A VERY Active Tornado Spring

Given all the other indicators that the planet keeps getting warmer, I don’t think it would be wrong to call out climate change as one cause for the severe weather and tornado outbreaks that we’ve seen this spring.

All across the plains and through the southern and coastal areas of the United States there have been sometimes scores of tornadoes touching down almost every day.

I was talking to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employee just yesterday about the pace and breadth of damages. My point was that I don’t see how FEMA can keep up based on the number of people they have, and the need to hopscotch from one disaster to the next.

I also saw where the FEMA regional administrator was tapped to go work on the anticipated influx of refugees that are expected when the COVID-19 restrictions that have limited immigration for two years are lifted.

It does feel as though there is a box on a wall that is labeled “FEMA — Break glass in case of emergency, no matter what the emergency is about.”