FEMA chief Deanne Criswell has warned that the relief fund is expected to be depleted by the middle or end of August . FEMA has enough money to deliver an initial response to Maui . Congress must pass a billion supplemental funding bill for natural disasters it could delay recovery into next year . FEMA may potentially need more than $1 billion and is assessing that now . A lapse in funds could also impede the longerterm recovery process . FEMA will prioritize funding for ongoing disaster operations like Maui while setting aside additional money to respond and initiate recovery efforts for future storms . The federal government has tallied weatherrelated disasters that have each exceeded billion in damages a new record for the first seven months of the year according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . These things are getting bigger. Were not even in peak hurricane season yet and theyre projected to be in a deficit. That signals to me everything is out of whack. These things were getting bigger the official said . The official said. Were busier the official. Were busy and were busier . Last year including the bulk damage from Hurricane Ian Smith a climatologist who tracks these events told Adam Smith a year before the historic Northwest heat wave totaled $1.2 billion . The bulk of the bulk of which was totaled in the year . The death toll from the historic heat wave stood in 2011 totaled $2.5 billion . In the past year including . Sarah Salmonese. The year before. The last year including. Sarah Salmonse. In the last year included. The total of the . Northwest heatwave totaled $3.3 billion.million. and the total of this year’s ‘disaster.’ The total total of which .
FEMA’s disaster fund is slipping into the red before hurricane season even peaks . FEMA’s
