I keep seeing all sorts of stuff about FEMA being all sorts of things but isnt it just the US government being able to move in and help out?
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It’s consistent with recent upticks in not trusting government agencies, primarily due to the spread of misinformation. In this case, bad actors said FEMA workers told residents the agency planned to take possession of private property/land damaged by the storm. They also claimed that FEMA ran out of funds, denied financial aid to damage victims, or prevented citizen volunteers from providing aid to stranded survivors. All the claims have a tiny little bit of truth which partisan hacks use to rile up low-information viewers who live in their information bubbles. In reality, emergency response and post-disaster mitigation work require small “cities” to be erected and fully operational within a day in an area ravaged by disaster to provide numerous types of relief services such as distributing food and essentials, organizing and deploying workers and volunteers, assess the damages to determine priorities, and erect the field operation areas for the deployed staff, among countless smaller tasks. A single video taken 12 hours after the storm showing damage not being addressed by FEMA gets spun into “Biden’s response too slow to help victims because resources currently busy giving transgender surgery to illegals who eat your cats!”
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