelis got him too. Yeah,
so this is a job you don't particularly want to have.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
You've had two CEOs of the Hesbula Terror Corporation taken
out by Israeli strikes in forty eight hours. Israel is
now in the beginning stages of some kind of military
incursion up in the North.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
So we'll continue to look at that.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
But Israel has just decided the gloves come off and
their enemies will be dealt with in whatever way the
Israelis think is most efficient to take them off the battlefield.
So I'm I did not know that we would waken up.
I mean, this is because it's overseas a story that's
getting a less attention because of what's going on here
(35:54):
at home. But I would just say, Clay, that's a
big that's a big deal. That's something that you would
not have expected to happen, and now.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Here we are. So we'll get into that. We've also
got more.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
In the whole presidential election that is coming up, but
I think is important for us to get to today. Clay,
I've got some good news. I think we'd use a
little a little good news right now. You know that
for the first time in decades. According to Gallup, more
Americans are identifying as Republican than Democrat five percent.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I did see that, and actually the interesting part about
that is it's very predictive historically for how the overall
national popular vote is going to look, which would be
very positive for Donald Trump. We'll talk about that. We'll
continue to take your call. Surrounding Hurricane Helene and all
of the impact from so many different states. Also buck
one more challenge out there. There may be a doc
(36:50):
worker strike on the East Coast coming up, potentially starting tomorrow,
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show thirty
six days until the election. Next week will be exactly
five weeks out. We will also be crossing the Rubicon Bucks,
so to speak, where we'll be able to say next
month is the official election. It is here. There is
(00:23):
a lot going on. I was with Donald Trump on
Saturday night at the Georgia Alabama football game. Met a
lot of our listeners all over the place from Georgia
and Alabama. Heck of a scene, Buck, The stadium went
absolutely bonkers for Donald Trump. It's good to be out
(00:45):
in the public. I know it was Alabama, but the
enthusiasm that I saw everywhere for Trump surrounding this game
with him attending there again, Georgia is a battleground state.
It emphasized and emphasized for me that he is going
to win the state of Georgia, and all of you
out there listening in the state of Georgia need to
(01:07):
make sure you are going out, you were voting, and
you were going to make that happen. We'll talk a
little bit about that, the continued attacks that Israel is
putting on Hesbola in the Middle East, but we have
to start with a story that is unfortunately not receiving
anywhere near the attention that it should be, and that
is the absolute devastation that has occurred in East Tennessee,
(01:32):
Western North Carolina, the mountainous region of South Carolina. For
those of you that are not familiar with that area
of the country, I know we have a lot of
you who usually listen. We may have some of you
listening to us on the radio, and because you don't
have any other battery powered radios can be so important.
(01:52):
I'm going to talk to Buck because his sister in
law is in the middle of all of this. I'm
gonna ask for you eight hundred to eight to two
eight eight two if you are in that impacted region,
if you're in East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, the mountainous
areas of South Carolina, where many people are still stranded,
(02:13):
where our federal government is completely failing and taking care
of these people. I'm gonna get Buck to tell you
his own family situation because I experienced a little bit
of it, and I'll talk about it as well. But
I want to play Joe Biden being asked about the
federal government's response to the impact of the hurricane fallout
(02:34):
in this region in the same weekend where we're giving
billions and billions of dollars more to Ukraine. This feels
very much like America. Last kind of thinking. Biden is
asked about what he can do for the people in
this region, all over the Appalachian area, and he said,
federal government's done everything that it can. It's disgraceful, it's disgusting,
(02:57):
it's indefensible. But I want you to hear it from
our commander chief.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You aren't. Yes, it's tragic.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
As a matter of fact, we're trying to get to
exact numbers my FEMA advisors on the ground in Florida
right now. There's a distinction between the numbers that famous
used and the ones that used by.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
By the locals.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So it's uh, it really is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You saw the photographs. It's stunny.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
It's so many.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's such a wide area, and we've we've given them
all of the everything that we have ram the ground
ahead of time, so we're working hard.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Are there any more resources the federal governments have been
given them?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
No, we've given them. We have true planned a significant
amount of it, even though they didn't.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Ask for yet.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Hadn't asked for that.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, that is not what is on the ground.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That's why I want to open up the phones and
let people call in and tell us what they are seeing. Buck,
your sister in law is in the Ashville area. I
know your family has been dealing with this directly. I'll
tell you a story that I know. But from your perspective,
you've been using these rapid radios to communicate. Just tell
us what your own family is dealing with right now
(04:10):
and has seen.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
My sister in law, her husband and UH and their
their little baby boy.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They had to shelter in place.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
They're in the Asheville area, kind of outside outside Ashville
little ways.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And I mean I've seen video.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Look Friday night, much of the night of e spend
trying to calm carry down. It wasn't until we figured
out we could use their rapid radios. We actually use
those on Saturday for a family to be able to communicate.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So came in incredibly handy. I know the sound cell.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Phones are all down and many people still can't be contacted.
