re: FEMA Being Phased Out After 2025 Hurricane Season

Eliminating FEMA while it sounds good, would expose the real incompetence of many governors to handle disasters like hurricanes....as well as limits of state ability.

You could frick a lot of people in the process who were fricked by the original disaster

Most if not all states have a state equivalent organization. Louisiana ha s GOESEP. They train and prepare year round. Some are full time , while other s volunteer from the state agencies to perform their GOESEP jobs when emergencies occur. It is extremely well run and organized. As long as the fed money flows to it to pay for the uncovered costs, the FEMA admin is not needed. They hinder more than they help.

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Trump added that the federal government will start distributing less federal aid for disaster recovery and that the funding will come directly from the president’s office.

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I'm not so sure that concentrating more power into the Executive office is the best answer, or even a good one. I'm sure it looks good when your team has a guy in the office, though.

FEMA was proven corrupt and inadequate when the NC flooding victims couldn’t get more than $750 apiece because Biden and Harris had given all the FEMA funds to the Middle East. Good riddance.

FEMA’s service level won’t be significantly worse after being dismantled.

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I have zero faith in my Governor, the same Governor who rented and anorexic tiger to bring to the LSU game to watch us lose by 40.

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This also means that people need to start paying attention and scrutinizing who their county/parish Emergency Management Association director is. That agency, at the state and county/parish level will, inevitably, have to grow. You better have a good one in charge at both levels, and I mean one with actual emergency response chops and the ability to play the political game.

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Oh yea, this will work out well for Louisiana..

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Who gives a shite? If you're the governor and legislature of a state prone to natural disasters, it's YOUR JOB to mitigate risks to the extent financially viable (including rainy day funds for actual disasters, I mean, they're fricking called rainy day funds.)

How do you like paying billions to California when they continue to not thin forests, etc? How do you think someone from South Dakota feels paying for Louisianans to rebuild the Superdome, throw money at levee boards that end up building entertainment "wharfs" as flood mitigation, etc.?

Take a look at Florida. After the condo collapse, they did the hard thing and legislated that condo boards increase inspections and increase assessments to prevent a bunch of people from being pancaked by concrete, because it was the responsible thing to do. Did it cause values to crash, and assessments to spike? Yes. It sucks, but it's their job.

Who else was responsible for that then?

A lot of dumbass meteorologists will no longer be able to read a weather map.