“Presidents” at Capitol for Inauguration. Heavily touched-up photo. All clones.

Here we are. Here are political celebrities entering the Capitol for the Inauguration. (1) If you believe Real Raw News, and I do, Michelle Obama is absent, having just been taken into custody. (2) (No time to release the next clone, to replace this one.)

This is the second time Michelle Obama will have been executed. (3) I know. I know. It sounds weird. And that’s one way in which all this has been kept hidden, by the threat of the whistleblower being ridiculed as weird, having lost it, a “conspiracy theorist.”

“You don’t believe that, do you?”

When we wake up to the truth, it’ll be that some nations – France, Great Britain, etc. – are currently run by clones or stand-ins. The originals are dead.

No one seems to ask who’s running the clones?

I don’t know. Many of the shadowy centers of power, like the 13 Illuminati Families, are gone.  Many political figures as well. Celebrities. Military. On and on it goes.

Pope Francis is an example of a world leader assassinated and replaced by a clone. Unfortunately Vladmir Putin is another. I greatly admire his stand-in, by the way. (4)

In my eyes, neither George nor Laura Bush look like these two people

The cabal has always relied on accusations that label the truth as far-fetched, outlandish, a smoke dream.

Satanists? Ha ha ha. Where did you get that idea?  Drink the blood of children? Ho ho ho. Rich. Unimaginable.

But they’re true.

Many if not most of the deep-state actors are also Satanists. Matthew describes how they sink into depravity:

Matthew: As that [Satanist] behavior becomes more extensive and crueler, the light in those individuals keeps dimming until the heart-space is a dark void wherein there is no conscience or other guidance from the soul to the consciousness. With only the spark of light that is the body’s life force, they become captives of the dark forces and act as its puppets. That is what happened to the weakest souls in the universal family, the Satanists. They became capable of happily committing acts that to others of all species in all civilizations are unspeakable, unthinkable. (5)

Our favorite (cabal) celebrity may very well drink children’s blood. Governor Newsom for instance, is simply doing what everyone else was:

“It turned out everyone was doing [adrenochrome]. Politicians, celebrities, even athletes.” (6)

If it were true, that would explain a lot of confidently-extreme behavior from elitists. It would also attract the charge of being complicit in “serious human rights abuses” since adrenochrome is produced through torturing children.

Moreover, “Joe Biden” really is an actor.  Under that rubber mask lies actor Arthur Roberts, who never starred in a bigger role. (7)

The whole time, “Joe Biden” has been under the command of the white-hat military.

The white-hat plan is designed to see We the People demand that the white-hat military remove the cabal, thereby averting civil war.

I’m in.

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(To be concluded in Part 2, below.)

Footnotes

(1) All executed. See:

• Michael Baxter, “George W. Bush Hanged at GITMO,” Real Raw News, Jan. 6, 2022, at https://realrawnews.com/2022/01-george-w-bush-hanged-at-gitmo/.
• ….., “Bill Clinton Death Ruled a Homicide, Death by Poison,” Real Raw News, September 30, 2021 at https://realrawnews.com/2021/09/bill-clinton-death-ruled-a-homicide-death-by-poison/
• ….., “Hillary Clinton Hanged at GITMO,” Real Raw News,  April 26, 2021 at https://realrawnews.com/2021/04/hillary-clinton-hanged-at-gitmo.
• [Obama] made a plea deal and was let out for a time to help Trump, but somewhere along the way he violated the plea deal [he kept a satellite phone inside the pillowcase in his cell] and was rearrested [reassessed; he was already in his cell], put before a firing squad, and shot in the back of the head [Sept. 30, 2019]. (Medeea Greere, “BQQM! GITMO is Full! Collection Of Mind Blowing: The List Of All Arrests From 2020-2023 | Dismantling the Deep State Operatives and Doubles | What’s Really Going On Behind The Scenes…,” AMG-News, Sept. 25, 2024, at https://tinyurl.com/mvt6tm2a, p. 101.)

(2) See “Michelle O” (Michael Robinson) Goes to Gitmo,” Real Raw News, January 20, 2025, at https://realrawnews.com/2025/01/michelle-o-michael-robinson-goes-to-gitmo/

Michelle was caught in the act of making love to another man, which settled the matter of his gender. S/he was heavily stoned. Apparently he’d let it be known to the escort community where he’d be staying and that he wanted sex. Someone tipped off the white hats.

