God bless you and your neighbors. Frankly, I don’t object to federal monies to help communities struck by natural disasters. Of all the wasteful federal spending out there, disaster relief is a small amount of money that usually does some good. I respect your self-reliant attitude.
Good reading, and well worth the 10 minutes or less to potentially give you a strong take and idea of constitutional thinking WRT the subject.
Here's a clue, Davy Crockett was shown the error of his ways.