“...extreme heat has never received a federal major disaster declaration under the Stafford Act, meaning FEMA cannot deploy its full toolkit — including individual assistance for cooling costs, medical expenses, or housing — even as heat kills more people annually than floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes combined.”
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“...heat kills more people annually than floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes combined.”
Really? Can that possibly be true?
Heat deaths also include athletes and out of shape people who die from overheating during activity.
It could well be. We really, for such a large country with particularly violent weather patterns largely determined by our unique geography, don't lose very many people to floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes combined. Things have changed a LOT when it comes to warnings and so on, since, say, the Great Tri-State Tornado, which killed almost 700 people in one pass.