10-22-2024, 10:31 PM
FEMA like any other office agency or department in the first responder category should always be striving to get better and reorganize and remap constantly, as competent fire and police departments, competent hospitals, and a competent military does.
We can do better and if we can't perhaps FEMA's national disaster funding should go to each region in the US-based initially on the estimated number of events based on the region's previous history.
As has been mentioned Florida's responses have been stellar with minimal complaints since Andrew in 92. So Florida gets a chunk the rest of the Southeast gets a chunk of funds and they coordinate within thier region.
Hell before FEMA the state would send in their National Guard and see what the Feds or RedCross would do.
FEMA is financed by and large by our taxes, look at the graphic and ask yourself should Americans be without power this long?
Like one Western Carolinian said Hell send those solar-powered battery power banks for people to use.
Not even going to talk about how other first-world countries handle disasters like Japan after Fukushima
Not even going to get into NC Governor Roy Moore saying some communities will not be rebuilt, those land owners will be made offers and he hoped they will take it and relocate. Because they had a once-in-a-lifetime event. Hell Houston has been hit 4 times with major disasters more often than Asheville and they never suggested or inferred for people to relocate.
The recovery of our citizens and rebuilding thier lives after these should be in the top 3 prime directives of a government and if it isn't then we need to think about who us leading us
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We can do better and if we can't perhaps FEMA's national disaster funding should go to each region in the US-based initially on the estimated number of events based on the region's previous history.
As has been mentioned Florida's responses have been stellar with minimal complaints since Andrew in 92. So Florida gets a chunk the rest of the Southeast gets a chunk of funds and they coordinate within thier region.
Hell before FEMA the state would send in their National Guard and see what the Feds or RedCross would do.
FEMA is financed by and large by our taxes, look at the graphic and ask yourself should Americans be without power this long?
Like one Western Carolinian said Hell send those solar-powered battery power banks for people to use.
Not even going to talk about how other first-world countries handle disasters like Japan after Fukushima
Not even going to get into NC Governor Roy Moore saying some communities will not be rebuilt, those land owners will be made offers and he hoped they will take it and relocate. Because they had a once-in-a-lifetime event. Hell Houston has been hit 4 times with major disasters more often than Asheville and they never suggested or inferred for people to relocate.
The recovery of our citizens and rebuilding thier lives after these should be in the top 3 prime directives of a government and if it isn't then we need to think about who us leading us
His mind was not for rent to any god or government, always hopeful yet discontent. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is ....
Professor Neil Ellwood Peart
Professor Neil Ellwood Peart
