re: #53 Targetpractice

Well, FEMA’s again in a position that it can’t act because of funding limits and sequestration. Congress is in recess, and when they come back they’re going to have to deal with sequestration and the new budget year starting October 1.

The GOP is threatening yet another shutdown and debt limit fight that will end badly for the economy and anyone hit, or could be hit (between now and October 1 - we’re entering the heart of hurricane season) by natural disasters.

It’s not out of the realm of possibility that we see another Gulf Coast hurricane or tropical storm do massive damage to the coast, or an East Coast storm devastating the Carolinas. They happen all too frequently, and the feds come up with the money.

And the pipeline for new natural disaster declarations is likely to grow based on events already occurred - flooding across the Southeast, in PA and NJ this week, and across the Southwest including drought and floods.