Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires, and Tornado Season Without FEMA

They weren't helping the majority of Americans anyways, they skipped houses with Trump signs...

It's time for a better org with a better system that isn't politically motivated.

 

Go away

 

Why does she need to? Do you feel threaten? Do you feel outnumbered? She has her freedom of speech just like everyone else on here.

For someone who didn't vote, you sure like to be one sided.

 

You believe everything in the bubble chamber eh

 

FIFY

 

Threatened? Why would I be? All she does is cry about Trump. It's old.

I'm not one sided at all. If I was I would have voted.

 

Dumbasses like him that can't express their views on a thread topic then b**** and moan instead of just leaving the subforum.

 

Thank God for Texas, Texas will take care of the people.

 

So because of it getting tiring and old, she should stop?

If a sport franchise keep losing and losing, fans should shut up and take it up the rear end? No changes need to be made? Or if the owner or GM did something outrageously stupid, fans should shut up and accept it?

Had trump made the Luka doncic trade, y'all probably would think it was a good trade.

 

Another meltdown

 

I don't care about Trump

Yes She's tired old.

 

You want a real meltdown?

January 6th, 2021.

 

lol now that's funny...

 

FEMA? We don't need no steenkeeng FEMA!

 

Right? Greg Abbott and his heart of gold lead.

 

The public expectations for disaster response and what will now actually happen are leagues apart. You are on your own. At least, you better plan for such and if any help does come, consider it good fortune. That goes double for recovery. (If you live in a hurricane or fire or flood or earthquake zone, you should be hyper-vigilant about paying attention to warnings right now.)

Of course, the reason FEMA was created is because states used to have all the responsibility but it became abundantly clear in the 1970s that this was a failing model. Now we are back there again with even more intense and frequent disasters.

Yes, FEMA needs reform (for one, there's still too many legacy Cold War civil defense bits hanging around) as does our whole national/state/local approach to emergency management, but this is not the way. We should be reforming all this deliberately and dispassionately with a clear understanding of climate change and a goal of protecting communities by anticipating, planning, preparing, responding, and recovering for/from disasters. This is definitely not that.

Also, I've trained folks in Texas, including Panhandle practitioners who have been going through it lately. Good people for the most part, but they will not perform on a large-scale, long-term, complex disaster better than any other state--and if you have cascading disasters, the systems will break. I remember sitting in on a call after Katrina and before Rita. FEMA was tapped out and the worst was feared from Rita. Texas officials on the call were begging for all the national and state help available, which wasn't much at the time. This will likely become the norm but before you can beg for help you must first pay homage to the guy in the White House who will decide on a whim whether you get any help at all and whatever is offered will likely come with conditions.

 

Also, without a federal backstop, states will be less likely to send their folks to go help out another state because of the chance of a disaster happening there. We already see this with wildland fire--states keeping their resources at home for fear of being slammed should something happen while the state is not at full strength even as other states burn.