You must’ve missed that I gave DeSantis credit. As you may not know the National guard of the states are under the direct command of the states. The federal administration has been working with the states and was quick to declare disaster declarations and prepositioned resources and aid. https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Dis...l-afb-prepare-for-hurricane-helenes-landfall/ This is a massive storm and recovery is difficult. Unlike the previous administration they didn’t say how wet the storm was or use a marker to claim the storm went a different direction.
Only MAGA clowns blame a Car 4 hurricane devastation on the President. Same folks who believed Trump when he said COVID was a hoax, or would disappear in the spring. Same folks who wear diapers in support of Trump or bandages on their ears. It's ignorant cult mentality.
This is how its suppose to be done. States help each other out. DeSantis makes his repairs faster than Biden/FEMA can respond.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article293214349.html “ President Joe Biden has agreed to provide immediate federal help to 25 western North Carolina counties battered by Helene, the White House announced Saturday night. The “major disaster” declaration, approved at Cooper’s request, means FEMA will be able to provide quicker additional help to those who need it. The federal government says it will also reimburse local governments, state agencies and nonprofits for repairing facilities, roads and other infrastructure.”
I posted earlier that the Biden Admin had predeclared disaster declarations in several counties and had pre positioned resources.
What does that matter with this hurricane where the response from the Feds has been crap. I bet if these people were flying Israeli or Ukraine flags they'd been helped immediately
Oh.... so they'll be forgoing the billions in disaster relief funding from the federal government? Of course not. Good for Florida.... but hopefully this isn't just some PR stunt by GOP/DeSantis.
Why wasn't NC more prepared? Or more of the states prepared for what was announced ahead of time, especially conservative states that pretend to shun the federal government? They can muster their own resources.... why did they fail their residents?
How many of these increasing never before seen storms does it take for these climate change is a hoax spurting red hatters to face reality? They support a moron who lies his as* off daily, and actually scoffed off the significance of the Cat 4 hurricane at his rally in Michigan. Listen how he scoffs off the significance of the Cat 4 hurricane at his rally in Michigan when said "There's a little hurricane going on in Florida as you know" and moves on to his fabricated excuses for all the people leaving the rally.
Eligibility for many disaster recovery resources and aid from the federal government, including the SBA’s disaster loan program, hinge on federal disaster declarations. From 1980 to 1989, the federal government declared 286 disasters, whereas in the past 10 years—from 2014 to 2023—that number more than quadrupled to 1,267, an increase of 443 percent. Project 2025—a far-right road map that would gut the country’s nearly 250-year-old system of checks and balances—proposes, on page 750, an “end to SBA direct lending,” the only instance of which is the disaster loan program. Project 2025 suggests privatization as one potential solution and claims, without evidence, that loan availability “reduces individuals’ incentives to purchase disaster-related insurance.” However, it makes no mention of the skyrocketing costs for families in these situations. From 2021 to 2023, home insurance rates rose nearly 20 percent nationally. And in states particularly vulnerable to disasters, such as Florida and Louisiana, it was even worse. In 2023, Florida homeowners saw the highest average home insurance rates in the country, paying, on average, $10,996 a year. Meanwhile, Louisiana homeowners, who pay the country’s second-highest insurance rates, are projected to see a rate increase of as much as 23 percent from 2023 to the end of 2024. Homeowners aren’t alone; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index finds that 27 percent of small businesses report being one crisis away from closing. Project 2025 proposes the agency increase the threshold for disaster declarations, thereby making it more difficult for states and localities—and, by extension, the families and businesses that call them home—to qualify for federal aid after disaster strikes. https://www.americanprogress.org/ar...ilies-and-businesses-rebuilding-after-storms/
Leave it up to the MAGA cult here to never let a good natural disaster go to waste. Apparently it's Biden's fault that a hurricane came, and destroyed a US city. And the logic here that activists like SpaceGhost and Commodore use is that DeSantis is a genius because his state was on the front line and had more wind issues, while North Carolina is Biden and the Democrats fault because the majority of the rain fell in a mountainous convergence zone and because the Democrats renamed a military base, Biden's WOKENESS caused this disaster. You guys are disgusting. There's nothing Biden could do up to this point other than readiness which for all I've read, FEMA is ready to deploy, and has the funding and resources they need. However it's about accessing the disaster zones which is nothing Biden could do up to this point. NOW this week if Biden isn't even involving the military if needed and doing everything he can for Ashville then yes it'll be on his in regards to the response. I would also ding Biden if in the IRA/infrastructure bill there wasn't any forethought to update our damns and storm prevention infrastructure in those key areas. I do see this part though-
