US leaves Hurricane Helene survivors behind while funding Israel’s genocidal war. As the death toll from the storm climbs to 204, Congress has made no efforts to secure more disaster relief funding.
Whatever they're telling us you know it's gotta be way, way worse. They had to canvas all the houses in NOLA before they could get an accurate count. Not sure if that's been done yet, or being undergone
It doesn’t, and notably there are a decent number of people who are still classified as “Missing” from Katrina. We’ll probably never know the exact number of people killed by this, it’ll be a range
depressing, they keep more data on us than they could even know what to do with and we'll just have a range of missing people, it shouldnt be that hard to figure out who is missing in this day and age
My aunt worked for fema and resigned after spending a year of her own time data cleaning and annotating an image of the disaster damage database, only for HQ to go "thanks" and leave it to gather dust in archive.