Jonathan Howard

And this was still earlier in the week.

I think it was Wednesday.

when people were still very, very desperate.

So I ran to a senator from North Carolina the day before at the Asheville airport, and he was telling me about it.

He was like, we're trying to stop him from coming here.

And they were telling him if you come here, they're not going to be able to do their job.

Can you tell me what senator?

I don't remember his name.

I don't remember his name at all.

It was just old.

He was an older guy.

I know I was told he was a Republican, had no idea who he was.

But he was like, we're trying to stop him from coming here so it doesn't slow down rescue operations.

Because at this point, it was still life or death.

But he came anyways, shut us down.

And we were, me and him were literally just sitting there with our helicopter right in front of us for like three, three and a half hours.

And we couldn't go do one mission during that time.

And then by the time we got done, I think we only got maybe two missions in before it got dark.

But it was just, that's the kind of, it's like,

That's the kind of political nonsense that was happening.