Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires, and Tornado Season Without FEMA

basso · Oct 19, 2025

rimrocker said: ↑

Nothing like the Palisades. More like the Texas flooding where money was available for preventative projects but not spent because of some ridiculous notion that reducing the scale and scope of disasters and the human suffering they cause is a blue thing.

Early May, along with millions of of dollars worth of other projects to help Alaska deal with climate change. An EPA spokesperson defended the action: “To be brutally candid, due to the proactive cancellation of this grant, $20 million of hardworking U.S. tax dollars are currently sitting in the U.S. treasury instead of swept into the Kuskokwim River.”

That's a hell of a thing to say. If you assume that any prevention action is wasted because a disaster will happen eventually, that allows you to not care about communities and people. It's one more data point that with this administration, you are truly on your own.

It's hard to say how much work could have been done over the summer, but some would have been done. The fact that the storm happened this year instead of next year or the year after gives guys like you some wiggle room to ignore the real-world consequences of your politics and policies.

Incidentally, this discussion will repeat over and over during the coming years. In the meantime, DHS just bought two private jets for the Secretary to use. Where the funding came from, well, who can say?
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you seemed to be blaming the damage and the need for evacuations on the cut in funding. the funding cuts may be regrettable (maybe not?), but they are not the cause of what happened in Alaska.

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