Over at Esquire, Charles P. Pierce notes that the National Weather Service alert for Hurricane Laura actually includes the word "unsurvivable" in it. I think they only mean that for the hardest-hit sections which may (let's hope) be sparsely-populated areas. But it's going to be awful. Pierce then goes on to write…
Meanwhile, of course, huge hunks of Northern California are burning down. And all of this happens during a worldwide pandemic. I may be crazy, but this doesn't seem like the best time to have an administration that believes the climate crisis to be a Chinese hoax and that, generally, judges science to be whatever makes the president look less bad.
Oh, well. At least the folks in the path of Hurricane Laura can take some comfort in the fact that whatever happens, Trump will stop by and lob some rolls of paper towels at them.