FEMA Head Admits in Internal Meetings He Doesn’t Yet Have a Plan for Hurricane Season

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RF-blamo@reddit

The plan is: Hurricane come. You die.

It’s the cheapest option for the current regime.

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We have 47 and Elon to thank for this mess. They have so much money they can’t even imagine what it would feel like to have to sacrifice or go without food, medical care, medicine, etc. But guaranteed, more Americans will than we have in decades.

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Childless_Catlady42@reddit

Seeing as how the feds aren't going to use the tax dollars from the states for disaster relief, it is time for the states to start planning and saving.

A good start would be to withhold federal taxes and keep them for the tax payers in their own state. There is no reason for CA to pay for flood relief in Kentucky when they have their own wildfires to deal with.

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Rooooben@reddit

They can’t, the feds are taking it right out of our checks. The states aren’t involved in collecting our federal income taxes - we would have to co-opt all of the payroll systems to redirect the funds at their level. Pass a law that all income taxes are redirected to the state, I don’t know.

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Childless_Catlady42@reddit

That is not correct. Your companies payroll department/person is the one responsible for sending your federal income taxes to the feds. They are also the ones responsible for sending your state tax money in and for paying your Unemployment insurance and FICA taxes.

If they fail to do this for you, all of those entities will expect YOU to come up with the shortfall because they never got the money.

The money doesn't automatically go to the feds, someone has to push a button to make it happen. That same person could stop pushing the button if directed to do so.

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Mindless_Listen7622@reddit

> Seeing as how ~~the feds aren't~~ Donald Trump isn't going to use the tax dollars from the states for disaster relief

This has only been an issue since Donald Trump became President. It's not "the feds" -- it's Donald Trump specifically and Republicans generally. I'm sure if your state pledges fealty to the King it may get some dough, once.

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Childless_Catlady42@reddit

West Virginia was called for trump before the polls closed. Floods have happened, people have died, people are homeless. Donny hasn't even bothered to come and throw us some paper towels.

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ParallelPlayArts@reddit

Arkansas voted for Trump and their funding request was denied, so I don't think even fealty is enough to get money.

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guccigraves@reddit

What fucking plan? States take operational lead on disaster response. I feel like most people have no idea what FEMA actually does.

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Sabre_One@reddit

Places like South Carolina are screwed. Lot of southern states really can't afford to deal with natural disasters, or have governors who refuse to address them.

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Street_Moose1412@reddit

The whole point of FEMA is you can recover from disasters using a larger risk pool (the whole country instead of one state) and using the sterling credit of US Treasuries.

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askf0ransw3rs@reddit

You mean that sterling credit rating that was just downgraded?

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danvapes_@reddit

Isn't the first time it's been downgraded, likely won't be the last time either.

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SniperPilot@reddit

Not gonna lie, when I moved to Texas I knew I was on my own, and I think a lot of people should realize that and expect that. Hell half the people brag about not being reliant on government anyways.

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Jokierre@reddit

I would say that I’m thankfully in Upstate and not coast, but that didn’t stop last year’s NC debacle (that continues to fuck over many). McMaster is an absolute joke for SC.

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_itsybitsyspider_@reddit

Yes he is

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_itsybitsyspider_@reddit

Lol South Carolinians along the coast will turn real fuckin' fast if another Hugo hits 😂

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Oolongteabagger2233@reddit

Oh no

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throwaway24058725402@reddit

Some of us live here dude

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Pando5280@reddit

Add in municipal governments with shoestring budgets and near zero experience with disaster prep let alone navigating the rebuilding process after large natural disasters and its gonna be eye-opening for a lot of people for sure.

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The_Dead_Kennys@reddit

Honestly at this point I’m legit surprised to hear FEMA still exists at all. I fucking hate this timeline.

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Huntduxin25@reddit

Republicans suck

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AmericanoChica@reddit

What a shock - NOT

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TheNightWitch@reddit

FEMA’s current plan: “1%ers will be fine, so no worries here.”

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jellyfishbake@reddit

Poor planning leads to poor performance. People are likely to die who otherwise FEMA would have been able to save as a result.

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DapperDame89@reddit (OP)

Exactly why I encourage everyone to prepare as much as they can.

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Sister-Ruth@reddit

FEMA evacuation plan: RUN MOTHER FUCKER RUN

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FullyUndug@reddit

Better plan now because they ain't coming.

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Ed-the-Dread@reddit

From what I've seen, people in Florida at least operate that way already just through experience

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FullyUndug@reddit

For sure. That's smart move.

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Pando5280@reddit

My guess is insurance companies will deny more claims now that it's a more industry-friendly administration. I just think back to Hurricane Katrina and how many flood claims got denied due to shady insurance practices due to not wanting to decimate their bottom line by actually paying claims.

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Joe_Exotics_Jacket@reddit

You as a tax payer subsidize that flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program. There is some regulation on what claims they can and can’t pay out.

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Bimfoot@reddit

It's always a good idea to piss off the folks with nothing left to lose.

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NotFrozenAnymoreMF@reddit

Good point. The also demolished the consumer protection bureau so itll be harder for those affected to file complaints. This sucks.

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paddenice@reddit

The hurricanes or the plans for them?

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FullyUndug@reddit

Oh, the hurricanes are coming. I can almost garuntee that lol.

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_itsybitsyspider_@reddit

I don't want anyone hurt but I am anticipating hurricane season like never before and I grew up in Florida

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Alarming-Art-3577@reddit

Biden lost the keys to the weather dominator. All hurricanes are just natural ones now 😄

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LotPuck@reddit

Weather dominator?

Like a sharpie?

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Alarming-Art-3577@reddit

In the 80s cartoon G.I. Joe, the bad guys build a machine to control the weather called the weather dominator.

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LotPuck@reddit

Sounds like one of those military grade sharpies!

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paddenice@reddit

Ahh I’m a little young for 80s cartoons but I like where your head is at.

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paddenice@reddit

That’s how hurricanes form nowadays don’t you know? And luckily for us, a sharpie is all that is needed to track a hurricane too, not like NOAA or anything scientific like thar

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Apophylita@reddit

The hurricanes, you mean?

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Cougar8372@reddit

lol rofl roflmmfao!!!

COVFEFE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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schlongtheta@reddit

... to the surprise of no-one. :(

Here's what's going to happen:

The administration is going to point to the failed government weather service (that has defunded) for missing important lead-times on whatever storm devastates the gulf coast next. This will be used as an excuse to eliminate that weather service and privatize it. The result will be a weather service that is loaded with ads, more expensive, and that does not come close to what the old government weather service provided. Americans will cheer this on as a progress.

RemindMe! 3 years

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schlongtheta@reddit

It's already happened, the day I posted this a weather reporter wrote:

"Today was likely the first tangible impact from recent budget cuts. Jackson, KY is understaffed and now unable to operate 24/7

This resulted in communities receiving delayed warnings for a large, dangerous tornado. As we’ve been screaming for months this degradation costs lives!"

https://x.com/amarkowitzWX/status/1923594082389021075

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Sudden_Acanthaceae34@reddit

The plan is for BlackRock to buy what’s left of your land for pennies on the dollar and charge you 2x market price to rent from them.

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jfun4@reddit

Wouldn't shock me. They don't want us normal folk to own anything ever. They want us to rely on them for everything

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Blueporch@reddit

Maybe we can just get EVERYTHING through our Amazon Prime membership

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AlphaNoodlz@reddit

It’s a subscription package at birth for life necessities

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PastaFiend0629@reddit

This comment is not high enough in the thread. Not having a plan yet is the plan because Capitalists don’t care about everyday Americans. We are merely chattle in the process of manufacturing shareholder value.

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Sudden_Acanthaceae34@reddit

I just wonder what happens when we have no more value to be extracted. They want to pay us nothing, yet overcharge for everything.

