“President Biden approved emergency declarations for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina before Helene made landfall. Tennessee governor Bill Lee, a Republican, did not ask for such a declaration until this evening, instead proclaiming September 27 a ‘voluntary Day of Prayer and Fasting.’ Observers pointed out that with people stuck on a hospital roof in the midst of catastrophic flooding . . . an emergency declaration would be more on point.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-27-2024
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