Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Mississippi Tornado Survivors Await Assistance from FEMA

Mississippi's request for federal aid is still pending before the Federal Emergency Management Agency, meaning badly needed assistance has not yet made it to his hard-hit community of Tylertown.

Posted by lamplighter at 08:33 PM | 28 COMMENTS | permalink

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Mississippi's request on federal aid for tornado survivors is still pending, offering a glimpse into what could be in store for communities around the country as the summer storm season arrives and FEMA is mired in turmoil.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) May 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM

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... It is not unusual for weeks to pass before FEMA approves a declaration. President Donald Trump has pointed to these waits as a reason he is considering dismantling the agency, calling FEMA "very bureaucratic" and "very slow."

The wait offers a glimpse of what could be in store for communities around the country as the summer storm season arrives and FEMA is mired in turmoil. States including Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma have already been battered with tornadoes this week, setting the stage for more disaster requests to FEMA. And the Atlantic hurricane season is just around the corner.

FEMA is able to respond quite effectively in many ways, but "getting the resources to those communities after the fact has been slowed," said Susan Cutter, a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina and co-director of the Hazards Vulnerability & Resilience Institute.

In coming disasters, Cutter said ,she anticipates seeing slower progress in getting needed resources to communities in a timely manner. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-20 02:33 PM

Sounds like Brian Lowery didn't get the memo.

Only The Weak Will Fail!

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-20 02:41 PM

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#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-20 04:27 PM

@#3

Yeah, in the past there have been response issues with FEMA, but in the end, they also came through.

Post-DOGE will FEMA have the wherewithal to come through for Americans during the current severe storm season, and then, later, into the hurricane season?

Time will tell.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-20 06:12 PM

I guess this is going to be the new norm...

OCU

#5 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-05-21 12:50 AM

Welcome to Trumplandia

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-21 02:17 AM

Bootstraps

#7 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-05-21 06:01 AM

Don't hold your breath.

DonOLD doesn't give a ---- about you.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-21 06:54 AM

Remember when Donny Two Dolls was lying about Biden not sending help to NC after Helene that led to FEMA agents being targeted by feral magats?

Why are no democrats out in front of these issues now?

OK
KY
MS
KS
AND NORTH CAROLINA who was told they get nothing else when they asked for additional help to recover.

This is why the democrats lose.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-21 06:58 AM

will FEMA have the wherewithal to come through for Americans

Read project 2025 and you tell me.

It is spelled out that FEMA should be killed in it.

Along with National Weather Service and here we had 27 fatalities and residents that survived said the warnings came too late and we see that the NWS storm prediction center in KY was one of the offices targeted for firings under DOGE.

This should be #1 agenda every single day.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-21 07:00 AM

Point and laugh at the magat scum.

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-05-21 07:30 AM

They always say, by either a tornado or a redneck divorce...... somebody's going to end up losing a trailer house

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-21 09:08 AM

re: #9 Nixon

They need to be touring these states. It can't just be Bernie and AOC and Tim Walz. Get out there with the people, for the people

#13 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-21 09:59 AM

somebody's going to end up losing a trailer house

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Trailer house?

Tell me you're a----------- hick without telling me you're a----------- hick.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-21 10:06 AM

This is turning out to be a perfect example of the rot in our society.

These folks voted for this but still expect to receive aid when they want it. Selfishness and short-sighted stupidity are so rampant, it took less than six months after an administration gutted these services for red states to start whining about the lack of assistance.

Most of these idiots will probably tell you with a straight face that this is a Chreestian country..

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-21 10:15 AM

" Mississippi's request for federal aid is still pending before the Federal Emergency Management Agency"

Sorry, MS, but you voted to axe FEMA. Just ask Dotard; he'll tell you.

How does it feel to wake up in Pottersville?

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-21 10:31 AM

somebody's going to end up losing a trailer house

#12 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Normally we don't make jokes and laugh about it while they are still suffering.

But Norm died.


#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-21 12:24 PM

Tell me you're a----------- hick without telling me you're a----------- hick.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-21 10:06 AM | Reply | Flag:

Go blow a trucker, dumbass.

#18 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-21 05:53 PM

re: #9 Nixon
They need to be touring these states. It can't just be Bernie and AOC and Tim Walz. Get out there with the people, for the people
#13 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-21 09:59 AM

Excellent advice, bro.

It would be hilarious if Bernie crashed a Kristi Noem photo op.

#19 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-21 07:02 PM

FEMA SCHEMA! Who needs help when you all got orange Donald, I lust for my daughter, pig traitor for POTUS?

#20 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-05-21 09:30 PM

My good buddy from high school fat and stoopid as he is bought a new truck and got a new job picking up contracts to supply food and water for FEMA and moved back to Ohio to start a couple of years ago. I bet he's pissed no contracts are coming anymore but will he still vote MAGA?

#21 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-05-21 09:34 PM

Tornadoes are a hoax. I don't believe anyone was affected by the Deep State weather AI.

Nobody in Mississippi needs FEMA, they're all rich Repubicans.

#22 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-05-21 10:40 PM

Laughing in Californian. Go --- yourself sh*thole state residents. You wanted to own the libs and CA in particular? Enjoy what you wanted for my state. At least my tax dollars won't be going into your pockets for this.

#23 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-05-22 01:53 AM

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"

#24 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-05-22 06:15 AM

FEMA Rescinds Strategic Plan Less Than 2 Weeks Before Hurricane Season
www.cbsnews.com

#25 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-05-22 06:17 AM

7 trillion in "tax cuts" is worth this "short-term deaths", guys.

Weather alerts are only saving the tiny percentage within the field of devastation and not necessarily servicing the greater community, such as the non-ravaged elevated estates where FEMA conveniently fails to provide even a minibar.

If those few "in harms way" are so selfish as to prevent a billionaire from buying the presidency and ending emergency services than I have no idea what American generosity actually is!

#26 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-22 04:35 PM

Mississippi Tornado Survivors Await Assistance from FEMA

Hey Mississippians! How do you like me now?

-- Kamala Harris

#27 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-05-22 05:52 PM

Go blow a trucker, dumbass.

#18 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Hey Cletus, you're the one who thinks a trailer is a house LOL

Oh that's never going away. Ever.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-22 06:08 PM

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