Yea right. I like climate change. Where I sit right now used to be under a couple of miles of ice during the Ice Age. Had the climate not changed that ice would still be here. Climate change is part of the NATURAL earth cycles.
Catastrophic storms have occurred sense the dawn of time. they didn't really start tracking hurricanes until sometime in the 60's. So they base the claim of storms prior to that on reported data based on damage cause not on wind speeds, storm surge and other data. Plus prior to the colonization of the Americas there is no real historical record. They do know because of geologist that some areas now dry land were once under the sea. Some deserts used to be jungles while some jungles were deserts.
As far as the wild fire? those too have occurred sense the dawn of time. Mother Nature cleaning up the forest. The problems we are having now with the are a direct result of tree huggers and home owners. The home owners who live in fire prone areas demand that these fire be put out. Meaning that the deadfalls and underbrush don't get cleaned out. Meanwhile the tree huggers have stopped many logging operations even those that only take the usable dead falls and still standing dead wood. That would be man cleaning out the forest instead of wildfire.
As far as the original topic? Companies have gouged the government sense the government first started buying things. The 417 dollar hammer being a good example of government stupidity. The contract for that had 28 pages of specification for a claw hammer. Each hammer was required to be inspected, weighed and tested several times in the manufacturing process. Those requirements didn't change for decades even though modern manufacturing eliminated the need to test each unit. When Harry Truman was still a senator he led the Truman commission charged with rooting out fraud and waste for the military prior to WWII. So this is not a new problem. FEMA is nothing more than one more government agency that really isn't concerned with getting the best bang for the buck. People would scream bloody murder if they wasted time trying to shop around for the best deal. They kinda operate with the "we need this, NOW, how much?" mentality. FEMA is kinda on the spot with this. They can't stockpile mobile homes or campers in case. The cost of maintain them for 5-6-7 or more years would be enormous. Plus if they did in fact stockpile them anytime new standards/codes came out they would have to upgrade or replace those homes.
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