Front Page- “You had one job,” is often the refrain after a natural disaster. And FEMA is terrible at post-disaster responses. Unlike the Red Cross, it doesn’t even have the excuse that its only real purpose is fundraising off disasters while doing nothing about them.
But FEMA’s primary role is in theory disaster preparedness. It wasn’t much good at that even before the mandate of pushing global warming into everything skewed its predictions, recommendations and warnings so badly as to make them mostly useless. more
FEMA is nothing more than a money laundering scheme fucking the taxpayer and lining the pockets of appointed bureaucrats.
@ Anonymous MONDAY, 14 JULY 2025, 16:56 AT 4:56 PM
I worked for a quarter century for a local jurisdiction. A couple years ago FEMA began paying to fly “disaster preparedness teams” from every jurisdictions in the US to the east coast and house them for a week for training. Some were essential staff who would benefit from training, but north of 3/4 of them there was absolutely no benefit for them being there. It was a junket and that’s all it was.
Just another federal over-reach program created by President Peanut. It wasn’t enough to also create the Dept. of Education, and a hyper-inflation prime interest rate of 18%. Oh, but he was a christian…..
If you spend some time on historicaerials.com looking at Camp Mystic Lake southwest of Kerrville, TX, you will see that many, (most?,) of the buildings were constructed after 2018. So … the 100 year old camp was as “day camp” back in the day AND only recently morphed into flood plain sleepover camp. It has long been a BIG deal in Texas to avoid building in flood prone areas. Someone in the Kerr County government had to have approved a building code variance. Corruption?
Another interesting map can be found on the Kerr County Graphic Information System, (GIS,) site. It show the structures with a flood hazard overlay.
Same as in NC.
Marooned,
That’s why when the Mrs & I were house hunting, not only did we look at the house itself, but I also looked at the surrounding terrain. What was uphill. What was downhill. What was the neighborhood drainage slope.
Yeah, we may get flooded out…eventually. But a whole lot of other people are gonna get washed away before us. We’ll have plenty of warning
(saaaayy…..what’s up with that old man and his large boat?)
“FEMA was the problem, not the solution”… AGAIN.
FEMA – time for the scrapheap.