Just in time for summer flood and fall hurricane seasons.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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Also during tornado season
My subdivision got fucking wrecked last month and the tornado missed my house by like 300 yards. 18 out of 36 houses destroyed and unlivable, the rest have roof and/or siding damage. Guess what’s on the weather radar for this weekend. More fucking twisters.
Summer fire season for many of us.
That, too.
You're on your own in Trump's America.
This is the self reliance they wanted. Thy got exactly what they wanted.
I still get emails from AmeriCorps every now and then. It was a fun year of camping in a tent and maintaining trails and such in remote parks, and then another fun year of working in an impoverished school with families who needed help applying for aid. It is mind boggling that these idiots think the best way of saving money is cutting people from the workforce who make a stipend (not even a wage, so it can be fucked with in taxes even more) of something like $11,000 a year... and thus losing labor that makes a large impact down the road.
Thanks for the work you did. These idiots haven’t a clue what they’re destroying.
I worked for a state government agency that had a bunch of Americorps volunteers working in our office and I became friends with most of them. They were in the office with us every day and they made $1000/month IIRC, and they were all on food stamps. Really dumb indeed to cut these people who do important work for a fraction of the cost of a salaried employee.
Firing volunteers to save money... What?
DOGE only makes sense if you assume the people in charge of it are a combination of stupid and actively trying to destroy the US. They should all be hanged.
Floods, wildfires, and hurricanes are gonna be hard to sweep under the rug.
given its a military alternative they definitely don't want it around.