(3) “Lying Big Mike was executed shortly after [Obama was]. … Obama turned over on Big Mike to get a plea deal. … Big Mike got the lethal injection. I have to think he made a video confession.” (Medeea Greere, “BQQM! GITMO is Full!” ibid.) This is the first time Michelle was executed. This current tribunal will be “her” second.

(4) Matthew Ward tells us:

“During the past year the Illuminati assassinated two of G/NESARA’s leaders, Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis. Putin was replaced with a look-alike and the Pope usually is depicted by holography.” (Matthew’s Message, Feb. 3, 2021, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/02/03/matthews-message-via-suzy-ward-feb-3-2021/.)

(5) Matthew’s Message via Suzy Ward, Oct. 3, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/10/03/matthews-message-via-suzy-ward-oct-3-2022/.

(6) Newsom: “’I swear I’d never heard of [adrenochrome] before that, never taken it before. I was told it would make me a better, a stronger governor. I was reluctant, you know, but it turned out everyone was doing it. Politicians, celebrities, even athletes—somehow it’s not detected on conventional drug tests. I was already tipsy on a few too many cocktails and caved in,’ Newsom purportedly told investigators.  …

“‘Only in brief, fleeting moments of clarity, lucidity did I realize it made me open to the power of suggestion. For example, when I was told that the state shouldn’t jail arsonists or shoplifters, or homeless people accosting tourists, well, it sounded like a great idea, and I went along with it. And when Pelosi told me we should indefinitely lockdown the state and enforce vaccination and mandates, it sounded fantastic. The Adrenochrome made me do it all,’ Newsom went on.” (Michael Baxter, “Newsom: ‘Adrenochrome Made Me Do It,’” Real Raw News, Nov. 26, 2021, at https://realrawnews.com/2021/11/newsom-adrenochrome-made-me-do-it/.)

(7) See “Love Will Win. That Has Been My Plan Always,” December 14, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/12/14/love-will-win-that-has-been-my-plan-always/

“Sun. 12 May 2024: Joe Biden is not president of the USA. He was executed in 2021 for pedophilia. Joe Biden has been played by Arthur Roberts behind the mask.” (Q Storm 1776, Telegram, Sun. 12 May 2024 https://t.me/QStorm1776)

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Part 2

Fake representations of Trump and Melania from an earlier video

(Concluded from Part 1, above.)

In my opinion, our decency, our willingness to believe the good in people has been played upon. It’s been used to permit the world itself, as a governed unit, to almost slip from the control of those who value our well-being to a ruthless elite determined to “cull the herd.”

They propose to murder all but 500 million of us. (1) And they’re hard at work at the moment – Paradise CA, Lahaina HA, Wyoming, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, Florida, and Los Angeles for starters. Still we don’t cop to what is happening. What will it take?

The execution lists circulating on the web show that there really are mass arrests occurring. Tribunals are operating at Gitmo, Naval Base Blaz on Guam, Diego Garcia, Pine Gap, Greenland, Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, on board ships, on and on.

Things we don’t want to do or are forbidden by law from doing are being done in the prisons of allied countries, I heard. That has been going on since the 1960s at least.  I did not keep the reference.

Now we are even condemning folks to execution without the need for a tribunal on the basis that the proof against them is overwhelming. (2)

We’re going too far (now I am acting like a conservative!). All done in the name of national security.  Time to make that term a distant memory: Time for peace in the name of national security.

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Folks, in my opinion, this is collective madness. We can’t be throwing our values overboard like this and hope for a happy outcome.

We may have banished woke culture – or I hope we have – but the job isn’t done. We need to banish the belief that it’s alright to hang our enemies too. It isn’t. I don’t need to quote Jesus, I’m sure; it just isn’t right.

Far better to admit our bankruptcy of ideas in rehabilitation. Far better to admit that we allowed the deep state to create prisons for profit and fraudulently condemn our youth to prison sentences. (3) Far better to admit that we just want to be rid of our problem, in the fastest way possible.

