re: #17 Jay C

Normally, it might: but this time around, the lack of new faces at the top means that FEMA management is most likely in the hands of professionals (or at the experienced), vs. whatever godawful hack Trump might impose on them,

I’m guessing the civil servants at FEMA can do nothing without authorisation from President Bannon.

That would mean conservatives get to punish California for all those illegal votes for Hillary Clinton (and for California being generally liberal).

It would not surprise me a bit if California gets a big FU just like New York and New Jersey got from Hurricane Sandy from red state Republicans.