In fact, it can unite us and in turn set us free

It really didn't though, did it. You used it as a prime example of the failure of government, up to and including highlighting the names in the current administration as responsible for the pain and suffering going on in the aftermath. From ex-president Trump to Ron DeSantis using the disaster as a political tool. Trump treading through flood waters having gotten his feet wet handed them twenty five million dollars for his photo opportunity to Ron DeSantis about to get his smugness handed back to him any minute now. Wonder if now DeSantis will come out and say, sorry suffering people of Helene, I need my rescue crews back. You know what, the same stories will prevail out of Florida as seen with Helene and as seen with every devastating hurricane to hit the US, mankind coming to the rescue to save countless hoards of people. Remembering one of the hurricanes that came ashore in Texas a few years back, countless people in neighboring states gathered up their boats and headed to Texas to save stranded lives, exactly the same we seen with Katrina, private boat owners grabbing up boats and rescuing people off of roof tops. There are two huge main differences with this hurricane, it landed during campaign season, and the hurricane sat over the state(s) involved for three days afterwards, churning like a cyclone that brought its outer winds to my state of Michigan for those three consecutive days. Unlike prior hurricane that hit and just kept right on moving.

It wasn't just that and the sheer amount of widespread damage through multiple states that hampered the ability to start rescue operations but the dangers involved allowing other humans to go into dangerous conditions putting their lives at risk and that's why they made the decision to keep people out. As harsh as that may sound, it's just the reality of it. Here's a story I didn't see highlighted here that shows the risk involved, and this individual was well acquainted with a river that he loved, so accustomed to it he took upon it to try save someone's life, took his dog along, and his girlfriend. He lost his life, along with his dog, when so much debris got stuck in his boat motor rendering it inoperable was
set upon and uncontrollable drift until it struck a bridge, overturned costing him his life, his dogs life and left his girlfriend clinging onto tree branch for hours until rescuers found her.
https://www.woodtv.com/news/tennessee-nurse-and-his-dog-died-trying-to-save-a-man-from-floods-driven-by-helene/

I also didn't see this story, and my money would be on there are hundreds of stories of professionals that know what they are doing sent in preparation for the storm to pass so they can go in and start saving lives. Same as with utility crews, hundreds of crews from across the US are stationed waiting for the storm to pass so they can go in and restore power. As for Musk claims they were being hampered from sending in Star Link, it's because the terrain looked like a bomb went off and they merely asked them to wait until professionals could guide them in. No use putting more people's lives at stake. Now today it's been announced that he's going to charge those people for his Star Link use. Overall really, this is what people are missing in this new supposed paradigm sift taking place. Billionaires like Musk want it all privatized so they can make money off the backs of people suffering. You can see the writing on the wall with them trying to sell people that NASA isn't as capable as Musk dealing with our space explorations programs. Musk couldn't be happier, same as with Trump, that private industry take over governing the people rather than the government. Government can be held to account, private industry not, because there won't be any government entities left to file complaints against them. Making them all out to be the unsung hero's of the day when not to long into the future this unsung hero wants to be able to track a tweet within five minutes of it appearing on x anywhere in the world. Sarcastically, maybe, just maybe, one day that same unsung hero will be able to just zap you from the planet, after all, no one will be around to hold him accountable. Sound a bit middle eastern authoritarian, maybe that's why they'd taken a liking to the middle eastern way of governance. Like billionaire Peter Thiel, a good friend of Musk, Trump and all those other globalist people despise, remarked on China, you can argue back and forth if the Chinese model was the right or wrong model all day, but he never called it out as wrong, just as an option of debate when there shouldn't be any debate involved in it at all.
https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/what-michigan-crews-saw-in-north-carolina-after-helene/

All these little fantasies of devastating effects that'll see see communities rising from the ashes and developing communities of self sufficiency guided by their own personal Rick Grimes, is just that, a fantasy. They, in themselves, will be no different than the current governing structure we have now, and as seen in the last few days, they too won't let a good story go to waste if they can find a way to capitalize it for political gain, or financial gain either.