With the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund is set to run out of money this fall, the Biden Administration announced on Monday nearly $3 billion in funding for hundreds of communities across the U.S.
The funds are meant to reduce their vulnerability to “climate-change-influenced” extreme weather events.
The money will come from the infrastructure bill passed by Congress and signed into law by Biden in 2021, and it will be distributed through two grant programs managed by FEMA.
- $1.8 billion will be for critical resilience projects through FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, and another $642 million will be for community flood mitigation projects through Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grants.
- The dollars will go toward 124 BRIC projects in 115 communities across 38 states, one tribe and the District of Columbia and 149 FMA projects in 28 states and D.C.
FGEMA says that its disaster relief fund, which is separate from its budget for mitigation projects, will fall into a deficit sometime between late August and early September if Congress and the Biden administration do not soon pass a funding bill or a continuing resolution.
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“Climate-change-influenced” extreme weather events?
What a BULL**** term that is.
It is weather, an absolute that can be observed and measured that creates what is called “climate,” which is a CONCEPT that cannot be measured nor quantified.
While weather is absolute, i.e. a falling barometer today means exactly what a falling barometer meant back in the 1600’s, or 2000 years ago, the same cannot be said for climate.
Simply stated, weather is the state of the atmosphere at a PLACE and TIME as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
Thus, the weather on the north side of an east-west running ridgeline can be and most likely will be entirely different from the weather on the south side, at the same time, even though they are separated by less than a mile.
It can be ninety in the sun on my front lawn, and all I have to do is walk so many feet to stand under the trees on my property, and have it be 20 degrees cooler,
As to climate, it is the weather conditions prevailing in AN AREA in general or over a long period.
So, since it is always sunny on my front lawn when the sun is shining, while at the same time, under the trees, it is 20 degrees or so cooler, every year, that means that right in front of my house, I have not one, but two climates, and if I drive about two miles over a ridge to the other side, the weather and hence, the climate, is entirely different.
More than once, I have seen it rain on one side of a road, and not the other, so that means that one side of the road is one climate, while the other side of the road is a different climate, which is an indication of just how ******* STUPID, MORONIC, and IDIOTIC this “Climate-change-influenced extreme weather events” BULL**** has become.
So, if I am on the side of the road where it isn’t raining with a wagon load of haybales, looking across the road, where I have to take the haybales, where a downpour is occurring, is that a “climate-change-influenced extreme weather event” taking place on the other side of the road?
Was the rainstorm on top of the mountain that caused the South Fork Dam to fail on Friday, May 31, 1889, unleashing 20,000,000 tons of water that devastated Johnstown, Pennsylvania a “climate-change-influenced extreme weather event?”
Or was it simply a rainstorm?
Was the September 3, 1935 Labor Day hurricane that struck Craig Key with sustained winds estimated at 185 mph (300 km/h) and gusts exceeding 200 mph (320 km/h) a “climate-change-influenced extreme weather event?”
How about Nevis, which was “nearly ruined” while several ships were wrecked off the coast of St. Kitts by the San Zacarias Hurricane of 1713 a “climate-change-influenced extreme weather event?”
Or was it simply weather?
All of which leads to this simple question, to wit: JUST HOW STUPID DO WE HAVE TO BE TO BE CONSIDERED A “GOOD AMERICAN” TODAY?