FEMA's Harvey funding down to $541M

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY NIV ELIS - 09/05/17 02:21 PM EDT

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has just $541 million in funds left for disaster management related to Hurricane Harvey, according to a FEMA spokesperson on Tuesday.

The agency also has an additional $472 million devoted to wildfire relief related to the blazes in Southern California and to prepare for Hurricane Irma. Irma was upgraded to a Category 5 storm and is headed toward Puerto Rico. It may also sweep up toward Florida and Georgia. The combined $1.013 billion in the Disaster Relief Fund is unlikely to be enough for the extreme challenges created by Harvey and the other disasters.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has warned that the bill for cleaning up and repairing storm damage from Harvey alone could cost as much as $180 billion.

The House is planning on taking up an initial disaster relief bill of $7.85 billion, $7.4 billion of which would go toward FEMA's disaster fund.


Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/349253-femas-harvey-funding-down-to-541m

[No Vested Interest]

1. And here comes Hurricane Irma right behind.

[catrose]

2. Right.

Another article on this site says that the winds at 180 mph are the highest ever in this hemisphere.

[No Vested Interest]

4. TS Jose is following Irma, close behind, and it's only Sept. 5.

Hope the NWS doesn't run out of names as it did a few years ago.
They had to start the second round of the alphabet with the Greek letter-names.

Of course, the human toll and toll on all life are more important than the names given.

[jmowreader]

6. I have the perfect list of names if they use up the 26 they already have

Alex
Ben
Betsy
Barron
Charles
David
Daniel
Elaine
Eric
Frederick
Grover
Ivanka
Jared
Kellyanne
Linda
Michael
Mick
Melania
Nikki
Ryan
Rick
Robert
Ronald
Sarah
Steven
Scott
Sonny
Thomas
Tiffany
Vivek
Wilbur

And just keep going with this list...unfortunately, there was already a storm named Don this year, and just like its namesake it caused a little damage but otherwise didn't do much of anything.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. If you're going to run government lean-and-mean, just-in-time like a business

these are some of the consequences

It's a bit like building an automobile with a one-gallon gas tank!

[not fooled]

8. Naw

this isn't some game of 3D chess that ryan et al. are playing. They just want to defund and permanently cripple the Federal Government.

[IronLionZion]

5. This might finally be Trump's downfall

if his administration and GOP congress won't help their own voters after 2 major hurricanes

God wants these assholes out of office

[not fooled]

7. Hey koch brothers

go ahead and destroy the Federal Government. Then try to find someone to clean up the disaster messes--caused by global warming resulting from your sale of fossil fuels--so that your businesses can continue. Oops, no one? Private businesses can't exactly do the job?

Oops, there is the flaw in their master plan--it's positively Shakespearean--they help create the disasters, but destroy the entity that can respond.

[Achilleaze]

11. Verily. Woe is we.

[noneof_theabove]

9. Trump's Sunday Prayer Day..

was to "Pray-Away" Irma.
No more funding from FEMA and Irma is not Cat5, so everyone on the east coast must not have prayed loud enough and long enough.
Better make it "Prayer Month" as September is the most active hurricane month and 2 are lined up.

[Skittles]

10. and repukes want to cut taxes

while people in their own red states suffer

THEY.DO.NOT.CARE.