Silica/quartz mines...
Facilitates chip making, among other things.
Could be a land grab.
As usual, I've heard conspiracy theorists suggest the storm might have been 'created' in order to seize the land...
I didn't think that was the case at first but, meh, now I think it's a little sus.
They're calling it the "1000 year flood"...
https://theconversation.com/why-are-so-m...ice-240178
Climate change blah blah whatever.
I'm just saying...
It's not impossible that, at the very least, a natural disaster is being taken advantage of and these mines are the focus.
A lot of these channels (like in the OP post) are sensationalist and they always dramatize shit...
So the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
In this case, I think they're probably right though.
It took them a week to send in the army. A dozen army choppers flew over my house yesterday. They never meant to go in and rescue, only recover.