re: #35 FormerDirtDart

Amazingly, maybe inadvertently, Trump’s FEMA appointee appears to be an able, experienced crisis administrator:

My guess is nobody in the White House really gave a shit about the post so it went to someone sensible by default.

From reading the ProPublica story, the severity of the damage has been baked in the cake by decades of underinvestment in mitigation measures. FEMA has got what they’ve got right now. But after the water is gone, we’re probably going to have a worse internal displacement (er, refugee) problem than Katrina, and then the politics starts again.