FEMA sending Starlink satellites, search-and-rescue teams to aid Helene's victims
Source: Politico
09/29/2024 02:39 PM EDT
As Hurricane Helene’s impact continues to be felt, the states are turning to FEMA, the agency responsible for the federal response to hurricanes, to ask whether or not it has what it needs to deal with the storm. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell says it does.
“We absolutely have enough resources from across the federal family,” Criswell said to guest host Robert Costa on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “FEMA is one part of the team, and we have the ability to bring in all of our team members from many other federal agencies to support this response.”
The Category 4 hurricane made landfall in Florida on Thursday night and expanded quickly, wreaking havoc in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. As of Sunday morning, at least 64 people have died.
“This has been a true multi-state event,” Criswell said. She added that they’re “hearing significant infrastructure damage to water systems, communication, roads, critical transportation routes, as well as several homes that have been just destroyed by this. So this is going to be a really complicated recovery in each of these five states that have had these impacts.” The geographic scale of Hurricane Helene’s impact has been compared to 1972’s Hurricane Agnes, 1989’s Hurricane Hugo and 2004’s Hurricane Ivan by hurricane specialist Dan Brown.
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Hard to tell,, but I suspect they meant Starlink ground stations to get back online. If they moved some satellites to the flood area ... um, they wouldn't be in orbit anymore and not very useful to anyone 
Ofc they could be talking about changing some orbits to be flying over the flood zones more often, but I really don't think that makes much sense either.
