On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:23:56 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Keyser Söze wrote:
On 2/15/21 9:23 PM, Bill wrote:
wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:58:57 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:


Texas is being battered by a winter storm, causing rolling electrical
blackouts while unplowed streets have people trapped at home without
heat or water. At least 2.5 million people don’t have power in the
state, several times the number that lost power during Hurricane Harvey,
with record winter demand in the cold weather and turbines and other
equipment freezing.

In response, President Biden has approved an emergency declaration,
authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency “to coordinate all
disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the
hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population,
and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures,”
with 75% federal funding.

Yeah FEMA will get right on it.
By the time they do anything the snow will melt and the daffodils will
be blooming.
FEMA is great at hauling away the debris a month or two later but
don't count on them to do much right away.


Why is it the Federal governments place to fix this? Does Harry want them
to plow the streets in Rochester, MN when a big storm hits? Lots of boats
damaged and sunk in Oregon from the ice storm collapsing roofs over boat
moorings and also sinking the dock from weight, pulling the boats under.
Instead of the boat owners insurance, and people there working on the
cleanup. Harry, any your taxes, so we can give it to the boat owners and
banks holding the paper.


As has been previously noted, you loonytarians hate all manner of
government and crap on it at every and any opportunity. There's no point
in trying to explain federal government disaster assistance to the likes
of you, but I am sure if a serious widespread disaster struck your
house, you'd be fighting for a place in line for federal help. There's
no one more hypocritical than a Republican loonytarian.


There are disasters and then there is bad ****. The storms are bad ****.
By the time FEMA could do anything, most of the problems would have
disappeared. I am for helping, but also with caveats. When I was living
in Ohio, the Mississippi would flood some areas every year. Same people
would get flooded out. A reporter asked them why they lived there. The
person replied it is cheap and they supply us with new clothes and
furniture each time. Here, the Russian River had annual flooding of the a
lot of the riverside housing areas. Finally the people were told, last
bailout. People stopped building in the flood plane. Why should the rest
of us bail out some idiot who builds a home on a barrier island? Why?

The barrier island thing is really only about 60 years old. In 1953
when my grandfather moved to St Pete there were only expendable shacks
on the beach with few substantial buildings. People just packed up and
left when the storm came. They went back and patched up their shack on
their own. In the 60s the idea of Federal insurance made the barrier
islands bloom with lots of people making this their permanent home and
building whole developments. Most of the mangroves in the Boca Ciega
bay were lost to seawalls and dredge filled lots. Now the place is
wall to wall houses that a direct hit would wash into the sea. FEMA
would make them whole.