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Big_Fortune_4574@reddit

They found more natural gas under the US than could ever be extracted in our lifetimes.

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Irverter@reddit

Societal collapse

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vlntly_peaceful@reddit

Then they will have to find a way to cost efficiently offload assets that no longer generate value.

I'll leave it to your imagination what that could mean.

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zeke10@reddit

Doubt they really thought that far ahead. They don't seem to ever think very far ahead when it comes to greed.

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PalePhilosophy2639@reddit

In the movie “ready player one” they have debt services so you can work it off for slave wages.

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4r4nd0mninj4@reddit

Bingo^^

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AssociateJaded3931@reddit

Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

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mojeaux_j@reddit

Wait I thought the deep state was controlling hurricanes? Trump defeated the deep state so no more hurricanes. /S

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Dzjeek@reddit

I think you are mistaken.

The Biden family creates hurricanes. The deep state are the ones with the space lasers

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bs2k2_point_0@reddit

No, that’s the Jews who have the space lasers. Shalom mother f’ers!! /s

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Effective-Ebb-2805@reddit

Don't y'all worry y'all's pretty little heads about it... Hurricanes are just a liberal CCP hoax, like covid, radiation, climate change... and the curvature of the Earth. S/, of course...

What matters is all the money we're saving in order to fund tax cuts for the rich and the oil giants that are (just coincidentally, I'm sure) helping hurricanes get stronger and less predictable. The insurance companies will be alright, too, in case you're worried about them.

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DefiladeSlut6@reddit

Man saying “concepts of a plan” isn’t even funny anymore

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

How about:

Concepts of a plan to hold a meeting to discuss the possibility of adding an action item to the agenda

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Professional_Use7753@reddit

How about:

A meeting to start the discussion of a meeting to have about the concepts of a plan to hold a meeting to discuss the possibility of adding an action item to the agenda

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Leopold_Porkstacker@reddit

You can’t just do that without a pre-meeting planning get together.

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ParallelPlayArts@reddit

You'll need a concept of a plan for that pre-meeting planning get together too.

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Leopold_Porkstacker@reddit

Good call, should we whomp up a strategy while we’re at it?

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Holiday_Speaker6410@reddit

Though we might want to hold off on that until I get a possible agenda for the concepts of a plan to hold a meeting to discuss the possibility of adding an action item to the agenda.

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biggesthumb@reddit

It wasn't funny when trump said it. That's the point.

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swalker6622@reddit

I’m ashamed at myself but feel the red states areas need to get hit to realize their mistake in electing this monster. Certainly a lot are too sucked into the cult. Maybe a critical mass will turn around. Scammers will thrive for those that have any money or insurance.

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noturningback86@reddit

But it doesn’t matter how many people voted for who because the elections were all rigged. Both parties are the same, they all work work the same people

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replicantcase@reddit

It'll happen. Give it a few months once the season starts. There won't be an El Niño/Niña to create wind shear to slow them down, and our oceans continue to get hotter and hotter, fueling stronger and stronger hurricanes to the point where I wouldn't be surprised if one of these red states gets hit by the first Cat 6 hurricane.

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xThomas@reddit

Climate bout to go crazy this year

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Onyourmarkgetset100@reddit

The Head of FEMA probably doesn’t have a plan because he has no staff or budget left to write or enact a plan.

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_itsybitsyspider_@reddit

Hard to have a plan when you've been gutted.... Entrails on the floor

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PenImpossible874@reddit

Lol florida voted for this

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No-Thought2096@reddit

He left enough wiggle room to let them bail out red states while leaving blue states to their own devices.

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_itsybitsyspider_@reddit

Yeah Orange Felonious would probably bail out Florida

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_itsybitsyspider_@reddit

Lol hard to have a plan when you've been gutted

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Substantial_Fox5252@reddit

Plan is to hire the Florida wizards. Ask for less hurricanes and maybe a bigger penis. You voted for it. Good luck to us all.

