I wish we could help too.
Where is the news media on this? If it was a Republican president you can bet it would be on the news 24/7.
Interesting that you aren't seeing this on your news. It has pretty much been 24/7 here in Oregon. Even more coverage than our fires that are everywhere in these parts, and they get lots of coverage too. I don't get any of the news you have to pay for, so maybe they don't cover it. It seems like everyone I know pays for some sort of service. We get plenty of free stations like Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC and lots of PBS and religious channels, plus a bunch of newer ones like the CW, ION & TBD etc. All of the major channels with News reports have been covering the aftermath of those storms, including the fact that many are without power, food and water or shelter.
I am afraid the only way some people will get help, is if private citzens find a way to do it. There are so many disasters happening all at once that it is impossible for any agency to help everyone. Normally every state can send help in a disastor, but right now most states have no one to spare. In our state we have National Guard fighting fires and also trying to help the hospitals. Our local hospital has something like double the usual patients, even though they have again put off all non emergency medical procedures. They had to double the ICU beds by converting other parts of the hospital into another ICU just to deal with all of the un-vaccinated Covid patients. 104 of the 110 Covid patients in the hospital today were not vaccinated. The Doctors and nurses are beyond exhausted. If it wasn't bad enough that there aren't enough medical personnel to handle the current influx, they are also losing way too many of them to quarantine when they become infected with Covid themselves. At least one patient has died while waiting for an ICU bed and we seem to have about 2 to 5 people dying of Covid most every day. That is a lot in a city of about 20,000.
I really feel for those people who were hit by this latest storm. I was beginning to think maybe we should move away from this unrelenting drought, heat and fire, but no matter where you live, the weather will get you. The weather here is completely different from what you could expect in the past, but maybe that is true every where. We were without power and the roads were all blocked for a little over a week after a bad storm in February 2019, but I am just thankful it was winter. You can always bundle up to keep warm. It also meant our freezer never thawed out and we could put snow in the refrigerator. Plus all of the springs and creeks were still running, so water for the cattle wasn't an issue. I don't know what we would do without power right now. We really need to get a good back up generator.