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What Next TBD: Can FEMA Keep Up With Climate Change?

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Climate change is causing unprecedented severe weather. Is the agency prepared for it to get worse? Guest: Craig Fugate and Ashley Nerbovig Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.9

Not too long ago, I saw this quote from a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency

0:29.5

that made me sit up and pay attention. It was about the massive floods that swept through

0:35.0

Montana in mid-June and the people whose homes had been

0:38.1

damaged or destroyed. He said it really well here where he says, I always tell people this is a tough

0:43.1

line to tell people take responsibility for your own disaster recovery. That's Ashley Nervovig,

0:48.1

a senior political reporter for MTN News in Montana. She's been covering the floods and the

0:53.6

communities where people were told

0:55.2

not to wait on the federal government to come save them.

0:58.3

Maybe at some point you will get money back from us, but it won't make you whole, which I think

1:03.2

is like a very sensible approach from a spokesperson perspective, but then it goes back to the

1:08.6

policymakers of, okay, so what are we saying to these people

1:11.7

who had no reason to think that their homes were going to get flooded, that this is on them,

1:19.1

sort of? Those people whose homes flooded, many of them didn't have flood insurance,

1:24.2

largely because where they live is outside the regular floodplain, they didn't think

1:28.4

they needed it. But with climate change, that map is shifting. We had a once in every 500-year

1:36.6

flood in some areas based on the floodplains. It was like a once-in-a-thousand-a-thousand-year

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