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AQuietViolet@reddit

Florida, eh? Must be grand

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Substantial_Fox5252@reddit

yes, grand wizards. Weird how all their clan ranks sound like something from harry potter.

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HeronOrganic3727@reddit

OP definitely did not vote for this

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Striper_Cape@reddit

They aren't going to be helping anyone because federal disaster declarations won't be handed out. So this tracks

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doombuzz@reddit

I’m sitting around waiting for years now for fema money after my house burned down after the government started a forest fire. Over three years now. It’s never coming. We are on our own.

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ManOf1000Usernames@reddit

Might want to ask a lawyer to see about getting the juice now, before the fruit is left to rot

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Striper_Cape@reddit

I'm sorry that you were failed

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ParallelPlayArts@reddit

Start telling your neighbors and friends to get involved with CERT. This is my plan on top of the standard preps I keep. I'm hoping they get involved and at least know to have water... hopefully more.

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letsseeitmore@reddit

Blame Biden, that’s their plan for everything.

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SignificantSyllabub4@reddit

It’s a fucking template, the plan has been in place.

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RajenBull1@reddit

Does he even have a concept?

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CaptOblivious@reddit

People getting exactly what they voted for will really suck.

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bocwerx@reddit

Fail to plan = Plan to fail.

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VegetablePlatform126@reddit

Maybe he should hop on that right now.

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Vegetaman916@reddit

I thought we got rid of hurricane season? Wasn't there an executive order?

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bobolly@reddit

I have a plan... still cutting down trees but we'll be fine

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I-found-a-cool-bug@reddit

It sucks that people who tried to use their vote to prevent this administration coming to power have to get caught up in this stupid bullshit.

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litreofstarlight@reddit

Holy shit. Not American, but isn't hurricane season imminent...?

I hope people are prepared, cos help isn't coming :/

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thereadingbri@reddit

Yes, starts June 1st, but it probably won’t get particularly busy until August. Hopefully. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

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spacegiantsrock@reddit

He has a plan if you get in his way though.

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online_dude2019@reddit

Democrats control the weather. Now that we're not in power, it makes sense to defund FEMA and not waste time on a "plan". /s

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razorthick_@reddit

The hurricane preppers already know. Check up on your neighbors especially the elderly.

Flotation devices, water, non perishables are crucial. Hats and sunscreen! Ontop of dealing with a hurricane, you dont want to deal with the hot sun if you end up stranded outside. Ibuprofane, med kit in general.

Waterproof shoes/ boots. Rain coats, ponchos. Bagnof dry clothes.

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fishdishly@reddit

Damn.

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Bubbaganewsh@reddit

Good luck recovering from any hurricanes this year to the Gulf states, you're going to need it.

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MonkeeFrog@reddit

I don't really understand how you are supposed to have a plan for storms you don't know exist yet.

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Isaiah_The_Bun@reddit

Bahahahahahaha

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Main_Leadership_7968@reddit

You plan for the response and the logistics. When fema and nws are gutted citizens suffer and die needlessly. This is all part of project 2025. 8647.

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Ham_Pants_@reddit

And that's why you're not the female chief. And neither should this guy

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DapperDame89@reddit (OP)

This all comes goes to logistics and money. Do they have supplies, support, people on call that can be boots on the ground? Do you have more than you think you will need? That's how I would plan.

Personally: Have a go bag. Have food you don't need to heat to eat. Have medical supplies you can use until you can get to help.

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Throwaway2600k@reddit

You can at least forecast what supplies you need or are low so you can stock up.

Generator, water purification systems, MREs and to test generators and other systems.

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Unique-Sock3366@reddit

You cannot be a serious individual making a good faith statement.

We are preppers. You prepare by having a general plan that you then customize based upon your specific situation.

FEMA should have a general plan that is then customized for specific disasters.

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Sweaty-Feedback-1482@reddit

Why bother being prepared to save people from disasters when you can just blame Biden?

I wish I was joking and I wish it wasn't 1000% what's going to happen for real

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airborneben1@reddit

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