This is directly like you were using them.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Yeah, they were there, my so I made sure that
my father in law had one and Carrie's sister had
one and they were able to communicate via rapid radios
and otherwise we were sitting around thee nerver was totally down,
power down. Look, they were sheltering in place, trees. I've
seen video of it and talk to them and we've
been checking in with them, And I'm just sharing this
(05:07):
because I'm sure a lot of people in the area
had a similar situation. First of all, I'm down here
in Florida, and Florida is everyone here knows you can
hit by hurricanes, and that doesn't mean that the devastation
is any less, but you're prepared and you have some idea.
No one was talking about this hitting really what Appalachia
you could say, I mean hitting this corner of well,
(05:30):
it was really Georgia, the greater Atlanta area, North Carolina,
eastern Tennessee and just dumping so much water. So as
Carrie's sister and family were sheltering in place, trees just
started going down everywhere. And when you see the video
of this, you have to remember there's one thing which
happened to them, which is a tree came down in
the house and actually smashed through the roof and got
(05:53):
down they now have a kind of a skylight almost
in the kitchen that's not supposed to be there. I
mean it's open air. Tree just went right through. So
they're talking about a large, heavy tree and they were
home when that happened. You can imagine, oh, I'm good,
I'm safe. I'm here during the hurricane, and then a
tree goes through the kitchen. Okay, so that was very unsettling.
They had they do have a basement. They were able
to get to the basement. But what they also realize
(06:15):
is as the trees are all going down, now you
can't get out. You've got power lines coming down, you
have no power, you have no communications.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Other than the rapid radios.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
They also the amount of damage from mud slides, and
you know, people think of a floodwater, but really it
turns into this like wave of and you can see
the videos of this just this like sludge slash. It's
almost like a slow moving avalanche of just muck, and
(06:45):
it destroys their whole Town's lake Lore, which is where
Dirty Dancing was filmed. I've actually spent time there. It's
near Ashville. So if you know the movie Dirty Dancing,
that hole you know where they're swimming, and the resort
that they are in that's actually in North Carolina and in
the Ashville area. And there's a little downtown that the
downtown's gone. I mean, there are whole towns and we're
(07:07):
just beginning to find out the devastation of this, but
there are whole towns Clay that no longer exist. I mean,
not massive cities, but there are you know, little town
centers in this area, and there's I think everyone says,
I don't think Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina is
up to the task at all.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I think he got caught completely unaware. I think that
the Biden Harris administration is not going to feel as
urgent to deal with this as they might otherwise because
of the demographics of the air it's largely read Asheville
is actually very Democrat, but the surrounding area is very red.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Eastern Tennessee is very red. Yes, and this is where
there's there's nothing.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I mean, you need people to be able to clear
these roads, turn on the electricity, get the cell towers operational,
get food to people, get medicine to people, you know,
get generators in place. Ronda Santis has been what's phenomenal
at this when they had a big hurricane, what was
it over a year ago? And you know this time around,
Florida's always prepared. We'll see how they can handle this.
