...approved emergency declarations for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

The federal government sent 1,500 federal personnel to the region, as well as about 8,000 members of the U.S. Coast Guard and teams from the Army Corps of Engineers to provide emergency power. It provided two health and medical task forces to help local hospitals and critical care facilities, and sent in more than 2.7 million meals, 1.6 million liters of water, 50,000 tarps, 10,000 cots, 20,000 blankets, 70,000 gallons of diesel fuel, and 40,000 gallons of gasoline to provide supplies for those hit by the catastrophe.

Rather than request an emergency declaration, Tennessee governor Bill Lee proclaimed September 27 a “voluntary Day of Prayer and Fasting.”

Project 2025, DonOLD Trump's playbook should he win the White House, calls for slashing FEMA’s budget and returning disaster responses to states and localities. In which case republican governors can simply tell their constituents stuck on hospital and home roofs in the midst of catastrophic flooding in their states to to pray and fast.

Huh.

Substack: September 27, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson