Been following the disaster in NC. Lots of complaints

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9. The sad fact is

We are a topographically vast and spread-out nation that doesn’t have the resources to put the cumbersome, and often probably ugly, immense protections in place that would protect every dwelling in every area of every state from every imaginable natural disaster. Nor do we have the ability to locate, reach, help, shelter, feed, and clothe everyone who needs it after such a calamity strikes.

The best we can hope for is a benevolent-minded federal government willing to go all out, with whatever efficiency it can muster, and help as best it can, and with all resources it can come up with. State governors using political or religious reasons to hinder such efforts must be bypassed and, in extreme cases, temporarily sidelined. Legally dicey, obviously, but ask the cold, wet, starving family in rural Tennessee if that is a major concern of theirs right now. I’d rather have Joe Biden on my side now than Dick Cheney after Katrina.