In Hello Internet, CGP Grey's old podcast, he complained about Londoners complaining about heat waves. The heat waves seemed to come every year, right around the same time.
Saying something is a disaster is totally different from saying it falls under the purview of FEMA. Like cold snaps, heat waves are reliable, predictable weeks in advance, and a disaster only if our public infrastructure is already a failure. I realize the same could be said of something like Hurricane Katrina, but the greater scale and lesser frequency of such failures put them in a different class. I don't support stretching FEMA's already paper-thin resources even thinner.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 10.5 ms ] threadSaying something is a disaster is totally different from saying it falls under the purview of FEMA. Like cold snaps, heat waves are reliable, predictable weeks in advance, and a disaster only if our public infrastructure is already a failure. I realize the same could be said of something like Hurricane Katrina, but the greater scale and lesser frequency of such failures put them in a different class. I don't support stretching FEMA's already paper-thin resources even thinner.