Re:FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes
by ascagnel_ on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:40AM
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> weather is just weather. we just blame God or "it happens" regardless of how bad it is. and most can be evacuated if we dont wait to the last minute to do it. we treat them like they're already mitigated.
Kinda? The effects of extreme weather can be mitigated (eg: don't build on flood plains), but we're seeing increasing cases where mitigation efforts are ignored and the adverse effects of that (ie: Hurricane Harvey in 2017, where neighborhoods in Houston that had been built on top of flood plains were inundated by storm surge). Mitigation is almost always cheaper than recovery.
While you can definitely mitigate some elements of terrorism (eg: remove cases where radicalization is likely), you can't mitigate it anywhere near as well as weather effects.
Re:FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes
by philwelch on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:49AM
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FEMA is also not responsible for the civil engineering of Houston (or New Orleans, for that matter). They’re in charge of managing emergencies, not preventing them.
Kinda? The effects of extreme weather can be mitigated (eg: don't build on flood plains), but we're seeing increasing cases where mitigation efforts are ignored and the adverse effects of that (ie: Hurricane Harvey in 2017, where neighborhoods in Houston that had been built on top of flood plains were inundated by storm surge). Mitigation is almost always cheaper than recovery.
While you can definitely mitigate some elements of terrorism (eg: remove cases where radicalization is likely), you can't mitigate it anywhere near as well as weather effects.