(08:08):
In North Carolina. We'll have Marsha Blackburn joining talk about
it from the Tennessee perspective.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Look, this caught me by surprise. I was on the
road Friday and I got a text message from one
of the assistant football coaches of East Tennessee State University
who said they were trying to drive to the Citadel
in Charleston to go play a football game, and every
(08:34):
one of the roads was flooded and they were trapped
on their team bus and they were going to have
to sleep overnight on the team buses because there was
such chaos all over that area. You can imagine East Tennessee.
You're trying to drive through much of this buck I
forty I know many of you out there because I
(08:54):
forty traversus the entire country have been on this interstate.
There are I'm not I looked at pictures and I
couldn't believe it. There are pictures of the interstate where
huge portions of the interstate have just collapsed into basic
mud slides. I mean, we're not talking about there are
a lot of places that are still underwater. To your point,
(09:14):
small towns completely wiped out by this flooding and these
mudslides and everything else. But we're talking about a major
United States interstate that is probably going to be inoperable
for months. In terms of people being able to drive
from the state of Tennessee where I am, into North Carolina,
through the mountains and through those areas, beautiful, incredible people,
(09:37):
You're not going to be able to get there at all.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
You're going to hear a lot of running cover for Biden,
because running cover for Biden right now is running cover
for Kamala about how you shouldn't make hurricanes a political issue.
Where this is, you know, we should all come together
first of all, as we know, Democrats have always made
any disaster and opportunity for them to run whatever political
(10:01):
playbook that they want. And this is where I think
it is not just a fair game. I think it
is necessary to point out that we have a president
who is not really in charge, doesn't really know where
he is, has to take naps throughout the day, is
completely incapable of delegating and leading an effective response on this,
(10:23):
and so the response is going to be slow, and
the media is not going to want to cover it
because right now they know, first of all, North Carolina
is a state that is in play, and they know
that this should be a massive federal response. You see
Ron dea Santis mobilized air National Guard assets out of
Florida right away, right away, doing air drops, rescue operations,
(10:45):
getting people's supplies, and from the Biden team. So far,
what have we seen Kamala with a staged photo on
a plane where she has headphones not plugged into anything
and a blank piece of paper in front of her,
like she's really doing the work.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, and again, I want to open up phone lines
because some of you may actually need real help and
I want you to be able to tell us what's
going on in your communities. I also understand many phone
lines are down, many of you may not be able
to have any ability to get in touch with anyone.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
That is a major issue.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It sounds like there are going to be many, many
casualties from this storm that we still don't know about.
I know there was a Tennessee hospital that basically was
underwater that they had to air evacuate the patients from Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, the mountainous region of Georgia.
(11:39):
This is an area filled with salt of the earth,
people that look out for each other. I've spent a
lot of time there. It's obviously I live in the
state that's impacted here, and the federal government has completely
failed in its ability to help these people. And the
picture of Kamala with no nothing written on a piece
(12:02):
of paper in front of her and the ear pieces
in without it being connected to a phone buck it
evoked if you remember the Hurricane Katrina response, George W.
Bush was savaged for saying he flew over the area
in Air Force one and kind of looked down. Kabala
and Biden haven't even been able or willing to fly
(12:23):
over the region. They have shown zero concern. And it's
now this happened on Friday, Thursday, and Friday, we're now
talking about Monday.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
You have a tremendous amount of military assets in North
Carolina and people are pointing out, you know, forty billion here,
sixty billion there for Ukraine. It's like we're not even
supposed to notice this Okay, we have military assets in
North Carolina and surrounding states, but particularly in North Carolina,
are they using the command and control and logistics and
(12:53):
an air cap You can't drive to a lot of
these places, right There's no roadways to go on, so
air wing really matters a lot, and particular cularly rotary right,
vertical takeof vertical landing. Where's Biden giving a speech talking
about what's going on here? I mean, we really just
is he awake? Is he at the beach? We don't
even know. Kamala is a joke. I mean, this is
they're going to lose the election. Just put that aside
(13:15):
for a second. But Kamala is a preposterous political figure
and everyone can see that. Who's not delusional. But right
now we actually need somebody who knows what they're doing.