I know we have a big problem on our hands. But natural forces are also at work, deciding the matter for us. Readers of this blog know that the Ascension lovelight energies are continually rising. These energies will invigorate us but they’ll cause degeneration in the darkly-inclined. They won’t be here much longer. (4) There’s no need for us to take matters into our own hands here.

Read Stop the Executions! at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Stop-the-Executions-7.pdf

Footnotes

(1)  Matthew Ward tells us:

“Universal councils that set standards for civilizations’ interactions would not sanction killing 90 percent of Earth’s population, an Illuminati goal of longstanding. They [the Illuminati] cannot have a third world war—they started WWI and II and made vast fortunes by selling war machinery to both sides in both wars—and they cannot fabricate and release more lethal viruses.

“The councils hold that the reign of darkness on the planet is over for once and for all, and the wealth of assistance does not include action that is within Earth residents’ capabilities. Taking legal action to prosecute proven evildoers is the peoples’ responsibility.” (Matthew’s Message, Nov. 1, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/11/01/matthews-message-nov-1-2023/.)

(2) JAG (Judge Advocate General) at Gitmo sentenced Alejandro Majorka and Deanne Criswell, recently, to death without tribunals. See:

• Michael Baxter, “JAG’s New Leadership Executes Deanne Criswell WITHOUT Tribunal,” Real Raw News, Dec. 9, 2024, at https://realrawnews.com/2024/12/jags-new-leadership-executes-deanne-creswell-without-tribunal
• …., “Mayorkas Executed at GITMO,” Real Raw News, Dec. 11, 2024, at https://realrawnews.com/2024/12/mayorkas-executed-at-gitmo

(3) See “Facts about Hip-Hop and Prison for Profit,” July 15, 2019, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/07/15/301851/.

(4) See:

• The End of Darkness on Earth: the Dawning of the Light at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/The-End-of-Darkness-6.pdf
• Some will Choose not to Ascend: The Time of Separation at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Some-Will-Choose-Not-to-Ascend-4.pdf
• Stop the Executions! at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Stop-the-Executions-7.pdf

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People are living in tents after Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina and elsewhere

I’d like to expand on something I said earlier when a ceasefire was declared between Israel and Gaza.

And everyone is so happy to have a ceasefire that they overlook the devastation that the deep state has wrought on this area to advance their goals. Let’s stop supporting sides and see the work of the puppetmaster behind the curtain.

I can understand why Iris Chang, the author of The Rape of Nanking, committed suicide. The sense of responsibility imposed on her as a result of knowing in detail what happened in Nanking must have been more than she could bear.

But returning to my main point, the deep state plans things such that, when they take a step in the overall plan to secure world domination, it carries with it such destruction that the world is glad just to have it end and does little to investigate what really happened.

The deep state’s plan of divide and conquer rolls on from one issue to the next, one diversion to the next. I’m seriously considering a widget that lists the deep state’s diversions of the month.

For our part, we (not lightworkers, truthers, patriots, etc.) allow ourselves to be led by the mainstream media running cover for the deep state.  Having watched so many Democrat retrospectives since the election, I’m surprised at the level of what I think of as the brainwashing I see.

I’m busy brainwashing myself too; not saying otherwise. But their brainwashing seems to take us in a direction none of us would want to go in if we could see it for what it is – a cover for an attempt at world domination by a group of elitists who worship Satan.

The cabal, deep state, New World Order, Illuminati – whatever you want to call them – have just “played” us: maximum hostility and brutality as two hostile camps divided world opinion so badly that a simple cessation of hostilities bred a relief that hid the success of the operation – to divide the world and make it that much easier to conquer.

I think we need to focus on the puppetmasters and refuse to be sucked into fighting each other. If ever there was a time for trust, at least in the white-hat camp, now’s that time.

We need to stop our feuding, again in the white-hat camp, and get to work on the task of rescuing trafficked women and children, caring for the victims of hurricanes and wildfires, train derailments and other deep-state, false-flag catastrophes. (1)

Declare G/NESARA. (2) That will instantly provide everyone with the finances they need to bring their lives back to normal.

Don’t tell me there’s no money. The US flew 650 planeloads of gold from tunnels under the Vatican to either Fort Knox or Cheyenne Mountain (or both), depending on which source you read. (3) We have the money. It’s time to release it.

