{"id":43643,"date":"2026-01-21T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43643"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:25:24","slug":"an-incoming-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/21\/an-incoming-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"An Incoming Disaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t pay attention to the national weather scene, you may not be aware that a large, nay, even huge storm is about to pop up over the South, Midwest and upper East Coast, the result of abominably cold Arctic air sliding in underneath warm &amp; juicy air from the south &#8211; or at least that&#8217;s my understanding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/RyanHallYall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meteorologist Ryan Hall<\/a>. He&#8217;s describing it as historic in proportion and intensity, with freezing rain possibly destabilizing power networks, many inches of snow, and that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve not seen mentioned anywhere is <em>emergency response<\/em>, including that traditionally provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>FEMA<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (<em><strong>Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/strong><\/em>). While <em><strong>FEMA<\/strong><\/em> nominally still exists, it&#8217;s been disassembled and doesn&#8217;t even having an acting director, according to its <em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em> page. While I know anti-government types like to look down on <strong><em>FEMA<\/em><\/strong>, especially given its poor performance during Hurricane Katrina, in other disasters it has performed quite well and gets full marks, even from Republican governors.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in an area affected by this storm, please try to be prepared for it. Assume imminent catastrophe and prepare accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re a Federal official, please be aware that shrinking the Federal government by getting rid of <em><strong>FEMA<\/strong><\/em> is just another example of blind adherence to ideology. It&#8217;s my guess that if the storm does turn out to be historic, and I hope it doesn&#8217;t, there&#8217;ll be some Federal asses roasting over an out of control fire. Yes, including him.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Storm Just Got Much Bigger...\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vlprxvvOXRI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t pay attention to the national weather scene, you may not be aware that a large, nay, even huge storm is about to pop up over the South, Midwest and upper East Coast, the result of abominably cold Arctic air sliding in underneath warm &amp; juicy air from \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/21\/an-incoming-disaster\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43644,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions\/43644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}