[citizen]

Truly horrible.

I’m not expecting any sort of restored normality, soon. But a committed US gov’t *could* make a lot of headway in a month, if that was their focus.

[cva66snipe]

FEMA itself is about 25,000 clerical and supervision workers for the most part. In short crony agency and jobs Carter created. The most efficient thing they could do would be to release funds to victims {legitimate US citizen and resident of hit state} and the rest to relief organizations with a solid track record.

States also need to break away from FEMA and establish or re-establish the system utilities have used for over 8 decades of mutual aid agreements. That is what utilities still do. They have this in place to survive overwhelming disasters. I saw utility trucks coming south on I/75 from up north before Helena even made landfall. My Dad would talk about his early years working as a lineman for Ma Bell and trips {convoys} to Nashville from Knoxville due to ice storms etc. No interstates back then it was late 1940's early 50's.

A lot of work is happening in hit states more than the media wants to show. It would be nice if the deployed to ME 700 2/278th ACR Tennessee National Guards were sent back home. Congress needs to fully fund enough active duty members aka End Troops Strengths so NG's were put back to handling state emergencies under their governors.