I don't think that people in charge know what they're
doing at all. We're going to take some of your calls.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
We've got a lot of people calling in from those
affected regions. We want to hear what you are seeing
and what you believe the people in your community need.
Will take some of your calls all throughout the course
of the program. As Buck mentioned, we're going to be
joined by Senator Marshall Blackburn at two thirty from Tennessee,
who can tell us what the latest is on the
ground so far as she sees it, and whether the
(13:47):
federal government is responding as they should be. In the meantime,
speaking of places that have been in chaos for a
long time, good news Israel believes that's eliminated around thirty
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Speaker 6 (15:27):
Welcome back in team. We're talking here about the big
hurricane at hit. We're also going to get in some
of the other news that came in from over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
We can start with.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Some of our callers here, Scott in East Tennessee. Scott,
tell us about your area.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
What are you seeing, Hey, buddy, Thank you guys for
taking my call. I live in the East Tennessee, southwest Virginia.
That's another area that you know, people doesn't realize God hit.
I'm around the Bristol, Johnson City Kingsport area. Man, it's
like a bomb went off here. We have complete towns
(16:02):
without power. We have bridges washed away, interstates washed away.
The hospital that you referenced was I think in either
Irwin or Unicoy. They're still pulling bodies out. I have
coworkers who have neighbors whose houses have been washed away.
It has been an absolute complete disaster here. You know, Luckily,
(16:25):
some of the folks in the neighboring communities, the fire departments,
first responders, people are coming together. They're handing out water,
helping people. But it has been a nightmare, and you know,
I don't think the national level really understands what kind
of devastation has been happening here. Our dams are breaking,
(16:48):
we have the Nolachucky River, for example, is probably ten
to possibly twenty feet above flood level stages. It's just
been a nightmare, and we in this area. The federal government.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Needs to understand exactly how bad this is because in
the area that we are in, we are not used
to this kind of devastation from her.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You've never seen anything like this in your life in
East Tennessee.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
No, I am over fifty years old, and I have
never seen anything like this in my entire life.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
It is literally like a.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Bomb has just exploded. I mean you have massive trees
over on houses. I mean power lines down everywhere. We've
had hundreds of thousands of people without power. I was
without power for four days. We have no water, we
have no running water. We've had to throw away all
of our food. It's just it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
And nothing from the federal government that you have seen.
Biden says, they're doing everything.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
No, we haven't seen anything. Our own little town that
I live in is not even telling us you know
why we don't have any water, uh and uh so forth.
So I don't know, you know, Thank.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You for Thank you for the update. We're gonna keep
taking calls buck when we come back.
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis bought Sexton show. A lot
of chaos going on right now, and many of you
wanting to weigh in with what's taking place in the
wake of this hurricane in the Appalachian region, whether it's Georgia,
South Carolina, Tennessee, or North Carolina. Lots of places, Alex
in Knoxville, Tennessee, you are trying. You're on the city
(19:22):
council there. Uh, Knoxville is in East Tennessee, but still
a pretty good distance from Bristol. I think Knoxville is okay,
but y'all are trying to make a difference. What can
you tell us about what you're doing, Alex Clay.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
I'm I'm part of the city council in the town
of Farragut on the west side of Knoxville. Yeah, and
I'm working with our four local schools in the town
of Farragut, and we're gonna coordinate a drive where we
can fill up semi truck trailers with non perishble items, water,
you know, uh, baby supplies, paper towels, disinfectants, and so
(19:58):
on. One the local radio stations here in Knoxville is doing
that right now, and the company that supplied them with
the trailers said, man, we have we got eighty trailers.
