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The administrator of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Deanne Criswell alleged climate change for the deadly tornado outbreak over the weekend. She claimed that such disasters will be the new normal from now on. Criswell said, “This is going to be our new normal. The effects we are seeing of climate change are the crisis of our generation. We’re taking a lot of efforts at FEMA to work with communities to help reduce the impacts that we’re seeing from these severe weather events and help to develop system-wide projects that can help protect communities”. The comments of Criswell came after a tornado outbreak terrorized parts of the Midwest on Friday and Saturday.

More than 100 people were found dead and the deadly tornadoes left thousands without power throughout much of Kentucky, Illinois, and Arkansas. The Governor of Kentucky, Andrew Beshear said, “This is Kentucky’s most devastating tornado event in our history. Nothing that was standing in the direct line of this tornado is still standing”. The nation’s top emergency management official said such a severe and sustained outbreak of deadly storms this late in the year is unprecedented. But she pointed out that FEMA is doing everything it can to help people impacted by the storms. “I think there is still hope, right?”

Criswell also said, “We sent one of our federal urban search and rescue teams down to Kentucky. They arrived yesterday. They’ll be able to assist the localities with their ongoing rescue efforts. I think there is still hope, and we should continue to try to find as many people as we can”. The comments of Criswell came after President Biden said it was too early to tell whether climate change could have played a role in the outbreak. President Joe Biden said he would have the Environmental Protection Agency assess the possibility. These horrific tornadoes are unusual in December in the United States, tore a 365-kilometer path through Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky.