After Pathetic FEMA Performances In Multiple States, Natural Disaster Survivors Want Noem Fired
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FEMA has faced backlash for delaying nearly $11 billion in promised reimbursements for states last year. In April, meanwhile, the agency said it was ending a program that helped fund measures to reduce disaster risk and canceling already-awarded grants, all while climate change is making large-scale weather disasters more likely and more intense. After 20 states sued, a court ruled in December that FEMA can’t do that.
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Among the changes Noem made is that expenditures above $100,000 require her personal sign-off. That’s caused delays getting aid out as disasters happen, including in Texas last summer. As floodwaters overtook several Hill Country towns, FEMA could not quickly get search and rescue crews from across the country into position there because they were awaiting Noem’s approval, CNN reported.
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Gerstner and most of those affected by the Hill Country floods were stranded for days without power or water. It was neighbors, volunteers and local emergency response crews who helped, she said. Official help was scarce. It took more than 72 hours for FEMA to arrive, she said. When Noem celebrated FEMA’s response, Gerstner could not believe it. She called that characterization “a lie that insults the memory of those lost in the floods
In Missouri, initial cleanup efforts after the tornado took weeks. In California, only a handful of homes have been repaired despite more than 13,000 structures destroyed in the Los Angeles-area wildfires. In North Carolina, some 16 months after Hurricane Helene, survivors are desperate to move on with their lives. Talley has lived in eight places since Helene and said her friends and neighbors can’t continue to support her indefinitely. Despite being unable to live in her home after the storm, she said she’s still on the hook for her mortgage. “We desperately need answers and resources from FEMA,” she said, tears welling.
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29012026/disaster-survivors-want-kristi-noem-out-of-fema/
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over you getting money to recover from a disaster. And those cosplaying photo ops, doncha know. That takes priority over everything else.
