Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires, and Tornado Season Without FEMA

U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a week

Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

First the river rose in Texas. Then, the rains fell hard over North Carolina, New Mexico and Illinois.

In less than a week, there were at least four 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events across the United States — intense deluges that are thought to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.

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It's sad really. Sometimes people would rather cut off their own foot to save their face. Politics can kill people, when they vote against things meant to help them, just because they hate the party offering them help.

One woman at the meeting said...

"If you vote to keep Biden's money, I will hold you personally responsible and personally liable for any and all harm that comes to me and my family, as well as the residents of this county."

 

It's not just Kerrville though. So many people in red states have put themselves in line for more harm than good by believing in Trump.

FEMA Is Eliminating Hazard Mitigation Programs, Leaving Americans Nationwide at Risk as Disasters Worsen

Without these programs, the vast majority of federal funding for disasters will be spent on response and recovery after disasters occur and in the places they occur, rather than attempting to reduce costs through predisaster mitigation—even as events such as floods and wildfires become more frequent and more damaging as a result of climate change.

Predisaster mitigation not only saves lives, but it’s also a good investment: studies by the National Institute of Building Sciences (PDF) and the US Chambers of Commerce find that hazard mitigation programs can generate benefits of between $6–$13 for every dollar invested.

The scale of the cuts in ruby-red Louisiana -- 34 grants totalling $185 million -- prompted the state's Republican senior senator, Bill Cassidy, to publicly condemn the decision to cancel the program.

"We passed BRIC into law and provided funds for it," said Cassidy in a speech on the Senate floor in April. "To do anything other than use that money to fund flood mitigation projects is to thwart the will of Congress."

There's an interactive map on here to click on each state. It makes no sense to deny funding to better prepare an area prone to flash flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes, and such before history repeats itself, and tragedy and loss happens again.

I'm just including a screen shots, but below, but you can find your state on the map in the article link.






https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/fe...s-leaving-americans-nationwide-risk-disasters

 

I just quoted one example in the article below, but this type anger goes all across the heartland of Trump country.

FEMA's storm prep program hammer communities that voted for Trump

A CBS News investigation found two-thirds of counties that have lost funding from this FEMA program supported President Trump in the 2024 election.

The mayor of Central -- a community of about 30,000 outside of Baton Rouge -- Evans and his family were forced to evacuate their home by boat in 2016 when flooding from torrential rains destroyed 60% of the structures in town.

"Flood water doesn't discriminate," said Evans, a Republican and supporter of President Trump. '"Any person that flooded is shocked that it would be considered politics to do flood mitigation."
So when he received word in April that FEMA was canceling a grant program that would provide nearly $40 million for a new flood control system in Central, he was angry.

https://www.cbsnews.com/femagrantcuts/