conservative case: this is another example of collapse, the inability to properly respond to an emergency … and it’s not new … remember Katrina? Or more recent, Maui?
this might be an example of the use of geoengineering to target a community with an inland hurricane – in order to extract rare earths or other precious materials from the hills
the history of the FEDs treating Appalachia like shit goes back a LONG LONG TIME, at least to the end of the US Civil War. Arguably, they just don’t want potential rebels up in the woods, they want them in camps …ooops … I mean cities.