It's also important to note that Trump completely re-organized FEMA and slashed its budget.

On June 10, 2025, the president formally announced plans to dismantle the agency following the 2025 hurricane season, with disaster response and recovery responsibilities transferred to individual states.

Two months earlier, Executive Order 14239, signed March 18, 2025, had already laid policy groundwork by mandating a shift from the longstanding "all-hazards" approach to national infrastructure resilience to a "risk-informed" model, directing a series of reviews intended to reformulate federal preparedness responsibilities and push operational authority toward state and local governments.

As it was, FEMA cancelled $11 Billion in disaster payments it had planned to give to 45 states in the last 2 months of 2025. FEMA said that it shifted the funds to fiscal year 2026, although it said nothing about when the funds would be paid out.

From the article below dated October 2025:

"If Congress approves Trump's budget request of $26.5 billion for FEMA aid, the agency would have only $15.5 billion available for new disaster spending through Sept. 30, 2026, if it reimburses the states what they're owed in pandemic costs.

FEMA has paid an average of about $50 billion a year in disaster relief from fiscal 2020 through 2024, according to the Congressional Research Service."


FEMA canceled $11B in disaster payments to states - E&E News by POLITICO

Trump FEMA nominee Cameron Hamilton seeks balanced disaster aid approach

It's something we have to track more closely now that we're in the ACC. Thankfully this year the earliest game in the mid/south Atlantic is at NCSt on Halloween, well past the peak season.

Also, in terms of hurricane frequency, as in terms of anything climate-related, you have to have a long historic frame of reference to better understand and interpret trends, here is the big picture for US hurricane activity:

"Yes, a sufficiently powerful hurricane could theoretically destroy Mar-a-Lago, but the estate is constructed like a fortress, making total destruction highly unlikely."


Don Jr dispatched to get case of Diet Coke during a Category 5.