The right to provide for the security and common welfare of the Republic.
I think saving unknowing victims from the storm of the century meets those qualifications.
And this is what has become of the conservative movement. Statists that are no different than their Democratic counterparts.
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.--Federalist 45, James Madison
Storms and their aftereffects fall under ordinary course of affairs. There is no Constitutional basis for your sick ideal of federal intrusion into the affairs of a state as it pertains to natural occurrences
The specific words you use are not found in those combinations in the Constitution. Federal powers in the Constitution are enumerated, and not general. The words used are "general welfare" (akin to your "common welfare") as intended by James Madison (who is generally considered to be the primary author of the Constitution) mean the sum total of the enumerated powers. By the way the federal government does not have rights (people have rights), governments have powers.