Hurricane Helena devastation in NC!

[J Grant]

Is hurricane relief money going to migrants instead of disaster victims?​

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No, it is not. This claim is spreading so widely in the aftermath of Helene that FEMA set up a website to debunk it and other falsehoods.
Though FEMA and migrant relief programs are both part of the Department of Homeland Security, funds for each sit in separate accounts that are not intermingled. And the money earmarked for assistance to migrants can’t just be shifted to cover hurricane costs.

Still, former president Donald Trump has continued to repeat the falsehood about migrants during campaign rallies and on Truth Social, his social media platform.

 

[J Grant]

It looks like there was a mass evacuation from the Tampa area. FEMA and all agencies will be strained but are prepared. Idk what these storms will do with insurance rates a lot of displaced people- very scary till this storm passes over FL and hope it goes out to sea afterward -

 

[J Grant]

Is Congress expected to approve more disaster aid soon?​

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Congress is on recess until Nov. 12, after Election Day, as lawmakers focus on campaigning. But President Joe Biden said last week he could call lawmakers back to Washington for an emergency session to approve additional disaster aid.



House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has given no indication, however, that he plans to call members back to Washington early.
“Look, we’ll be back in session immediately after the election,” Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “That’s 30 days from now. The thing about these hurricanes and disasters of this magnitude is that it takes awhile to calculate the actual damages, and the states are going to need some time to do that.”
Yet Johnson and other congressional leaders could face mounting pressure to change course if Milton proves particularly costly. Initial estimates place private insured losses from Helene around $11 billion.
A group of more than a dozen House Democrats plans to write to Johnson on Wednesday urging him to reconvene the chamber to take up disaster funding bills.

“Recent legislation has provided initial relief funds, yet these provisions fall critically short of what will be necessary to address the scale of destruction and the recovery needs for Fiscal Year 2025,” the lawmakers write, led by Reps. Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Jared Moskowitz (Fla.), Dina Titus (Nev.), Melanie Stansbury (N.M.) and Kathy Manning (N.C.).

Trump puts himself before the good of country, and his cowardly party follows his lead. Jonson, unless it looks like he is stalling approving aid to hurt the Biden admin and allow the MAGA rumor mill to spin conspiracy theories. Just like the Republicans they killed the Bipartisan border bill because TRump called and told them not to sign it, so he could keep the border issue in chaos to use on his campaign trail. Perhaps the democrats and few ethical Republicans left can pressure a relief bill passed by congress /Johnson-.

 

[Carnivore]

All these Insurance claims expenditures will be spread out across the nation or regions , to all property owners in their premiums. Even automobile insurance will go up. Problem is this will also effect all of our automobile premiums. EV's are toast.

Throw in the climate change crazys and it gets even worse. I Just watched an update about the nc mountain region. One of the waste water treatment plant is destroyed . Not sure which one, but if it is the one that provides water to the city of Asheville well that's really bad. Asheville is a favorite 2nd and third home to very wealthy people in our nation. Those people have already gone back to new york city or california . You know who I am talking about hollywood types, well known authors etc all the white white-privilege crowd.

 

[J Grant]

All these Insurance claims expenditures will be spread out across the nation or regions , to all property owners in their premiums. Even automobile insurance will go up. Problem is this will also effect all of our automobile premiums. EV's are toast.

Throw in the climate change crazys and it gets even worse. I Just watched an update about the nc mountain region. One of the waste water treatment plant is destroyed . Not sure which one, but if it is the one that provides water to the city of Asheville well that's really bad. Asheville is a favorite 2nd and third home to very wealthy people in our nation. Those people have already gone back to new york city or california . You know who I am talking about hollywood types, well known authors etc all the white white-privilege crowd.

Climate change crazys??

Denying climate change is crazy. The storm in the mountains of NC is the symptom of climate change the sciences and climatologist have been warning about as water temps rise and rising sea levels affect the tributiores and rivefs that feed off it. The fast intensividcagtion of Milton is from warmer ocean temps.

The affected areas will bear most of the brunt of the rising home ownership insurance cost. FL has always paid far more as do most coastal areas. .

 

[J Grant]

First, the massive Hurricane Helene brought torrential, deadly rains hundreds of miles away from where it initially hit land. Now, Hurricane Milton is swirling toward the Florida coast, after catapulting from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in about a day — also ranking as the fifth most intense on record. While it may become somewhat weaker, it is expected to slam the Tampa Bay Region, bringing the potential for an ocean surge up to 10 to 15 feet.

Hurricanes require a lengthy recipe list to materialize, but scientists agree that one ingredient has been pushing these storms to new limits recently: ocean heat. Waters in the Gulf of Mexico started to break all-time temperature highs this summer, but recent weeks have seen an extra jolt of warmth — what scientists describe as a “marine heat wave” that provided additional fuel to the storms. After a lull earlier this summer, atmospheric conditions have also been more favorable for hurricane development recently.

 

[J Grant]

At the same time, scientists say, ocean heat has increased to record levels in recent decades due to human-caused climate change. The reason is simple: The oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, absorb most of the excess heat created by burning fossil fuels. Water also can absorb large amounts of heat with relatively little temperature change, making it a very efficient place to store all the trapped heat in the atmosphere.

Using computer models, an analysis from Climate Central said the record sea surface temperatures over the past two weeks were 400 to 80o times more likely as a result of climate change.

Under the heat wave, Radfar estimated Helene was 80 percent more likely to experience rapid intensification at its location based on historical observations. Rapid intensification is when a storm’s sustained wind speed increases by at least 35 mph in 24 hours. Helene, indeed, increased its wind speeds by at least 52 mph in 24 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center, one of the fastest rates of rapid intensification on record

 

[J Grant]

The pilots who fly into the storm - Air Force Hurricane Hunters are amazing.

 

[Zoe]

I talked to a person that has a relative that lives about 8 miles east of St. Pete beach. He is a rich man. He has the windows that are wind resistant. I think several friends are staying with him. I don't know if the storm surge will go 8 miles off shore or not. But I searched how far a storm surge can go and they said it can go as far as 30 miles from the shoreline. His house ain't waterproof or tornado proof. I don't know. His family may want to tell him anything they want to tell him today.

 

[ucbruin]

"All these Insurance claims expenditures will be spread out across the nation or regions , to all property owners in their premiums. Even automobile insurance will go up."


More of my MA insurance money and taxes....