California wildfires

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It's sad that these natural disasters get politicized by partisan division.

All those affected are American citizens and it would be nice to see the US pulling together without all the political points scoring and sniping.

My thoughts are with those whose homes and life's have been devastated, not with politicians and their blindly loyal supporters trying to make political capital out of it.

Yeah, I don't know, this isn't something new, people react differently to stressors. Some will question TPTB and others will be willing to get vaccinated no questions asked. 

Dubya got skewered over FEMA's Katrina response, hell for Andrew in 1991 Florida's then Governor Chiles got skewered. FWIW such a fervor led to Florida continuing to strengthen construction regulations to help mitigate 'some"issues. ie it's part of the process.

Disaster, response, criticism, new legislation much later, etc. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was criticized for its slow response in both Florida and Louisiana. Even a month prior to Andrew, the House Committee on Appropriations – which oversees the budget for FEMA – released a report calling the agency a "political dumping ground" and a "turkey farm" due to its "weak, inexperienced leaders". Congressman S. William Green of New York, a member of the Appropriations Committee, stated that he believed the agency learned little from its botched response to Hurricane Hugo in 1989. However, Green also criticized local officials for expecting "them [FEMA] to come and run the whole show". Some FEMA officials responded that it was impossible to respond as they had been requested while also continuing to provide aid for the Los Angeles riots. FEMA spokesman Grant Peterson stated, "24 hours is not reasonable to expect to have all the resources of the federal government landing in the middle of a disaster."[sup][108][/sup] Some responsibility for the slow response must rest with Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, who waited five days to submit the formal request for Federal assistance that FEMA officials believed was required before they were empowered to act.[sup][109][/sup]