If you need one, you just tell us where to
drop it off. So we're we're in that planning stage
right now, and I just want to let the community
know and and let anybody know. You know, hey, if
(20:20):
you wanna, you want to help us put it together,
if you want it, if you gotta, Maybe you've got
a warehouse full of supplies and you want to bring them.
If you don't mind, I'd like to give give your
listeners my email address, and they can email me if
they have if they want to help or if they
want to get however they want to get involved.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, for sure, what have you got for us? What's
the email address right.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
It's A C A I N at the Townoffarragut dot
O R G. So that's uh, Farragut is.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
F A R R A G U T.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
And my my business email is Alex at TriStar Executives
Solutions dot com. And like I said, we're trying to
do as best we can for our fellow citizens. Up
in the northeast corner in Knoxville, we got a lot
of rain and we're seeing some of the residual from
all the water flowing flowing from the east down into
(21:11):
the Tennessee River. But we're not we were not impacted
anywhere near what Green County, Unicoy County, Union County, Newport,
that area.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Guys.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
I responded down to Katrina after Hurricane Katrina and the
Louisiana and worked for a security contractor. And yeah, I
was there three days later and FEMA was on the
ground running. I have not seen anything from the federal
government here in East Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, thank you for what you're doing Buck.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
This is thank you for the call, and we'll put
up the links on clayanbuck dot com for a lot
of people out there. If you want to email us,
let us know what we can do to help out.
We got a lot of people reaching out that want
to tell us their stories. But this is what's happening.
The government's not showing up. Individual are taking it on themselves. Buck,
(22:02):
private companies, everybody out there to do what they can.
Bobby called in right now Boone, North Carolina, beautiful area
of the country. You say you just moved from Florida.
What was it like in Boone?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I'll tell you what. I've probably been through a thousand hurricanes,
and this is the worst I've ever been through. I
would say I would agree with your last caller. I
haven't seen a FEMA truck or a government truck or
anything out here. When it's down in Florida, it's two days.
You got people down there all the time. But the
devastation you see on TV is nothing compared to what's
(22:37):
actually happening on the ground. So keep posting those links,
and anybody that can help out or is willing to
help out, call in, give your information and I just
wanted to say that, being from Florida, this is the
worst thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You're in Boone, North Carolina. I believe app State is
in Boone, North Carolina. Right was the university to your
extent impacted? What is the Boone, North Carolina community look
like for people who can't see it?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
What? What is the what are your visuals about?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
A foot of mud everywhere which is slowly going down?
Our local the local walmart is going to be closed
for at least a month. The university seems to have
fared pretty well. They're opening up the gym and a
lot of other like community centers around the school, so
you can drop off supplies if you need to go,
if you want to, you know, go and help out
in the Boon area. Go to app States. The gymnasiums open.
(23:30):
They have some other places where you can drop off water,
you know, nonperisonal things like that. Anything that anything that
can help right now give the people of this area
could use it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I mean, you know, there was just there there was
a concern at one point that the Waterville Dam and
the Lake Lore Dam were We're going to fail, and
damn failure of that kind, it would be catastrophic. I mean,
given that there's a tremendous flooding, the dams have held.
(24:02):
But I mean, just to give everyone a sense of
how when you're talking about the kind of flooding that
can bring down a major dam and what that would
do to the area. I mean, as bad as this is,
there was even a concern that it could be worse.
We got someone else calling it from the area.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, this is in Georgia. I mean again, you've heard
from Tennessee, North Carolina. Now in Georgia. All communities and
states impacted in a massive way. Buck Augusta, Georgia, where
the Masters are. I saw the Masters put out a
statement saying that their course to a large extent, had
been devastated. For those of you out there who watch
(24:36):
that tournament every April, Jackson, what does Augusta, Georgia look like?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You're calling from there right now?
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Absolutely, thank y'all for taking my call. It's as if
a bomb has went off in Augusta, Georgia. There are
trees down everywhere. A Guesst National Parking Lot, for instance,
I notice as over fifty trees that are uprooted, all
up down Berkmann Road. All the power lines are down.
