Hurricane Helene has left dozens dead and millions affected across the southern United States. But while communities in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina deal with flooding and destroyed property, FEMA still hasn't reached some of the hardest hit towns, like Asheville, North Carolina. Shouldn't the government have learned from the disasters in Maui and East Palestine?! Once again, it's up to We The People to step up and help our neighbors. Glenn speaks with Mercury One's J.P. Decker about what Mercury One is doing to make sure communities like Asheville are not abandoned.
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GLENN: What is happening in our country right now, in the southeast is in some places Katrina in Asheville, North Carolina, FEMA has not arrived.
They may make it today. The Red Cross has not arrived. They may make it today.
Mercury One will be on the ground, at with -- what -- time?
J.P.: We're hoping at around 4 o'clock today.
GLENN: 4 o'clock.
We'll object the ground in Asheville. We've chartered helicopters to bring in supplies.
Water, food, you know, and, I mean, it's -- it's really amazing, what's happening.
Benny Johnson is providing a couple of -- you know, a few pallets of water.
As well. And so it's just everybody coming together. And the government not doing their job.
J.P.: Yeah. Yeah. It was crazy over the weekend. We worked non-stop, to get just surmise. And what's crazy, that congressman --
GLENN: Wait a minute. I should introduce you. This is J.P. Decker. He's the executive director of Mercury One. Go ahead.
J.P.: Yeah, I reached out to Congressman Cory Mills because he helped us with some of the Haiti and then also Maui and Israel.
And I said, hey. Do you have helicopters? He said, I can get you two. And I said, great. Let's do it.
So he got us two helicopters. We're hoping to leave today from Florida to fly into Asheville. Actually have a contact on the ground in Asheville. He's a former Green Beret. Over the weekend, he lost all track of his wife and 3-year-old daughter. He was out of town, and found out what happened. Flew back. And ended up getting on a helicopter. Found them in the midst of, you know, all the instruction. And 100 other people that still hadn't been rescued.
It's happening because, one, government hasn't shown up still, like you said.
And yet again.
GLENN: How is that possible?
J.P.: That's what doesn't make sense. We've seen this already. Did we not learn from Maui? Did we not learn from east Palestine? Again.
GLENN: Our government. It's truly remarkable how they just are not -- it's like they don't care at all.
J.P.: No.
GLENN: And didn't Biden. We gave Ukraine all their money this weekend.
J.P.: Yeah, just this weekend.
Which is just -- you know, and now he's saying, well, we've given a lot already to help with the hurricanes. Well, no, you haven't given enough.
GLENN: My gosh.
J.P.: DeSantis. The Florida governor.
They were hit extremely hard. But they were prepped.
And, you know, we are helping in Florida in some of those small rural areas. And he said, you know what, I will send the National Guard in Florida to help.
So he's sending National Guard to help.
And that is just eye-opening to me.
With that, there's also in the mountains, there's still people that are missing.
Right now, they're saying roughly 600 are missing. And one of our other partners. Jack Brewer Foundation. He's up there, and he's been working with a lot of the veterans who are just living up in the mountains.
And they have nothing. Everything is gone.
And they're already living paycheck to paycheck. So he's helping provide water, food.
GLENN: That's crazy.
And did you read about the communications, Stu, that I thought it was Starlink, that Starlink? You know, they are putting Starlink in Georgia and everything else.
No. That's actually one of our partners, isn't it?
J.P.: Yeah. CBRC is one of the partners. They were the first in after the Lahaina fires, and they were the ones that got past the National Guard because they said, we have StarLinks.
And we will help you get your communications set up. Because the national guard had too many red tape to cut.
And so ITVRC (phonetic) was able to go in, set it up. And they're doing the same now in North Carolina. In Georgia. In Tennessee. And that's Mercury One. That is what we do.
When the government doesn't step in or they choose not to step in, we're there to restore the human spirit.
GLENN: And there is no reason, with all of the technology and all of the supplies and everything we have.
Our government is failing us, time and time again.
J.P.: Yeah.
GLENN: I mean, to have this going on, this weekend. And then give those billions of dollars to Ukraine, while you're not even where the -- where people are being lost, ambulances, are underwater.
Filled with people. They were trying to get to the hospital.
They're dead.
J.P.: Yeah.
GLENN: And nothing. What is this?
J.P.: These are our fellow Americans.
I mean, Americans. We're giving billions to a country, but yet, not our own Americans.
Not our own people.
And they are hurting.
They feel abandoned yet again from the government.
Yet again, we don't feel it's the government's job to do everything.
But in this case, they should be stepping in. We should be having the national guard there. And we should have FEMA there. We should have this being done.
But instead, Mercury One will step in and do it.
GLENN: So we want to thank all of our partners, everyone that is involved.
I assume this is going to cost a fortune.
J.P.: It is going to cost a fortune. And in Asheville alone, they are saying that for the next few weeks, hundreds of thousands will be without clean water. Hundreds of thousands, for weeks.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh. So if you want to make sure that water is there. Food is there.
We have partners on the ground. We will be in Asheville, by 4:00 this afternoon.
And there's no reason, why any American should feel helpless.
Not in today's world. Review if we want our government to do necessary, you know what, I would like a little notice, that they're just not going to show up at these things now.
But it means, we have to do more.
And this -- these are our own. This is our country.
If you can give, please, go to MercuryOne.org, is there a special place to donate?
J.P.: It's all up on the front page.
GLENN: Okay. Go there.
Go to MercuryOne.org. 100 percent of everything we raise goes to the cause.
So if you're donating now. And you're going for this hurricane are he leaf, every penny will go right to the cause.
So please, donate.
We help those who are already helping.
You can do it now. At MercuryOne.org.
This is going to be very expensive, but there are -- they are our citizens. They are our fellow Americans.
And we're going need to their help at some point.
We all have to start thinking like farmers.
You know, it's not happening to me now.
But it probably is going to happen to me, down the road.
Let's -- let's help each other.
Because in the coming weeks and months, there's no help that's coming. You know, America crashes. And we lose our dollar status.
Nobody is coming and airdropping food to the United States.
Nobody is -- nobody is coming to relieve us of all of our debts.
That's not going to happen.
Not going to happen. We have to depend on each other.
And that's one of the things that Mercury One has done really, really well. Is to find out who is the first in.
The last out.
Who spends the money, and gets the biggest bang for the buck?
And we've done this now for almost ten years. And we know who those people are.
You're reading about them. You just don't know, as a listener, that you've contributed to them.
That you are actually paying for what they're doing.
Please, join us.
At MercuryOne.org.
That's MercuryOne.org.
Thank you.