Weeks after a Category 4 hurricane caused “biblical disaster” to areas that the federal government appeared to have abandoned, inhabitants of flooded out cities across Appalachia have been forced to rely on donation relief efforts. While Hurricane Helene brewed over the Atlantic, the world’s pre-eminent disaster company was evidently distracted by fears of “equity” and” weather endurance” over emergency preparation.
As Americans rely on neighborhood first responders and private helicopters rather than the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) in their search for resources, the death toll from a storm exceeded 100 on Monday morning. While FEMA regularly prepares for massive rescue procedures in the days leading up to big winds, it was obvious that residents of the Eastern towns were unable to receive such pre-staged assistance in the wake of the storm’s torrential downpour.
Deanne Criswell, the executive of FEMA, was questioned about the destruction in Tennessee and North Carolina in an interview that was released on Sunday. She was in Florida this weekend when the hurricane made land.
” I believe it’s nine search-and-rescue clubs in North Carolina”, Criswell said, with “more that are coming in today”.
” We’re sending in more assets”, the FEMA key added,” to make sure we can get to somebody that’s been impacted by this, people that are also isolated from the effects of the storm”.
Moving sources, however, does not imply that they were present and prepared for use in the weeks following the storm. The company’s lack of strategic measures may be explained by the federal government’s mentioned values.
According to FEMA’s website, storm preparation does n’t even rank among the top two priorities of the federal relief agency. FEMA’s stated goals include, first, developing “equity as a basis of disaster control”, and second, to “lead full of neighborhood in climate resilience”. Third is achieved by an administration that is persuaded to “promote and maintain a set FEMA and determined society” at every degree of the federal bureaucracy. One of President Joe Biden’s primary visits was former White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice to lead the Local Policy Council, when he took the oath of office. She was given the task of making “rooting out structural racism” a central component of their mission.
On Sunday, President Biden declined to pledge more resources to Americans drowning in what authorities are calling “unprecedented” death.
” We’ve given everything that we have”, Biden told reporters as he boarded a plane back to Washington.
Are there any additional sources that the federal government might be able to provide them? a columnist asked.
” No”, the president said.