Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not authorize the deployment of Federal Emergency Management Agency urban search-and-rescue teams in the Texas Hill Country flood disaster until more than 72 hours after the crisis began, CNN reported on Wednesday.This follows rule changes th...
I’m not passing judgement on good or bad, I’m asking “Isn’t that how it always is?”
If you send rescue workers into the middle of a violent storm, then you have to rescue the rescue workers.
No, it isn’t how it is. Obama signed emergency declarations for Sandy before the storm even landed. Katrina was the biggest emergency fuck up in American history and its telling that you’re pointing to that as your sense of normal.