Posted on 10/07/2024 6:03:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As Hurricane Milton pushes toward Florida, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is running out of staff members to deploy.
As of Monday morning, just 9 percent of FEMA’s personnel, or 1,217 people, were available to respond to the hurricane or other disasters, according to the agency’s daily operations briefing. To put that into context: Over the previous five years, one-quarter of the agency’s staff was available for deployment at this point in the hurricane season.
Even in 2017 — arguably FEMA’s busiest year in the past decade, after Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston, Hurricane Irma plowed through Florida, and Hurricane Maria plunged Puerto Rico into darkness — FEMA’s staffing reserves at this point in October were 19 percent, more than twice the levels they are at now.
The agency’s leadership stressed that it is well equipped to handle the strains. “FEMA is built for this,” said Leiloni Stainsby, the agency’s deputy associate administrator for response and recovery.
The agency is stretched not just by the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which killed more than 200 people and destroyed sections of western North Carolina. Its staff is also responding to flooding and landslides in Vermont, tornadoes in Kansas, the aftermath of Tropical Storm Debby in New York and Georgia and the Watch Fire in Arizona.
And those are just the disasters that were declared in the past two weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They don’t do anything anyway, they sit around.
FEMA needs to mandate more shots. That’ll bring them in.
Then get out of the way...
Yep. They’re just getting out in front of their next failure — Hurricane Milton.
pre-bunking all the cries about their negligence and uselessness.
follow the money.
I m praying - not just for those impacted by Helen and made worse by the Admin et al - that Trump will absolutely shine with Milton.
Why? It’s literally heading north of Mar-A-Lago. If Trump isn’t too distracted, he has staged tons of supplies and personnel in Florida.
Once this beast of a storm does its business, and the govt screws it up (these are the people who brought you the DMV and Afghanistan), Trump could totally shine.
What? Not enough LGBTQRTY? DEI CRT FEMA types?
Thank you sir. I hadn’t thought about that connection. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
If FEMA doesn’t show up, it just may be an act of God to
spare the people of Florida.
Taking care of illegals is their priority these days.
In my recollection FEMA was to be the feds ways to make sure insurance companies expedited claims payments during disasters. So people could recover based on the risk mitigation they paid for and underwritten by the insurance co. Feds cannot do this disaster crap. it is local, regional and statewide and best left to volunteers like Samaritans purse that can be on location in days if not hours.
They’re not “workers’...they’re paper pushers.
The Trump Organization did a GoFundMe and raised a million dollars before Trump went to Carolina.
How is the Watch Fire an emergency? It was out months ago.
Cool!
They are WORSE than useless. They confiscate supplies, order rescuers to stop and try to take credit for rescuing victims in North Carolina. Half their crew has been in hotels in Charlotte planning and arranging favorable publicity for themselves. People in NC are not falling for it.
The Tarheels should tar and feather the FEMA thugs.
And, this ...
Blackhawk does a roto wash (extremely close/high winds) over a Cajun Navy supply staging area ...
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1843300630485512342
I also read that a short while before this, two black SUVs with flashing lights pulled up to the area, stopped, then drove off.
EVIL!! Who could do this?
FEMA’s job is supposed to be to send our tax money back to the states to implement the states’ emergency plans. It is NOT supposed to be micro-managing or regulating what the states do with the money. They shouldn’t need any staff, just somebody to click on the money transfers.
Louisiana screwed that up worse than it already was by not having an emergency plan to cope with Katrina. The feds had to take over from the incompetent governor and mayor. (I’m a Louisianian so I can speak to this.) Once they tasted that power, they were not going back.
Better yet, the federal government should stop taking money from the states only to redistribute it as they wish.
Love,
O2
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