Houses just devastated with multiple trees slicing through their homes. Uh.
(25:10):
You know, reports from different people that are saying that,
you know, there are people that have been are you know,
trapped in their homes and can't get out, and we're
just not we're not seeing any type of response.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You know, we're starting, Biden said, the federal government's doing everything,
but this is a third different state. Now you're not
seeing anything from the federal government.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Not not anything from the federal government. You know, we're
sitting here. We've got Fort eilandhowerth that's right here in Augusta,
Georgie as well, and you know they're supposedly without power
as well. You know, we're a major medical district as
well for our region here on the Savannah River area,
and it's just it's just terrible and we I mean,
(25:56):
we need as many you know, power trucks and power
companies and to start to restore that. They were all
apparently shipped to Atlanta because the storm was supposed to
track to Atlanta area, but you know, it came at
a direct hit for Augusta. And I have family that
lives in South Georgia down to Thomasville, Georgia, and they
(26:19):
barely got the brunt of it at all. It flew
straight through, came straight onto Augusta, and we sat here
under ninety mile an hour winds and with these pine trees,
they snapped them left, right and center. And it's just
it's just crazy to.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Hear Clay that was the thing with Carrie's sister's house. Again.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I've seen the videos, so I mean, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Like the whole forest came down. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
I mean there's just trees down everywhere on the house,
in the road, on each other, in the yard. I mean,
and big trees right like we're talking like just whole
trees is flattened by this hurricane. And true, you know,
create a tremendous hazard during the storm, but the hazards
continue now.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
People can't get out.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Donald Trump posted, We're heading to Valdosta, Georgia for those
of you who don't know, that's southern Georgia, in order
to pay respects. Bring lots of relief material, fuel, equipment, water,
other things to the state of Georgia. Many politicians, law
enforcement will be there. They're working very hard. He also
says I was going to stop in North Carolina as well.
(27:29):
We have a lot of supplies for them. Access and
communication now restricted. We want to make sure local emergency
management able to focus on helping the people most affected,
not being concerned with me. Again, this is a statement
from Trump. I'll be there shortly. Don't like the reports
I'm getting about the federal government and the Democrat governor
of the state going out of their way not to
(27:51):
help people in Republican areas. That is from Donald Trump
in the last hour. And we are taking a lot
of your calls. Bradley and Elizabethton, Tennessee, devastated area. You
say no cell service, You had to go to a
different county in order to call us and tell us
(28:12):
about what you're seeing.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Is Bradley there, can you hear me?
Speaker 8 (28:20):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Hello, Yeah, we got you. Yeah, Bradley, what can you
tell us about what you're seeing?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (28:26):
So I actually had to leave the house this morning
to work in Bristol, and I'm on the side of
the highway between Bristol Elizabethan. There is no cell phone
coverage in Elizabethan, very little water. It's being rashed towards
areas of the community. The treatment plant flooded, so there's
very little water.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
The upper areas with.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
We may be losing him.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
He's trying to call in and tell us about how
things are going. Uh see if you can get him
back on the phone. Mark also near Asheville, North Carolina,
retired firefighter. He says he's in del Rio, Tennessee. For
those of you don't know, North Carolina, Tennessee. Right there, Ashville,
right across the border. This is the area really impacted.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I'm sure you've seen a lot of things in your
career as a retired fire firefighter. Have you ever seen
anything like what you are seeing right now?
Speaker 11 (29:17):
No, not like this. I mean I grew up in
the Northeast and we've been through many, many hurricanes. Been
in the fire service since I was the kids, so
I mean we've worked them. I was a career firefighter.
And yeah, it's just it's you have to see it.
I mean it is. It is just destroyed infrastructure. We
(29:37):
got multiple power lines just down, I mean poles ripped
out the river. The force of this river from what
I was told by the fire key here that it
came up twenty eight feet above flood levels.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
It literally swept houses right off their foundations. They're just gone.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Are you seeing a federal government response? Are you seeing
a lot of people Biden says they're doing everything. Are
the people getting every help they could No.
