Colorado Flooding
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UPDATED: Monday, April 7, 2025 14:40
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Very sad to see this, glad to hear people are safe
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Welcome Metallic! Don't be down here, tho' unless you can "take the heat"; this forum gets pretty nasty.
From what I can find, FEMA goes right on, hampered but active:Quote:
DENVER - Despite the federal government shutdown, FEMA says it will continue to help with Colorado flood recovery.
FEMA spokesperson Dan Watson told 7NEWS Reporter Lindsey Sablan there will be some cuts made to personnel, but it will not have an impact on flood recovery.
In an email, Watson wrote: "FEMA remains committed to supporting disaster survivors. Our ongoing response operations, such as the individual assistance being provided to survivors of the flooding in Colorado, will not be impacted directly by a government shutdown. FEMA's response to disasters and emergencies is funded by the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF), which would not initially be affected by a funding lapse for annual appropriations."
The DRF is a standing fund that continues on from one fiscal year to the next, so a lapse in annual funding doesn't have an immediate impact. Right now, there are more than 1,000 FEMA staff, many known as reservists, who are responding to flood recovery in Colorado. Watson said that number would not decrease due to a shutdown. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/september-flooding/fema-flood-
relief-will-continue-in-event-government-shutdown]
Apparently the state is picking up the cost of the National Guard in the interim, so they'll keep on working, too:Quote:
Now that the U.S government has officially shut down, Colorado will be providing the funding the National Guard members who continue to aid in flood relief efforts across the state, Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) announced Tuesday.
"The state is going to pay the costs," Hickenlooper said in a Tuesday press conference. Under the shutdown, an estimated 800,000 workers could be furloughed, but the state is using money from its emergency relief fund to cover the National Guard costs until the government opens back up again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/colorado-flood-government-shu
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FEMA has put out $32 million so far to those poor people. My sympathies to your friend, it's awful when stuff like that happens!
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As long as the pot crop wasn't destroyed everything will be just fine.
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fires, mass shootings, floods...
seems they have their priorities
if you say the wrong thing to a cross dressing LGBTQRS HeITSHethemThey thing its a 'Hate Crime' so say the moonbat lunatics
Colorado Democrats roll out bill to consider ‘misgendering’ a ‘discriminatory’ act
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3366504/colora
do-democrats-transgender-bill-courts-misgender-discriminatory/
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