Right-wingers may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies do.
Flooding in Texas - 24 dead 20 children still missing from girl camp
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On the plus side, at least they can find trump at the golf course. Xi just disappears for 3 months, comes back and acts like nothing happened.
LOL
DOGE cut deeply and with a chainsaw. What they thought was "stupid" could likely be a vital service. Remember when they fired the watchdogs at the Department of Energy in charge of the nuclear arsenal? And then had to quickly re-hire them? You might think we have TDS....but we just know you're in a cult that believes anything Mango Mussolini says, and frankly, that is pretty fucking pathetic. Learn to think critically, and maybe you get some insight into what has happened and likely will continue to happen....
Asking Ritchie to think critically is like asking Trump to put some thought into tweets before he tweets them.
Ending FEMA is on the Project 2025 todo list.
Meanwhile, now that the atmosphere is warmer it can hold more water vapour and drop it all at once in these super storms.
This week it hit Mexico and China as well.
You seem to take my comments out of context. I'm not sure why this above is a follow-up to my posts on solemn responses to the tragedy. This is not meant to be a criticism but when people participate in multiple social media threads it's difficult to follow the context of conversations. I think almost everyone following the thread understands that I have stated it's perverse to be doing a racial analysis of the children at this time. That was the context.
However, if people want to analyze the Federal and State response in the moment that's fair and reasonable in my opinion.
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You're talking about yourself again, aren't you?
Lol...You actually fall for this junk?
The Helicopter rescue is classic...i absolutely love the reaction of chinese netizens pointing out ppl at ground level
in 20+ years in China, I've never seen a cop help anyone across the road
You think they need more flags???
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It's possible but it's a loaded statement.
Insurance companies have aggressively raised rates in the U.S. because of many factors.
First and foremost rapid inflation directly led to rapid premium increases.
Continued building close to historic coastal storm and fire zones and State's requiring that insurers lump such policies in a Statewide insurance pool.
State's allowing attorneys to liberally pursue claims against insurance companies. This seems fair but in practice it leads to everyone in a broad area pursuing new roofs every time there is an event regardless of need. There is an almost humorous industry of roofers aligned with attorneys that chase storms.
The difficulty of doing business in some States simply causes insurers to leave and the resulting reduction of competition leads to high premiums.
Insurance is one of those things that leaves many people confused. There are people who think that what good is insurance if they can't pull small claims that return their initial premium. Or people who think insurance is a right regardless of where they build or their lack of measures to protect and maintain the property.
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Apologies for post the gov't propaganda version, but that's what's available.
The point was posting the crazy, climate change amplified, floods.
Just to point out that its not just Texas, its a global issue with these new massive flash floods from storms that drop so much water.
That's just waffling.
Insurance companies understand that certain areas are now too much at risk for extreme weather events to continue to insure.
They can't even hike rates enough to cover their losses.
How can any company pay out for Texas flooding, Florida extreme hurricane, issues, Californian floods and extreme storms when you have to pay out for an entire town or city?
U.S. Insurers Are Refusing to Cover Climate Change Risk Zones | OilPrice.com
Insurers across the U.S. are increasingly refusing to cover homes in climate risk zones, leaving millions without insurance and threatening the stability of housing markets in affected areas.
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has backed away from abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Washington Post reported on Friday, ahead of the president's visit to flood-hit Texas.
No official action was being taken to wind down FEMA, and changes in the agency would probably amount to a "rebranding" that would emphasize state leaders' roles in disaster response, the Washington Post reported, citing a senior White House official.
Reuters could not verify the report and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump, who has previously called for FEMA to be shut down, was set to visit Texas on Friday, after flash floods swept through parts of the Texas Hill Country and killed at least 120, with more than 160 people unaccounted for.
Trump has frequently said he wanted states to have primary responsibility for responding to disasters. However, when asked by a reporter on Sunday whether he still planned to phase out FEMA following the Texas floods, Trump responded that it was a topic "we can talk about later".
"The president immediately delivered the dollars, Texas already has that money in their hands, and Governor [Greg] Abbott is the lead decision-maker when it comes to the Texas floods,” the White House official told the Washington Post.
Related video: Volunteers dig through Texas flood wreckage ahead of Trump visit (CBC)
We are aware we've been very weather alert throughout the
CBC
Volunteers dig through Texas flood wreckage ahead of Trump visit
"You should expect this structure, that has quietly taken place, to continue," the official added, according to the newspaper.
Trump signed a disaster declaration for Texas on Sunday to unlock federal aid for those affected.
The Texas floods, the first major deadly disaster since Trump took office in January vowing to gut or abolish FEMA, were a stark reminder of the extent to which states lean on the agency during a crisis.
(Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Sharon Singleton and Alex Richardson)
Trump administration scraps plan to abolish FEMA, Washington Post reports
No official action was being taken to wind down FEMA, and changes in the agency would probably amount to a "rebranding" that would emphasize state leaders' roles in disaster response, the Washington Post reported, citing a senior White House official.
Reuters could not verify the report and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump, who has previously called for FEMA to be shut down, was set to visit Texas on Friday, after flash floods swept through parts of the Texas Hill Country and killed at least 120, with more than 160 people unaccounted for.
Trump has frequently said he wanted states to have primary responsibility for responding to disasters. However, when asked by a reporter on Sunday whether he still planned to phase out FEMA following the Texas floods, Trump responded that it was a topic "we can talk about later".
"The president immediately delivered the dollars, Texas already has that money in their hands, and Governor [Greg] Abbott is the lead decision-maker when it comes to the Texas floods,” the White House official told the Washington Post.
Related video: Volunteers dig through Texas flood wreckage ahead of Trump visit (CBC)We are aware we've been very weather alert throughout the
Volunteers dig through Texas flood wreckage ahead of Trump visit
"You should expect this structure, that has quietly taken place, to continue," the official added, according to the newspaper.
Trump signed a disaster declaration for Texas on Sunday to unlock federal aid for those affected.
The Texas floods, the first major deadly disaster since Trump took office in January vowing to gut or abolish FEMA, were a stark reminder of the extent to which states lean on the agency during a crisis.
(Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Sharon Singleton and Alex Richardson)
Trump administration scraps plan to abolish FEMA, Washington Post reports
