How Florence Battered the Carolinas, Day by Day Hadley McGhee

Hurricane Florence, for the most part, is over. She has slowed to a category 2, but now comes the aftermath.
I think it’s time to talk about Katrina. While 17 deaths from Florence is nothing next to Katrina’s 1300, the main comparison here is to the approach of the government. Now that Florence has downsized, our new concern is of flooding, which destroyed entire zip codes in Louisiana. To be frank, the Bush Jr. administration’s approach never would have been enough- no amount of preparation can prepare a government for a disaster the size of Katrina. But for the first time since the Bush administration, we’ve had a president inept enough to repeat Bush’s epic failures. I’m not saying that we are definitely going to have the exact same problems we had in 2005, but I am saying that we have a president who has the potential to let that happen.
This is scary. While Florence isn’t the size of Katrina, it still has the potential to have the same problems. We need to channel the post-Katrina brotherhood to help our brothers and sisters in the Carolinas. Because if the elected will not protect them, the electors must.