Speaker 11 (30:09):
I mean, we got tree crews out here trying to
clear trees so that they can get new power poles
put in. There's no water in most of the towns
around here. There's just no water. I'm off of well water.
And again I'm prepared because I grew up in the Northeast.
I know how this works. We're running off a generator.
So you got people like me that are supplying water
(30:30):
to people. I know people are running water over to
Hot Springs, North Carolina. You know, they're filling up these
big two hundred and seventy gallon tanks, putting them in
trucks and just hauling them over there to try to
give them water. But I have seen no federal anything
out here. You know, it's just it's just people helping people.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
You know.
Speaker 11 (30:48):
The towns are certainly doing their part, and the linemen,
I mean they're up all night working to try to
restore power and it's just gonna take days. And as
I was telling them the other guy. You know, the
trains around here have literally been washed out, so the
cargo trains that used to run through here, they're not
going to be moving any cargo through here either.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
We're gonna keep taking calls all throughout this show, Bock,
because I think it's important for us to shine a
light when mini media are not. We know a lot
of people listen to us who are in congressional offices,
who are in the government and might be able to
help both state, federal, whatever else. Eight hundred and two
A two two eight A two. It sounds like this
is truly an unprecedented storm for people in Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia,
(31:36):
and South Carolina, that entire region, maybe parts of Virginia
as well.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Yeah, we're just beginning to get a sense of I
think the scale of the disaster, and tragically the loss
of life is going up with every passing hour as well.
I mean, this is one of the worst hurricanes that
we've seen in a very long time. And as I
was telling you, Carrie's sister lives round the outskirts of
Asheville in the middle of the disaster and went out
(32:01):
their cell phone went out, but you know, my father
in law was able to reach them first thing in
the morning the day after the storm using rapid radios.
They've got their rapid radios and their modern day walkie talkies.
And you know what, I just because my father in
law's there and he's trying to help with the disaster
and how to patch things up at the house. Here
he is talking about how he used the radios and
(32:23):
how effective they were.
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Speaker 6 (34:25):
We're going to be talking about the Hurricane Helene disaster
throughout the show, and we take some of your calls
the next hour on this as well. There's a lot
of news that we also want to get to today,
so we're going to be continue to cover that. But
switch Gear is a little bit one thing.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Clay.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
We had the breaking news on Friday that it was
believed and not confirmed that Hassan Nasralla, the secretary general,
the leader, the top guy of the terrorist group Hasblah,
was killed in an Israeli airstrike that was confirmed over
the weekend. Got Inezruela. This guy's been running Hesbela since
(35:02):
nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, and there was someone
who took over. Do you see the Israelis got him too. Yeah,
so this is a job you don't particularly want to have.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
You've had two CEOs of the Hesbula Terror Corporation taken
out by Israeli strikes in forty eight hours. Israel is
now in the beginning stages of some kind of military
incursion up in the North.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
So we'll continue to look at that.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
But Israel has just decided the gloves come off and
their enemies will be dealt with in whatever way the
Israelis think is most efficient to take them off the battlefield.
So I'm I did not know that we would waken up.
I mean, this is because it's overseas a story that's
getting a less attention because of what's going on here
(35:54):
at home. But I would just say, Clay, that's a
big that's a big deal. That's something that you would
not have expected to happen, and now.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Here we are. So we'll get into that. We've also
got more.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
In the whole presidential election that is coming up, but
I think is important for us to get to today. Clay,
I've got some good news. I think we'd use a
little a little good news right now. You know that
for the first time in decades. According to Gallup, more
Americans are identifying as Republican than Democrat five percent.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I did see that, and actually the interesting part about
that is it's very predictive historically for how the overall
national popular vote is going to look, which would be
very positive for Donald Trump. We'll talk about that. We'll
continue to take your call. Surrounding Hurricane Helene and all
of the impact from so many different states. Also buck
one more challenge out there. There may be a doc
(36:50):
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