If #KamalaHarris had been elected, #FEMA would be all around the #USA involved in disasters happening across #America instead of playing with his lil toy soldiers and military toys blowing up tiny boats, stealing ships full of oil, bombing foreign countries w/o congressional authorization.
#trump once again illegally stole an election and and is now hell bent on destroying #American#democracy for his master #Putin
Gregg Phillips, an election denier who co-produced rightwing propaganda "documentary" "2000 Mules," has been appointed Administrator of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery (ORR), according to Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket. Phillips has no experience in disaster management, but in his new position, will be responsible for enabling functions like search and rescue, debris removal and "everything that gets a community back up and running again," a FEMA staffer told Kabas. Here's more.
Random emergency management question: there was a great doc out there (by a 3rd party consultant) about properly constructing emergency text messages. i.e. how to build good templates for various disasters. Anyone recall where that was? (Internet search... useless now). #EmergencyManagement
This isn't it, but handle. the FEMA IPAWS message template generator. I guess someone needs to cache this before it gets blown up by the People In Charge.
After Hurricane Helene swept through North Carolina in September 2024, the Hill family fought hard for every federal aid dollar available to rebuild. They were displaced by the deadliest inland hurricane on record.
Thanks to a loophole implemented in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is able to siphon resources and people from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The Lever reports that this now threatens preparedness for climate disasters across the country. Here's their story on how a package of reforms that was meant to protect FEMA's independence after the catastrophic mismanagement of Katrina led to it becoming a slush fund for ICE.
MSNBC: After helping GOP-led Texas, Trump admin denies FEMA aid to another Democratic-led state
The denial of federal money to assist Maryland’s flood recovery continues a trend of spurning devastated residents in states with Democratic governors.
Except for criticizing him recently, apparently this thin-skinned #WATB#Snowflake is STILL obsessing over the fact she criticized him during his FIRST term nearly a decade ago (b/c as I often point out, people with #Dementia live in a time warp where they think things that happened DECADES ago happened yesterday.) #DisasterPresidency
#SundayShowdown #PuppyKillerNoem is on #MtP defending her response to the #Kerrville Flood [72 hours later], saying over & over again that resources "were deployed AS SOON AS THEY WERE REQUESTED within hours."
@CNN is reporting that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's cost controls may have led to delays in the Federal Emergency Management Agency response to the Texas floods. Noem, whose department oversees FEMA, recently enacted a rule that every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off. "For FEMA, where disaster response costs routinely soar into the billions as the agency contracts with on-the-ground crews, officials say that threshold is essentially 'pennies,' requiring sign-off for relatively small expenditures," write Gabe Cohen and Michael Williams, who spoke with four agency insiders for their story.
Trump’s declaration unlocked #federal#money to assist w/ the #disaster response. That includes paying for debris removal, for search & rescue experts, & for housing, food & other immediate necessities for those who lost homes in floods.
But such assistance may not be available in the future.
#Trump has proposed eliminating #FEMA, which provides billions of dollars in assistance to communities hit by #disasters. He argues that #states should take on more responsibility for responding to & preparing for #ExtremeWeather & other disasters.
#Texas leaders are helping Trump realize that goal.
This spring, #Trump appointed a council of Cabinet members, governors & #emergency management experts, tasked with recommending changes to #FEMA. #GregAbbott & the top emergency official in #Texas, W. Nim Kidd, are both on that council.
"FEMA is slow & clunky & doesn't solve the needs of those who need it the most," Abbott said at the first meeting of the FEMA Review Council in May. "States have proven that we can move more nimbly, more swiftly, more effectively."
In California, Trump has cast doubt on whether he will approve the $40 billion Gov. Newsom has requested to help pay for recovery costs associated with the LA fires, including $16.8 billion from FEMA to rebuild property and remove debris.
Nach Flut in Texas: Zahl der Todesopfer steigt auf mehr als 100
Nach den Sturzfluten im US-Bundesstaat Texas sind laut Medienberichten mehr als 100 Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Das Weiße Haus kündigt einen Besuch von Präsident Trump an - und weist Schuldvorwürfe zurück.
Nach Flut in Texas: Suche nach Vermissten - und Verantwortlichen
Während Hunderte Helfer nach den Vermissten suchen, wird diskutiert, ob die Folgen der Flutkatastrophe im US-Bundesstaat Texas vermeidbar gewesen wären. Auch die Kürzungen von Präsident Trump beim Wetterdienst geraten in den Fokus.
Is U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) acting boss David Richardson familiar with the concept of "hurricane season"? Richardson told employees during a briefing today that he didn't know the U.S. had one. According to @CBSNews sources, staff were unsure if he was joking, and he did not clarify his remarks.