No one needs to be sleeping out in the snow in western North Carolina or in burned-out surroundings in southern California. It’s time now to blow the whistle, shout “Cut!” and end the movie. Enough is enough.

Footnotes

(1) The anticipated “med beds” are already being used to restore trafficked women and children.

(2) The Global/National Economic and Security Reformation Act drops income tax, provides a universal basic income for all, restores wealth that the Illuminati stole from the populace, by restitution, etc. It will transform people’s lives at the stroke of a pen. Start G/NESARA now!

(3) “A global military operation seized 650 plane loads of gold and cash from the Vatican and delivered it to the US Treasury, according to Charlie Ward, Ph.D. The operation dismantled the Vatican’s control over global corruption, exposing its role in funding the Deep State and the Ninth Circle Child Sacrifice Cult.

“The Fall of the Vatican’s Power: Ward revealed that military forces arrested 13 bloodline family heads, mafia leaders, and even the Pope, clearing out Vatican valuables. Over 6,000 Vatican Bank accounts tied to blackmail, human trafficking, and other heinous crimes have been shut down. This marks the collapse of the Vatican’s money-laundering empire, a critical blow to the global cabal.” (Gitmo TV on Telegram, Dec. 4, 2024.)

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On his 2017 world tour, President Trump won the submission of Benjamin Netanyahu, Pope Francis, and Queen Elizabeth and renewed his alliance with Mohammed bin Salman and Xi Jin Ping. He publicly illustrated his alliance with President Putin at Helsinki the following year.

The world’s attention, I believe, is fixed at the moment on (A) what happens in the U.S. right now and (B) what happens with Donald Trump and his team.

Whichever way President Trump chooses to go – whether with SCOTUS and the Brunson case or with the EBS and “martial law” (the US is already under martial law) – the curtain will be drawn on President Biden and members of the 118th Congress.

The ten days of broadcasts, when they come, will awaken anyone with any degree of open mindedness.

They’ll probably trigger the announcement of NESARA and new elections 120 days later, with a slimmed-down government and a Quantum Voting System.

They’ll also probably trigger the inauguration of the Quantum Financial System, med beds, and the release of 6,000 sequestered patents.

They’ll reveal that the real President Biden faced a military tribunal in early 2020 (some say late 2019) and was executed. I’m not aware of the grounds, but I think “treason” and “serious human rights abuses” would be a safe bet.

They’ll show that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election by a landslide and has always been the legitimate President.

I think (or hope) the shock of seeing so many personalities fall will be offset by the solar flare, Ring of Fire, or Wave of Love. (1)

But this is just my guess. If it were the case, it’d lift the despondent and show us what rewards await us where we’re headed (Ascension).

***

The main thing is not to be confused by being called “the right” and “conservative.” Quite the contrary. We’re re-form-ers, builders of a New Earth.

We used to find a home in the Democratic Party but no longer.  We’re now part of President Trump’s movement to drain the swamp. Not necessarily of a conservative leaning or a dyed-in-the-wool Republican either.

Our attention is on deconstructing the existing structures that house the deep state and building a new Earth, from the ground up.

The white hats have the military. They have the finances. And they have the agreement or control of most of the world’s governments. All we need to do now is maintain momentum, keep going to the end.

Never have we had a better chance of eliminating corruption and exploitation from the planet’s institutions, what Candace Owens called “institutional evil.” Never have the lines been so clearly drawn and the circumstances so favorable.

Once in it, there’s no turning back. Hmmmm…. Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, Wyoming wildfires. … You might agree that we’re already in it.

Footnotes

(1) See The Ring of Fire: A Planetary Heart Opening for Gaia at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Ring-of-Fire-Planetary-Heart-Opening-6.pdf

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You can see how serious the times are. Never mind that we know the outcome. (1) Never mind that it was somebody’s time to go. Or even that they left before the tornado struck.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton (HH&M) have shown us how many people can be affected – OK, killed – between now and the cabal’s final defeat.

This is no game, I found myself saying to myself. I’d better get moving.

HH&M showed us … me that, if we don’t wake up sooner rather than later, large numbers of people may be killed. Survivors may be stripped of their possessions.  And our governments are not in the business of saving our lives. Evidently, they want to get rid of us.

I wonder if that explains the withholding of the Reval when all the i’s have been dotted and the t’s have been crossed. Revalling now might take the pressure off the cabal. It might revive them.

