Bruce Noll and Linda Ilsemann were trapped in their remote mountain home for five days. About thirty trees uprooted by Hurricane Helene, which devastated the southeastern United States, have blocked any exit since Friday, September 27. “We were without water, without electricity, without Internet”confesses the seventy-year-old couple who lives in the Asheville region of North Carolina. They know they are lucky, since the flooding of the river and landslides have caused more than forty deaths in the county.
Finally released, they surrendered for the first time on Tuesday the 1stAhem October, in Asheville. All dressed in their Sunday best, with one goal: to get married that day. Just as they had planned, exactly fifty-six years after they met and then lost touch. The county officer cannot do this in town at the stop, but suggests finding a sworn officer online. So go rural Americans, brave in the face of adversity and always determined. “The local government is trying to help people, that’s good”confides Bruce Noll, who doubts that the management of the hurricane will have an electoral impact, like all those interviewed, busy rebuilding their community.
Unfortunately, in electoral campaigns there is reality on the ground and on the political battlefield, which needs an emblematic staging. Donald Trump quickly understood the benefit of taking advantage of the effects of this deadly hurricane that left more than one hundred and fifty dead and devastated, to everyone’s surprise, with its torrential rains three decisive states for the presidential elections: Florida, traditionally Republican, but especially Georgia. . and North Carolina, whose fate will be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes.
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The Republican candidate traveled to Georgia on Monday, September 30, to the small town of Valdosta, falsely claiming that the local governor could not communicate with the Biden administration. Regardless of the falsehood, the offensive had to be launched. “President Trump met with victims of Hurricane Helene, delivered relief supplies and offered his full support for recovery, as Kamala said. [Harris] has disappeared”, accused the Trump camp. “Missing in action”like a missing soldier. The conservative channel Fox News conveyed this message more effectively because, during this deadly weekend, the Democratic candidate was on the West Coast. METROme Harris attended a donor dinner in California and held a meeting in Las Vegas, the city of gambling and partying, far from the Appalachian Mountains that too often feel forgotten.
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