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charlieg wrote: go back to the original post.
I read all of them. No clarity from that to answer my question.
Certainly the original disaster designation for a 'fire' was something that cities had been dealing with for centuries. Back then, far as I have seen, every city was a potential fire bomb just waiting to go off.
The follow on legislation specifically added storms. For which this fits. Storms of course vary by location but it is certainly true that Gulf states experience hurricanes and midwest states experience tornadoes. And many places experience snow storms. And of course floods. All of those have existed for a very long time.
So back to my original question - are none of them disasters? So the legislation should have never existed in the first place?
Or there is some specific recent even that you accept is a disaster and as such would qualify for Federal designation?
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If states all received back what they pay in federal taxes the federal taxes would just be local taxes by another route.
There's a clue in the name "United" States of America. "United" means inter alia helping each other, otherwise you may as well have 50 small countries each paying their own way, in global terms some moderately important, many insignificant.
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I agree 100% - which is why I was defending California & Illinois.
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Your statement makes a lot of sense and I agree 100%.
But anyway, I think better not to reignite the fire here 
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Quote: 4. No politics (including enviro-politics[^]), no sex, no religion. This is a community for software development. There are plenty of other sites that are far more appropriate for these discussions.
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noted.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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ditto
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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absolutely. "Welfare" - the act of the federal government taking money from one (taxes) and giving to another - was regularly disavowed by the supreme court - until Roosevelt packed the court.
government is NOT your savior. In the area I live, one of the local counties has a 20 minute 911 response time yet some of the highest taxes in the state. We're not talking police, we're talking FIRE. People called the local fire station only to be told to call 911.
Meanwhile in other news, our "enlightened government passed a bill for 1.7 trillion" - making yet another year that Congress has not passed a budget.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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This.
I was listening to No Agenda yesterday, a podcast that "deconstructs the news", and they played back some sound bites where one reporter was still calling this a "bomb cyclone" right after interviewing a meteorologist who defined what was needed to declare it as such (blah-blah-atmospheric pressure, blah-blah-needs-X-millibars, and this doesn't qualify at all). IOW, he was contradicting himself and kept using the name, just because it just sounds oh-so much more horrible and attention-grabbing...
Here, found the clip...this is the part where one says this does NOT qualify...greater discussion was part of the podcast itself (#1515, recorded on the 25th).
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The BBC is currently reporting on the 'extreme' weather the UK experienced in 2022. We had a month or two without much rain in the summer and a week or so of temperatures reaching over 30°C during the daytime, and in December we had a week or maybe 10 days in which we had a light sprinkling of snow with night temperatures dipping to as low as -5°C in places. Extreme? I hardly think so! The media just love to exaggerate and never let the facts spoil a good story.
The developers I know who work from home just have kept on, as you do....
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Maybe the problem is it's the wrong kind of snow?
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Just had to snow blow the driveway once a day from Friday to Sunday so the lake effect snow wouldn't pile up higher than the snow blower.
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In my part of Minnesota, we had temperatures consistently around -25 C, strong winds, and snow for several days.
The main hazards were poor visibility on highways, disrupted air travel, and a risk to exposed skin. Also repeated exposure to "the sky is falling" weather hype.
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Where I live we routinely get wind strong enough to be given a name in Florida. We call it a zephyr and use it to meet our neighbors when we go searching for our patio furniture.
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Wordle 556 4/6
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That's not a word in any civilised world!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 556 4/6
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True. Looks more like slang.
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Wordle 556 4/6
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It's American for "high rise flat" ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's American for "high rise flat" ...
... if it had a six letter latin-derived suffix to complete the word.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 556 5/6*
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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I thought this was a slang/abbreviation - not impressed.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It's in many dictionaries as a separate word: Google "Is ***** a word?" and you'll see how many.
It happens: language adapts to the changes to how it's users use it. Modern English is way, way different from the version from 1000 years ago. Heck, modern yoofspeak is differnet from that of last year ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Seems I watch too many movies! 
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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