I think we have to take back the reins of government and the military first before we Reval. Otherwise we may increase our global peril – and the peril of our children.

I know it’s an unpleasant thing to say, but it may be the truth.  And my commitment is to the truth, not to how it may be received.

***

HH&M has shown us, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the deep state will use mass murder by weather warfare as a weapon in their arsenal.

That took these “end times” into a different region of emotional space for me. I physically feel as if I can’t sit still any longer, as if I have to be in motion, as a result of it.

That doesn’t mean that Paradise CA and Lahina HI were somehow “inadequate” to fire me up. They began the process. It’s been building.  They were the ammunition and HH&M was the fuse.

Fortunately we have only a little more than two weeks left before we have a chance to draw down the curtain – globally – on centuries of hidden control and abuse.  On a hardscrabble existence. On looking on at poverty and feeling powerless to do anything about it.

During the ten days of broadcasts, the world’s militaries, in a concerted operation, will be arresting members of the cabal. They have multi-national forces taking down each country’s deep state.

While we watch the whole drama unfold on our screens, the men and women of the white-hat military will be deconstructing the deep state in real time.

If GESARA (Global Economic Security and Reformation Act) (2) doesn’t handle the world’s economic and environmental situation, I hope the recipients of the Reval (Global Currency Reset, a source of wealth) (3) will step in and fill in the gaps.

Let’s address any remaining disparities, needed public works, and new global initiatives as a result of years of attacks on we the people. (4)

The opportunity before us, with the Divine Mother’s blessings, (5) is to create a new Garden of Eden to replace the Purgatory that awaited us at the hands of the cabal.

Footnotes

(1) Divine Mother: [I am speaking about] those in … positions where control and abuse of power have been rampant. That will not be the platform [from] which integration of the various galaxies [into the new interdimensional region of space] takes place. That is not the Plan.

I know very clearly, sweet one, as do you, if it is not [in] my Plan, then it will not occur. …

Make no mistake, Sweet One, Love will win because that has been my Plan always. (The Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.)

(2) See What’s Next?
 Vol. 5: G/NESARA at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Whats-Next-5-2.pdf

(3) See What’s Next? Vol. 6: The Reval and Building Nova Earth at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Whats-Next-6-3-Reval-Building-Nova-Earth-.pdf

(4) Let’s clean up the oceans, redeem soil used as municipal dumps, neutralize nuclear radiation dumped on the floor of the oceans, etc. We can expect galactic help with this, if our star family has not already attended to it. They’ve already neutralized the depleted uranium released around the globe via western nations’ DU weapons. Without them doing that, the Earth would have died.

Steve: If the galactics had not neutralized depleted uranium, would this planet have died?

Archangel Michael: Yes. Now let me explain. It is not just that she would have died. It would have been that her will to continue on would not have been there.

S: Wow, eh? That serious.

AAM: Yes, that serious. (Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon, personal reading for Steve Beckow, August 6, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/08/haarp-chemtrails-and-depleted-uranium-all-neutralized-or-gone/.)

(5) Divine Mother: It was always intended that this be my planet of love. The magnitude of what can be experienced in the purity of that fulfillment is beyond your imagination. But that doesn’t matter. It encourages you to dream.

And you will see it. You will see it in your lifetimes, … and you will come to know just what is possible. (“The Divine Mother: Each and Every One of You Carries Divine Might,” June 19, 2013, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/spirituality-into-the-golden-age-of-gaia/the-golden-age-of-gaia/the-divine-mother-each-and-every-one-of-you-carries-divine-might/.)

SaLuSa tells us:

The Earth is a paradise of which there are no equals in your Universe, and it was seeded over millions of years. It was truly a Garden of Eden, but degenerated as the vibrations become lower and Man despoiled it with his greed and lack of caring. Now you are waking up to recognise the jewel that your Earth is and trying your best to restore it, and prevent further damage and destruction. Indeed, it is your responsibility to return it to its pristine condition as part of the preparations for Ascension. (SaLuSa, Feb. 5, 2012., at https://galacticchannelings.com.)

Steve Beckow

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Light Amid the Storm – Part 1

by Francesca, email

Tiara Kumara recorded a powerful message from her mountain home, “Earth Changes: Insights from the Western North Carolina Floods.’ (1) Here’s a brief summary – please listen to the full 19 minutes and rejoice!

