Despite his trailer having flooded and all his possessions being lost to water damage, defiant Texan, Ray “Buckeye” McCready is travelling around his home state on a makeshift raft to convince others that climate change is a hoax.
Mr. McCready jumped to action shortly after hurricane Irma struck, with concerns that the extreme weather conditions would convince more Americans that the theory of climate change was real and not, as McCready suggests, a hoax created by “the Commies.”
The raft has been crafted from empty oil drums and framed pictures of Elvis on velvet canvases. It is stocked with a full weeks supply of jerky, bourbon and ammunition as well as a bible and megaphone.
Mr. McCready has embarked without a paddle in the belief frequent blasts from a 12 gauge shotgun should be enough propulsion to travel. In a statement shouted via megaphone McCready told the Herald, “The Commies have wet up the place ’cause they want to take our guns away! They may say it’s the queers but it ain’t, it’s the damn Commies!”
Many of McCready’s neighbours applaud his actions with one, Mrs. Abernathy, saying “God bless that man and God bless President Trump, someone has to spread the truth. Obama can try and flood us out all he wants but we’re American and everyone knows Americans don’t drown easy.”
When asked what actions Mr. McCready believed should be taken to tackle the devastation he responded by shouting “NUKE THE SKY! YEE-HAW!” while firing a gun in the air.
