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Originally posted by ktsnake
If you move to such an area, it should be your responsibilty. If FEMA did not provide this service, the municipalities, state, etc. could do a fine job I'm sure.
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No, the smaller municipalities CANNOT "do a fine job" after having their entire infrastructure destroyed. (This is what's going on right now with my hometown, which has basically been blown off the map.) There's only so much a small town can do--especially when the larger cities that might normally help them out in a crisis can't do it. Right now, in Florida, the state is stretched to the limit.
Three major hurricanes in a month, with every county of 67 having been declared a federal disaster area, exhausts the capabilities of a state rather quickly. I see no problem with the federal government stepping in when the situations are as severe as they are at this moment, when the state and local governments are stretched to their limits.
Until you experience a situation like this firsthand, you are in
no place to judge what people should have or should not have done.
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