1) Helene was indeed an “engineered event.”

2) Also a Karmic cleansing of the entire Appalachian region, which holds a tremendous amount of “traumatic imprinting” from the exiled Cherokee, wars, slavery and greed.

3) Beneath these mountains lie “dormant crystals” which are “very ancient, very powerful because of their absolute purity… A lot of cleansing needs to be done to peel away the layers of muck” and activate these crystals as part of the planetary grid.

4) Thus “the entire flooding event [is] a total reset of the entire region… which is slated to rise as one of the new sacred sites on the planet, a mecca for Spiritual energy.”

5) “The planetary body is ascending. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,floods, hurricanes…is how the planet is shaking off all the burdensome energies – that which weighs her down… Just like us!”

6) These events are significantly amplifying the mass awakenings [because of the] “overwhelming compassion coming from all over…Global good will is contagious…Good will is God’s Will.”

7) Furthermore, any “engineered events majorly backfire on the perpetrators by increasing their karmic load,” and hastening the mass awakenings!

8) Finally, Tiara reminds us that with “the collective God-consciousness emerging…how important it is to keep your vibration very high, and always regard the bigger picture perspective. This in lieu of going into blame and anger projections, maybe even feeling like a victim, because this level of emotion keeps us vulnerable to the sinister agendas playing out. At the level where fear and suffering play out, Duality is the game…This reflects back to us the [old] timeline of tyranny, controls, genocide.”

9) We amplify “the new grid with pristine thoughts based on Unity and timeless Divine principles…There is a deep meaning and higher purpose to all the events occuring, each one meant to further humanity’s Ascension…A GREAT DIVINE HAND IS BEHIND ALL OF THIS.”

We are very powerful! Waves of love/light are sweeping the planet, along with the great storms. So with every thought, word and deed do we amplify tumult and division, or the higher Unity consciousness? That is our choice on the Ascension path.

Matthew told us years ago how natural disasters are seen from the Spiritual world:

“The positive effects of mighty storms…outweigh the negative effects…

“The outpouring of prayers worldwide, volunteers and supplies…and the groundswell of grassroots assistance to the stricken population – love/light in action – are further heightening vibrations on the planet.

“Each devastating occurrence gives greater awareness that unity of spirit serves all peoples far more than the divisiveness the dark ones are trying to create.” (2)

Footnotes

(1) “Earth Changes: Insights from the Western North Carolina Floods” by Tiara Kumara, Oct. 9, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/10/09/earth-changes-insights-from-the-western-north-carolina-floods/

(2) Matthew’s Message, Sept. 2017, at https://www.matthewbooks.com.

Cajun Navy volunteers helping after hurricane

LIGHT AMID THE STORM – Part 2

by Francesca, email

Now some backrgound.

‘Hurukan’ was the ancient Caribbean storm god, feeding on warm ocean waters. Hurricanes still wreak havoc around the world.

The Atlantic Hurricane Season lasts from June1 – Nov.30, when the waters cool and the storms subside. An average of 14 hurricanes form per season, but this year Helene and Milton struck with epic force and government agencies, local and international aid groups, and countless individuals rushed in to help.

Amidst all this, confusion and frustration are inevitable – but so are inspiring stories! Just a few I know personally:

+ Pack mules from a local North Carolina ranch have been carrying supplies to remote homes over tree-strewn roads where trucks can’t pass.

+ The Cajun Navy from here in Louisiana – a well-organized group of guys with boats and big hearts – traveled to NC to help with search and rescue. They even partnered with the mule teams to deliver vital supplies like insulin, and teddy bears for the kids.

+ A friend of mine owns the Tyger Tyger gallery, a women’s art collective in Asheville, NC. Floodwaters from the river rose to the second floor, and after they subsided she posted an online plea for help. Friends and strangers showed up to salvage paintings from the wreckage, and shovel out the mud.

+ Another friend lives in Tampa, Florida. Before Hurricane Milton struck she walked along her street singing to the trees, to give them strength. She also put out extra seeds for the birds and squirrels to fortify them before the storm. They’re all OK, only the ground is now littered with leaves and branches like snow.

Steve Beckow

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