A politically motivated council with limited emergency management expertise, stacked with Republican governors, produced exactly the report you'd expect.
Hoo boy, this is an amazing piece of scholarship that @samlmontano.bsky.social has done! Bottom line if FEMA Council report becomes law: you’re on your own, disaster survivors.
Emerging Crises
Hey. Professional in the field here. This motherfucker is lying.
Dr. Jeff Masters
Amazing work by Dr. Montano. If you have anything to do with disasters, she is a necessary follow. If you don't deal with disasters on a professional level, you should still follow her, as we will need everyone pushing in the same direction to fix all of this.
“You get one life on this earth. Why spend it trying to take away what minimal help people get in a disaster? Do they think they will personally pay less in taxes because a single mother in rural Texas gets $30,000 less after a flood destroys her home?”
I've also just published my newsletter. I created a corresponding little meme game for you to play as you read my analysis.
Don't say I never gave you anything.
open.substack.com/pub/disaster...
MENEFEE: It's your argument that hurricanes and floods in this country and across the globe are not getting worse?
CHRIS WRIGHT: That's correct. That's what the data shows
