Michael Nutter on Harvey: ‘We Know from Climate Change that These Storms Will Be Worse and More Intense’

RUSH EXCERPT:

NUTTER: "And so if the president wants to focus on detail, he really should take a second look at the federal flood risk management standard that he just rolled back that was of course under President Obama. And since he’s focused on repealing everything that President Obama did, he might want to rethink that particular strategy because you will waste hundreds of millions of dollars rebuilding the to standards that already will not meet the current 100-year flood standard and we know from climate change that these storms will be worse and more intense. So this is a policy issue going forward that I hop the president and his administration focus on. But they need to get money on the ground now, working with mayor turner, working with mayor Landrieu in New Orleans, working with the mayor in Beaumont and the many other cities and towns that have been devastated through this. So it’s no time for politics. It is time for policy. It is time for action. We can’t do anything about what people did or didn’t do during the course of hurricane Sandy. This is about Harvey right now and about storms that will come in the few which are. Get those folks the money and the resources they need right now, no nonsense."