MicroWaveFeb 28, 2024

Texas governor issues disaster declaration as wildfires grow in Panhandle

https://lemmy.world/post/12511841

Texas governor issues disaster declaration as wildfires grow in Panhandle - Lemmy.World

> a 250,000 acre blaze burning in Hutchinson County. A nuclear weapons facility in the Texas Panhandle said it had evacuated some staff Tuesday amid wind-fueled wildfires that covered thousands of acres and prompted the governor to issue a disaster declaration. The Pantex Plant, which handles nuclear weapons, said it was monitoring the situation but that there was no fire on the plant site. All weapons were safe and unaffected, the facility said.

Show threadDagwood222
I assume that they’ll start the secession talk again as they get their funds from the Federal government.
Feb 28, 2024 at 12:20pmWeb
Show threaddhorkFeb 28, 2024
FEMA should respond by putting razor wire around all the affected areas. You know , to keep out undesirables like the Governor. They won’t, though, because they are not assholes and take their mission seriously.
Show threadJustUseMintFeb 28, 2024
Lmao imagine saying FEMA aren’t assholes
Show threadLifeInMultipleChoiceFeb 29, 2024
Name one time that FEMA was an asshole? I would love to know. FEMA distribution gets fucked up by district politics, but I assume you are saying that FEMA activily told a group of people to go fuck themselves.
Show threadJustUseMintFeb 29, 2024

Here’s a fantastic article to get you started:

npr.org/…/why-fema-aid-is-unavailable-to-many-who…

Ten years and thousands of comments later for forest fire management assistance after one of the historically worst ever forest fires in the region

oaklandnorth.net/…/preventing-the-next-oakland-hi…

Articles about multiple failures of FEMAs part in response to Katrina

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4331330.stm

FEMAs ridiculously slow response to Katrina:

web.archive.org/…/chi-050902daley,0,6429273.story…

FEMA sent hundreds of volunteer firefighters to Atlanta for sexual harassment training instead of to help with Katrina

web.archive.org/…/2005-09-07-firefighters-ga-katr…

How difficult it was to work with FEMA and other federal resources instead of local assets

web.archive.org/web/…/KatrinaContinuingStorm.pdf

Show threadLifeInMultipleChoiceFeb 29, 2024
FEMA doesn’t have rights to do anything except hand off shit to states for the most part. They can NOT make much of any decisions on their own. That is because it is considered an infringement upon states rights. Louisiana fucked up Katrina, not FEMA. Every one of these articles seems like people trying to pass blame. Give them the governing power to step in in an emergency and take over when the state drops the ball (99% of the time the issue) or dont complain about them following dopey mcdopes instructions and the end result being dopey.
Show threadYewbFeb 28, 2024
Oh just wait until insurance rug pulls all the policies this is what is going to kill Florida and Texas.
Show threadSculptor9157Feb 29, 2024
That sounds great, but it just means rising costs for the rest of us to cover the revenue loss from those states. An interesting consequence could be states removing insurance requirements, though…
Show threadFlying SquidFeb 28, 2024
Well they sure won’t start the climate change talk.