(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-October-10C%2C-2024.pdf
A Note to Readers
A theme I have often used in these reports is how our national and some state leaders possessed the determination and vision to accomplish great projects, mobilize and inspire the American people with great missions, and accomplish what most today would think to be impossible.
We have one more example before us. That is the Biden-Harris administration response to the two hurricanes that have devastated half-a-dozen states, and Florida twice in the past two weeks.
The flooding, tornadoes, and extreme winds have killed more than 200 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, wrecked infrastructure beyond what has been seen in the nation in decades.
The virtual casual response of the Biden-Harris administration is summarized by the failure to even get the U.S. Military troops on the ground for almost a full week. And now the administration of FEMA informs us that all of FEMA’s funds for hurricanes for the rest of the year is exhausted.
The administration should have weeks ago called the U.S. Congress back into session to allocate more funds, especially by the moment that the second hurricane was forming more than a week ago. And probably much sooner.
In January 1937, a series of torrential rains pelted the Ohio River Valley and left a trail of disaster. The next year, 1938, the Great New England Hurricane struck on Sept. 21. The fast-moving monster storm killed at least 682 people, and injured more than 1,700.
The nation had real leaders then. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in both disasters had thousands of troops, Civilian Conservation Corps workers, Works Progress Administration workers on the ground in less than 24 hours. They rescued people, build dikes, rebuilt dams, fed people, and a thousand other tasks.
Today, it has been the residents of the region who are the drivers rescuing people and repairing infrastructure.
Three days after North Carolina was devastated, Donald Trump was on the ground there bringing in food, water, clothing and other goods. Biden and Harris did not show their faces in the area until late last week.
Since we are on the topic of hurricanes, the report this week will conclude with an article by my associate Hunter Cobb, from Promethean Action: “No Kamala, Hurricanes are Not Getting Worse Due to Climate Change.”
